Market challenges
Attracting graduates:
- Everybody is fishing in the same pond
- War for talent is increasing
- Establishing a positive employer brand is costly
- Negative experiences can have a long lasting negative impact
Selecting the best graduates:
- Interviewing graduates without relevant work experience is difficult
- Typical recruiting practices are about as accurate as flipping a coin
- It is difficult to predict who will become a top performer
High costs:
- Costs per hire are typically +$5,000
- Marketing campaigns are costly
- Campus involvement takes time
- Onboarding, training & guidance is costly and time intensive
- Bad hires typically cost +$25,000

Program benefits
- Fewer bad hires = real dollars saved
- Reduced turnover
- More candidates that fit manager expectations
- Tangible tools for HR and managers to be more effective in their role
- A better manager-employee relationship
- Increased employee satisfaction
- Higher return on all your Campus Recruitment investments
- Get more out of your budget
- More effective career planning
- Quantitative and measurable results
The Sommer Survey® will reveal tangible, work related features about someone’s performance on the job.
By using the Sommer Survey you will know:
- what makes graduates stay or leave
- what makes graduates perform in your organization
- what managers expect from these graduates
- how your graduate’s strategy matches the business
- how graduates understand their role and priorities
- how to attract more suitable candidates
- how to interview graduates for necessary job criteria
- how to get suitable candidates to join you instead of the competition
- how to get the most out of each graduate
Program setup
Graduates complete the Sommer Survey® 3 times in the first year, each time for a different purpose.
Pre-employment or at start
Mid-year evaluation (after 4-6 months)
End of year evaluation (after 10-12 months)
Purpose
- Gain insight in their decision strategy to get to success on the job
- Zero-point measurement
Purpose
- Insight in their updated strategy now that they know the job
- Create benchmark
Purpose
- Fine tune benchmark
- Define essential features for new candidates
Output:
- Concise report for managers: get to know your new employee
- Manager vs graduates comparison (team or individual)
- Recruitment analysis: common behavioral features among recruits
Output:
- Performance appraisal report for managers: behavior change manual
- Communication suggestions to attract high performing graduates
- Suggested interview questions for next year’s graduates
Output:
- Comparison report: evaluating how the graduate has grown on the job
- Refined benchmark that indicates high performance
- Suggestions to increase Campus Recruitment effectiveness
This program is easy to set up, cost effective and practically risk-free.
Get in touch with us now for more information or to get started.