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Your People, Your Planet & You
Who are we ?
Graduate Planet CIC is a Social Enterprise recruitment consultancy designed to support environmental sustainability.
With over 20 years experience, we are passionate about delivering the best candidates in the marketplace to our clients, ensuring a quality driven, efficient process. As a value led organisation, we also fund and deliver measurable social and environmental impact within the community.
Our business model enables our clients to demonstrate their commitment to communities and the wider environment. Illustrating how easy it is for people to make a real difference, through interesting, practical and engaging solutions.
Working together, we can solve climate change
What do we do ?
We reinvest 100% of the profit created through the recruitment process into local environmental projects that help to combat climate change
Supporting the community
We work with local & national charity partners plus corporate, community and school volunteers to create impact
Our impact includes
• Planting trees & greenspaces
• Educating school children in environmental sustainability
• Supporting renewable energy initiatives
Improving our clients social and environmental impact and engagement
Type of roles we support
Engineering, H&S, Design, Construction,
Manufacturing, HR, Sales, Marketing, CSR,
Logistics, Supply Chain, Finance, Banking, Data and Commercial Office
Access to candidates
We know how to find the best people in the
marketplace. We are experienced in building long term relationships with our clients across a range of industry sectors
Over 20 years experience
We have a database of 30,000 candidates
Access to multiple job boards, strong industry networks & we attract
more candidates due to our value led approach
We really listen and adapt
Although we are small, we are mighty, we work with large organisations
and really listen to understand your needs, expectations, industry
sector & company culture
Value for money
Our business model attracts a greater choice of candidates, improves
employee retention & mental health and offers measurable social impact to clients & communities
Why work with us ?
We source permanent and contract, graduate calibre talent across the UK
What can we bring to your supply chain?
With the rise of Millennials and Generation Z, candidates are now more likely to ask what a company has to offer in terms of it’s values rather than career opportunities.
Due to the value led nature of Graduate Planet, we are able to attract a much larger pool candidates who are socially & environmentally driven.When headhunting, we’ve found potential candidates are more receptive & much more likely to engage with roles as a result of our business model.
Being involved in this process illustrates your social and environmental commitment to your existing employees which ultimately increases staff loyalty and retention.
Our corporate tree planting & educational volunteering opportunities provide an excellent way of engaging your new and existing employees in the positive impact you are creating, one they will remember.
It’s now recognised that messing about with soil increases people’s mental health, this means that planting trees also creates a happy workforce.
You can use your recruitment budget to cover your marketing spend.
Added Extras
Values Impact
Supporting over 50% of the Sustainable
Development Goals
We work with a verified offsetting service if you
wish to plant a large number of trees
Support AwardsRecruitment
Member of TEAM who provide free Legal, HR
and IT services
If we discover a role that we cannot fill, we
can turn to Tri or TEAM for support
Part of the PwC Entrepreneur Club
We have an Unltd and a PwC Mentor who
both provide us with regular professional advice and support
Member of SE UK and able to benefit from
their advice
Member of the Birmingham Business
Charter which measures our impact
Winner of the ‘Woman Who Achieves’ award
FSB ‘Ethical New Business’ Finalist
C&W SME ‘Best New Business’ Area Finalist
What do our customers think ?
“I find Kate to be very engaging, trustworthy, and dependable. She has a wealth of experience in the recruiting field of social enterprise and environment, so she has contacts in many of the right places to assist people at all levels. In addition, she enjoys and is very effective in assisting all level of executives and CSR specialists along their career path. Kate is definitely a recruiter you want on your side.”Aris Derksen Director of Global Expansion Toast AleMore Testimonials
Kate is the best recruitment consultant I have ever dealt with. She is friendly, proactive and efficient and helped me thoroughly throughout the recruitment process. Kate always goes the extra mile to ensure that her clients are dealt with in a professional manner and listens to there needs to find the perfect fit for their future career. It is refreshing to find a recruitment professional who takes the time to understand your needs and to help you throughout the entire process from application, through the interviews and once employed. I would highly recommend Kate and her services to anyone.“ Bridget Healy - HR - Heart of England Mencap
"Working with Graduate Planet has been extremely effective from the word go. They understood our business and recruitment needs really well and whilst working with a limited brief, they found us some exceptional candidates. In our previous experiences, recruitment can be quite stressful and time consuming. They managed the whole process for us and removed all of the hassle, leaving us free to focus on the interviews, enabling us to find the right fit for our business. We would thoroughly recommend Graduate Planet to everyone and we very much look forward to working with them again in the future." Mike Boyden - Director of Bellagio Stone
We worked with Graduate Planet on a Commercial Directors role and made a great hire. It’s been a real pleasure to be part of the Graduate Planet journey and to be the beneficiary of the great talent you have found for Belu.” Karen Lynch –CEO - Belu Water Ltd
How do we create sustainability?
