GradTouch

What GradTouch does

GradTouch is a UK-focused graduate recruitment platform operating in partnership with the long-established graduate-jobs.com brand, which was founded in 1999. The platform serves two user groups: graduates and undergraduates searching for entry-level positions, internships, and graduate schemes, and employers/recruiters seeking access to graduate talent. Its core product is a self-serve web-based job board accessible at graduate-jobs.com, featuring a CV publishing service that has accumulated 381,889 published candidate CVs and has onboarded 6,623 approved graduate recruiters. The platform also offers an employer directory, a graduate-schemes directory with an annual 'Top 50 Graduate Employers' ranking, a graduatewomen vertical, and careers-advice content including blogs, interview guides, case studies, and careers-fair listings. Authentication is handled via Google SSO and email/password.

The underlying technology is a conventional online job board and recruitment platform supporting job search, filtering by sector, location, salary, closing date, and employer type, application management, recruiter job posting, and recruiter-side CV database access. No proprietary AI/ML, mobile apps, or API/SDK surface is disclosed; the only documented integration is Google Sign-in for authentication.

The business model is advertising-driven on the employer side: graduate recruiters and employers pay to post job listings (with standard and featured/promoted tiers implied by on-site banner advertising from BAE Systems, Lidl, TPP, and Spencer Ogden) and to access the CV database of candidates. The service is free for graduates. Customer segments span direct enterprise relationships (BAE Systems, Lidl, TPP), specialist graduate recruitment agencies (This Is Prime, Celsius Graduate Recruitment, Spencer Ogden), and SME/long-tail employers. Distribution is mixed: self-serve SMB/individual onboarding for recruiters, direct enterprise sales to large employers, and channel relationships with recruitment agencies. The company is privately held with no disclosed funding, parent company, or leadership team.

Name

GradTouch

Website

https://gradtouch.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

GradTouch operates a UK-focused graduate job board, unified with graduate-jobs.com, connecting 381,889 graduate CV holders with 6,623 recruiters and enterprise employers via self-serve listings, a CV database, and careers-advice content.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Graduate Recruitment Platform

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131), Employment Services (5613)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Internships, Externships & Work-Based Learning Placement (EDAMAKAB)

Keywords

• Graduate job board
• Recruitment platform
• CV database
• Employer advertising
• Graduate schemes

Headquarters

HQ city

Manchester

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Employer Job Postings: Graduate recruiters and employers pay to post job listings on the platform, reaching a database of 381,889 graduates and undergraduates. Job posting options include standard listings and featured/promoted positions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

GradTouch operates a UK graduate-focused online job board that aggregates graduate jobs, internships, placements, and schemes posted by employers and recruitment agencies. Job seekers register, publish CVs, and receive personalised job alerts, while paying customers are employers and agencies that post listings and access the graduate CV database via application packages.

Product overview

GradTouch operates as a unified graduate careers platform combining job listings, employer directories, and candidate services. The core offering is a job board (graduate-jobs.com) that aggregates graduate positions, internships, and schemes from hundreds of employers, supplemented by a CV publishing service allowing recruiters to discover candidates directly. The platform also features employer directories, career advice content, and a Top 50 graduate employers ranking. GradTouch and graduate-jobs.com have combined resources to provide a single integrated platform for students and graduates seeking career opportunities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• GradTouch Graduate Job Board Online job board aggregating graduate jobs, industrial placements, internships, and graduate schemes posted by UK employers and recruitment agencies; used by final-year students and recent graduates to search and apply for roles.
• Application Packages for Employers and Recruiters Paid packages purchased by employers, graduate scheme providers, and recruitment agencies to post graduate jobs and access the platform's graduate CV database; supports branded and enhanced recruiter listings.
• Graduate CV Database and Profile Service Self-service graduate profile and CV publishing service for final-year students and graduates, providing 381,889 published CVs searchable by employers and recruiters.
• Graduate Recruiter Directory and Employer Reviews Directory of 6,623 approved graduate recruiters with employer profile pages, graduate-scheme listings, and reviews, used by graduates to research employers and by recruiters for brand visibility.

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• graduate-jobs.comcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGradTouch and graduate-jobs.com have teamed up as one platform, combining their resources and expertise to create a unified experience for students and graduates to search and apply for graduate careers. The merger brings together GradTouch's audience with graduate-jobs.com's established platform and employer relationships, offering a wider range of career opportunities from hundreds of employers.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Graduate Prospects (Prospects.ac.uk): UK higher-education-affiliated graduate career services platform providing job listings, employer directories, and career advice to graduates. Closely aligned audience and editorial content strategy with GradTouch/graduate-jobs.com.
• CV-Library: Major UK job board with CV database access for recruiters, directly overlapping with graduate-jobs.com's recruiter-side model and self-serve job posting mechanics. Comparable UK job-search traffic and recruiter product structure.
• Milkround: UK's leading graduate and student job board, operating a near-identical two-sided model targeting graduates, internships, and entry-level schemes. Most directly comparable competitor for the same UK candidate and recruiter audience.
• Target Jobs: UK graduate careers platform offering graduate jobs, schemes, and internships alongside employer directories and career advice. Overlaps with GradTouch/graduate-jobs.com across product, audience, and employer-side value proposition.

Broad incumbents

• Totaljobs: Major UK generalist job board with broad employer and candidate reach, including graduate listings. Operates a similar self-serve + CV database model but at much larger scale and across all experience levels.
• Indeed: Global job search incumbent aggregating millions of listings, including graduate jobs. Competes for the same candidate search demand and recruiter employer budgets, with massive scale advantages and free-to-post listings.
• LinkedIn: Professional networking platform with dominant recruiter-side candidate search and integrated job listings including graduate roles. Increasingly the default platform for UK graduate job seekers, posing both substitution and partnership dynamics.
• Reed.co.uk: UK's largest generalist job board (part of Reed Online Limited), offering job listings, CV search, and recruitment services across all experience levels including graduate. Comparable product mechanics but much broader portfolio beyond graduate niches.
• Glassdoor: Global job listings and company-reviews platform with significant graduate audience reach. Comparable job-posting and candidate-discovery mechanics with an additional employer-brand research layer graduates use early in their search.

Regional players

• Jobs.ac.uk: UK-focused job board for academic, research, and science-related roles including graduate and entry-level positions. Comparable UK-only two-sided recruitment model with overlapping candidate audience in technical/graduate segments.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks2 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/gradtouch
• Facebookfacebook.com/gradtouch
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gradtouch

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors2 records

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M&A2 records

Investments

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