Graduate Jobs

What Graduate Jobs does

Graduate Jobs (operating as graduate-jobs.com) is a UK-focused graduate recruitment job board founded in 1999 and registered as graduate-jobs.com Limited in England and Wales. The platform serves two primary sides of a marketplace: graduates and undergraduates seeking entry-level employment, and employers/recruiters seeking to fill graduate schemes, internships, and apprenticeships across engineering, sales, and management sectors. The company operates as part of the broader Graduatejobs Group, alongside wholly-owned subsidiaries GradTouch Limited, Gradcore Limited, and Smart Resourcing Solutions Limited, and related properties including gradtouch.com, gradcore.co.uk, assess.digital, smart-resourcing-solutions.com, and kaampus.com.

The core platform combines a job listings board with a candidate CV database, employer job-posting tools, CV search functionality, an anonymous graduate forum organized by industry sector, an interview review and ratings feature, and an editorial Top 50 Graduate Employers ranking. Technical components include candidate profiling, employer-facing CV search, scheduling for job postings, and Google single sign-on integration. Marketing is driven primarily through SEO, a career-advice blog, a graduate guide booklet, email alerts, the forum community, and careers fairs coverage.

The business model is a classic two-sided recruitment marketplace with freemium candidate access and employer-paid monetization. Revenue is generated from three streams: employer job postings (subscription/recurring), recruiter CV database access (subscription/recurring), and premium/featured employer listings (advertising). Specific pricing tiers are not publicly disclosed, and the company reports no external institutional investment or PE backing. At the data point captured, 381,891 graduates and undergraduates had published CVs to the site and 6,623 approved graduate recruiters were active on the platform, with 35 new jobs and internships posted in the trailing 30 days.

Name

Graduate Jobs

Legal name

graduate-jobs.com Limited

Website

https://graduate-jobs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

UK-focused graduate job board founded in 1999, connecting graduates and undergraduates with employers and recruitment agencies across engineering, sales, and management sectors via a two-sided marketplace with CV database, employer posting tools, and content community.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Recruitment / Job Board

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Career Services & Job Placement Platforms (Jobs, Recruiting, Employer Networks) (EDAFAMAM)

Keywords

• Graduate job board
• Online recruitment platform
• CV search database
• Employer job posting
• Internship listings

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Employer Job Postings: Employers and graduate recruitment agencies pay to post unlimited job listings on the platform, with features to schedule postings, target specific graduate segments (by sector, location, degree classification), and manage applications.
2. CV Database Access: Approved graduate recruiters can search and access graduate CVs, allowing employers to proactively reach out to potential candidates who have published their profiles on the platform.
3. Featured/Featured Employer Listings: Employers can purchase premium placement and visibility for their job listings and employer profiles on the platform, appearing prominently in job feeds and employer rankings.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Graduate-jobs.com operates an online job board platform that connects UK graduates and undergraduates with employers and graduate recruitment agencies. Employers and recruitment agencies pay to post unlimited job listings and access a CV database of over 381,891 published candidate profiles, while graduates use the platform free of charge to search for jobs, internships, and graduate schemes, create online CVs, and apply directly to employers.

Product overview

Graduate-jobs.com is a job board platform offering a unified service for UK graduates to find employment opportunities. The core platform consists of a job listings board (graduate-jobs.com), integrated with CV publishing tools enabling recruiters to discover candidates, an employer job posting system with CV search capabilities, a career advice and blog content section, an anonymous forum for peer discussions, interview review submissions, and Top 50 employer rankings. The platform has operated since 1999 and connects graduates with both direct employers and graduate recruitment agencies across various industry sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GradTouch: Part of the Graduatejobs Group of companies, operating gradtouch.com
• Gradcore
• Smart Resourcing Solutions
• kaampus
• assess.digital