To help create environmental sustainability we need to shift people’s feelings of apathy & powerlessness to one of nurturing, hope & possibility.
In order to achieve this, together we need to:
Demonstrate how easy it is to make a difference.
Provide practical, interesting hands-on solutions
Reinstate people’s connection with nature
Spark a sense of purpose and possibility
Educate the next generation in sustainability solutions
Facilitate renewable energy opportunities
Create a positive social impact in the community
Create an environmental movement within business
Our 6 Charity Partners
Each project is in a local area of your choice and can be tailored to meet your individual needs.
Enabling you to shine a spotlight on your social and environmental impact
Tree Planting Charities
Planting trees andgreenspaces in your local
area with volunteers
Educational Charities
Delivering environmental sustainability workshops
at your local school
Homelessness & Green Therapy Charities
Reducing isolation andloneliness through planting
We make sure that the projects are innovative and newsworthy, sometimes encouraging well known people to attend, which is great for both the volunteers and for increasing media coverage.
Tree Planting
The Next Generation
Education in sustainability Connection with nature Sense of achievement Confidence building
More career opportunities
Homeless Volunteers
Community engagement Reduced loneliness
Sense of achievement Improved mental and
physical health
Corporate Volunteers
Employee engagement Improved mental health Sociable, fun & outdoors Sense of purpose/control Regular options available
With the help of our charity partners we planet trees and greenspaces in our clients local area with a choice of 3 volunteering options
Why do we do it ?
At 13 per cent, the UK has one of the lowest rates of forest coverage compared to the 44 per cent average in Europe. There has never been a more important
time to ensure that we plant more and protect what we have.
We now know from geological records that increasing CO2 levels are the biggest influence on climate change, trees specialise in removing
excess CO2 from our atmosphere.
➢ On a frosty December day we brought together over 85 corporate & community volunteers to plant 1000 trees to create a Honeybee wood
➢ David Bradley from Harry Potter came along which made the volunteers happy and it made the news
➢ This event raised people’s awareness of their ability to make a positive impact, it will reduce CO2 levels & provide homes for insects & wildlife.
➢ It was a great corporate volunteering opportunity, offering exercise, fresh air and a sense of purpose, increasing employee engagement and retention.
“Inspirational people making a difference. I just think it’s great that young people are aware and are doing something about it.” David Bradley
Tree Planting - Case Study with the Forest of Hearts
➢ Following the placement of a Data Technical Specialist, we created an Environmental Sustainability STEM Day workshop in Warwick near to our clients head office.
➢ The smallpeice Trust asked 60 year secondary school children to imagine that they were on an island.
➢ Working in teams they carried out fun hands-on design & build projects.
➢ Solving sustainability energy issues, they competed to design and construct a wind turbine.
➢ Corporate volunteers came along to interact and present.
➢ These workshops develop creative thinking, time management, team work, problem-solving skills, enterprise and social skills.
➢ It also supports the National Curriculum, Specialist STEM status
➢ This increased employee enthusiasm, commitment and loyalty, it also highlighted the business in the local community
School Education WorkshopsCase Study - Smallpeice Trust & SPS International
➢ As a result of filling Belu’s Head of Sales role, we financially supported the UK’s largest community solar farm.
➢ The HECE will create enough energy to supply 4600 homes each year.
➢ The farm will donate up to £2.7 million to good causes over the projects’ lifetime, improving the health of elderly & vulnerable people living in cold, damp homes or suffering from fuel poverty.
➢ Belu chose this project because of the ongoing social and environmental impact it will create
➢ This impact was published in several publications, on Twitter, Linked In and company websites demonstrating Belu’s involvement.
Renewable Energy InitiativesCase study – with Belu Water & HECE
✓ Your attraction of new staff
✓ Your employee loyalty & retention levels
✓ Improved employee mental health
✓ Your customer engagement
✓ Measurable ed CSR and SDG impact
✓ Your marketing and PR budget
✓ Future environmental sustainability
✓ Supporting local charities & volunteers
✓ Improving your local community
✓ Preparing the next generation for the future
✓ Changing people’s attitudes towards the environment
Consider using Graduate Planet for your recruitment needs
By working together, we can have a positive impact on:
