About TheJobCrowd Top 50 Companies For Graduates To Work For The Top 50 Companies For Graduates To Work For is a radical new approach to employer rankings, which list the best companies to work for. Chances are you’ve come across some of these lists before, you may have even used them to help you make job application decisions. If so, did you know that the majority of these rankings are based on student perception of who would be the best employers, rather than on the experience of graduates who actually work at these firms? We were pretty surprised to find this out as it doesn’t make much sense to us. If you are looking at a list of best employers, you probably want to see the companies who are actually great to work for, not who students think might be good to work for. So we decided to start a new way of ranking graduate employers. Rather than asking students: “Who do you think the best graduate employer is?” (which is what other employer rankings do), we have spent the last year asking graduate employees what they actually think of working for their company.
are however a great many firms, with less of a marketing budget or in less popular industries (some of whom you may not even have heard of!), who don’t appear in other guides but who give their graduates a fantastic experience. Many of these companies feature very highly in our rankings.
The result is an employer rankings which is entirely meritocratic. It ignores factors such as how well-known a company is or how much they spend on their recruitment marketing – both of which have a huge effect on other employer rankings. Our rankings look at only one thing: do a company’s graduate employees say they are a good employer?
We believe that our Top 50 provides a much better way to choose an employer who you will actually be really happy working for, so we hope you find it useful in helping you to make your own job application decisions.
Of course, many of the companies that feature in other employer rankings also provide graduate employees with a brilliant experience so a lot of them feature in our Top 50. There
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You can find out the full details on how the Top 50 is compiled in ‘How The Rankings Work’ on Page 7. And you can read every single review that we’ve collected, in full, on TheJobCrowd.com.