Products and services

• Graduate Jobs Board Platform An online job board platform connecting UK graduates and undergraduates with employers offering graduate jobs, internships, and graduate schemes. Job listings are searchable by sector, location, popularity, and degree classification.
• Employer Job Posting Platform A paid subscription service enabling employers to post unlimited job listings with scheduling capabilities, filter visibility by graduate criteria (e.g., sector, location, degree classification), and manage applications. Employers can also receive CV applications directly.
• CV Database Access (Recruiter Search) A paid subscription service allowing approved graduate recruiters to search and access graduate CVs from a pool of over 381,891 published candidate profiles, enabling direct outreach to candidates identified as a fit for vacancies.
• Featured Employer Listings Premium placement and visibility service enabling employers to feature their job listings and employer profiles prominently in job feeds and employer rankings on the platform.

Quantifiable outcome

• 381,891 graduates and undergraduates have published their CVs to the site
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• graduatewomencoreGTM or Marketing Partnergraduatewomen is a partner dedicated to advancing gender diversity and empowering women in the workplace. Employers who are graduatewomen partners display a GW badge on their job listings, signaling their commitment to gender diversity. This partnership helps attract female graduates to participating employers.
• Spencer Ogden LtdminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAward-winning global energy and infrastructure sales recruitment company using the platform to advertise graduate opportunities. Established in 2010 with 13 offices and over 400 employees worldwide. Ranked 18 out of 50 in graduate employer rankings.
• Celsius Graduate RecruitmentminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSpecialist graduate recruitment agency providing graduate sales training and placement services. Has strong relationships with companies using their services on an exclusive basis. Ranked 32 out of 50 in graduate employer rankings.
• The Early Careers CompanyminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGraduate recruitment agency specializing in placing graduates across various sectors including legal (Soliciter Apprentice roles). Posts graduate opportunities on the platform.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• RateMyPlacement: UK-focused internship and placement platform. Comparable to Graduate-jobs.com in the internship portion of its offering, though narrower in scope and more student-year-up focused.

Regional players

• Graduateland: European graduate job platform active in multiple countries. Comparable in graduate-only positioning and CV-database model, but primarily serves continental European markets rather than the UK.

Direct peers

• Target Jobs: Long-established UK graduate recruitment platform with employer directories, advice content, and graduate scheme listings. Competes head-to-head with Graduate-jobs.com for UK graduate job seekers and enterprise graduate-recruitment budgets.
• Prospects (Prospects.ac.uk): UK higher-education careers service providing graduate job listings, employer profiles, and careers advice. Highly comparable in audience and content-led approach to Graduate-jobs.com, though operated on a non-profit basis.
• Milkround: UK graduate-focused job board owned by GTI Media. Directly comparable to Graduate-jobs.com in candidate segment (graduates and school leavers), product (job listings, employer profiles, advice content), and revenue model (employer job postings and CV database).

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: Professional network used heavily by both UK graduates seeking roles and recruiters sourcing candidates. Competes on candidate engagement, CV visibility, and recruiter outreach, though it does not position itself as a graduate-specialist board.
• Indeed UK: Global aggregator job board with dominant UK traffic. Competes for the same employer recruitment spend and graduate candidate audience, with significantly greater scale and a 'post and pay-per-applicant' model that pressures traditional job-board pricing.
• CV-Library: Major UK job board with a large CV database and recruiter search functionality. Direct competitor in the CV-search and employer-posting model that Graduate-jobs.com uses, but with a much broader experience-level focus.
• Reed: One of the largest UK recruitment platforms and job boards. Overlaps with Graduate-jobs.com on graduate job postings and CV search, but operates as a broad horizontal player across all experience levels rather than specializing in graduates.
• Totaljobs: Large UK horizontal job board owned by StepStone. Overlaps with Graduate-jobs.com in entry-level and graduate job postings and recruiter CV search, though it serves a much broader experience-level audience.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/graduatejobsUK
• Facebookfacebook.com/graduatejobsuk

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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