A Year of Partnerships

Anticipating
Impact
How will AI change
early talent recruitment?
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AI Undergraduate of the Year Award
launches this Autumn with Ocado Group.
Supporting the Future of AI and
Data Science
• GTI has been appointed by the Office for Students (OfS) to help
broaden the diversity of talent in AI and data science in the UK.
• 2,000 scholarships available for students from underrepresented
groups to undertake a postgraduate conversion course in AI and data
science.
• Employers can sponsor or co-sponsor students, gaining access to a
national network of talent for future hires.
• Higher education providers who wish to bid for government funding
can get support from GTI to become part of a new ‘AI Skills
Community’.
groupgti.com/ai-scholarships
Students at targetconnect universities: subjects of study Students on targetjobs: subjects of study
861,661 students registered on
targetjobs want to work in a tech or science
related career…
Cibyl UK graduate survey 2022
Students studying computing:
• place more importance on innovation
than compared to average
• value continuous improvement &
learning more than average
Today’s agenda
Welcome
Simon Rogers, Chief Customer Officer, GTI
Economic update & predictions
Declan Curry, business and economics journalist and broadcaster
Student recruitment market update
Stephen Isherwood, CEO, Institute of Student Employers
Rise of the machines: Exploring graduate AI talent
Mike Hanbidge, Head of Employer Brand, Blackbridge Communications
AI and machine learning: Looking to the future
Priya Lakhani OBE, Founder CEO, CENTURY Tech
Economic update & predictions

Declan Curry, business and economics

journalist and broadcaster
Student recruitment market
update

Stephen Isherwood, CEO,

Institute of Student Employers
Virtual vs F2F
Virtual only, Attraction <18%
F2F only, Internships 40%<

Pay and reward

Increased salaries 51%
Offer sign-on bonus 34%
Interest low/free loan 24%
Relocation allowance 17%
Rise of the machines: exploring
the AI talent pipeline

Mike Hanbidge, Head of Employer Brand,

Blackbridge Communications
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$204 bn 15% 68%
invested in AI in 2025 Of UK companies have a Are looking to adopt AI
according to the component of AI in their processes
processes or services –
International Data equating to 432,000
Corporation companies according to
Government figures
What we think it can be

60k+
Cibyl data
60,000 + students
Cutting the data to ask AI-
related undergraduates
about salary expectations,
motivations and perceived
skillset and job search habits
230
Cibyl data
Tailored questioning around what
excites them about AI, what they
think about certain sectors
Who are they?

61% of students want over

half their job to be about AI
Who are they?

Business Management 6% 14%

Computer Scicence

Physical Sciences 30%

Education

Engineering
41%
Other (Design, History, Law, Maths, 5%
Social Science, Psycology)
Psychology) 4%
And where do they want to go?

41%

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See themselves as “problem Believe teamwork is a vital skill, Want to work on industry
solvers” – 7% higher than 12% less than undergraduates leading projects – the most
average in general often chosen career aspiration
Complex and real work excites them

“Transfer learning with neural networks” “Driverless cars”

“I want to work in the area of computer vision and AI” “Face recognition”

“Translation software so people can have a conversation” “AI diagnostics for telehealth”

“The use of BERT models and GPT-3 in NLP” “Causal AI”

People and Learning and Development

“I want to work with people l like” – 4%

“I want to work in an environment where I learn from my
colleagues” - 18%
52% of AI undergraduates see continuous improvement and
learning as a key personal value – 12% higher than
undergraduates in general.
Company

18% 24% 19%

Want to work for a company Believe a tech giant will offer Believe a tech start up will offer
with a clear social purpose them the best chance to fulfil them the best chance
(second most chosen their career aspirations
aspiration)
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16% 15%

14%
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10%

8%
6% 6%
6% 5%

4% 3% 3%
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Banking Energy Healthcare Retail Science/r&D Education Public sector Media and
Science/R&D Charity Law Accountancy Construction
advertising
Money – what they want vs what they expect

20% 19%
They are…

• Studying lots of different subjects

• Seeing AI as a skillset, not just a job family
• Wanting to work in London…
• …on complex, real world problems
• …in a knowledge house environment where they
can learn and improve from the people around them
• Salary expectant not money hungry
And you should…

• Create a sense of place

• Talk about the challenges
• Celebrate the individuals who are solving them
• If you are not pure play tech – sell the story and
then sell it again
• Create specific stories using a technical language
AI and machine learning: looking
to the future

Priya Lakhani OBE, Founder CEO,

CENTURY Tech
Every one of us is either
living with, working with
or building AI
 “Progress occurs when courageous,
skillful leaders seize the opportunity to
change things for the better”

Harry S. Truman
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data
“I never worry about action, but only
about inaction”

Winston Churchill
Thank you
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