The Venture Graduate Scheme aims to enhance productivity, innovation and economic growth by linking talented graduates with ambitious businesses in the Cardiff Capital Region.
This is done by offering businesses a range of free services to overcome barriers to recruitment, including human resource support and region-wide marketing of their role, while graduates on the scheme get to participate in a coherent graduate scheme and complete a fully funded internationally recognised ILM qualification, improving employability skills and career prospects of our Venture Graduates.
Nicola Somerville, who works for the Cardiff Capital Region City Deal Team chats to Business News Wales about the Scheme.
Nicola said:
“The graduate scheme is a fantastic offer that we have available for SME’s across the 10 local authorities. We give them support, engagement and encourage [businesses] to take on a graduate.”
She adds that the scheme will bring “all the excitement that a graduate brings” to South East Wales.
The aim of the Venture Graduate Scheme is to ensure that the Cardiff Capital Region is an attractive destination for graduates to begin their careers, retaining talent within the region as well as enabling business growth through having a skilled and driven workforce.
After launching the Scheme, Nicola said the response has been ‘absolutely fantastic’ and the first cohort was received very well.
She states that although the Venture Graduate Scheme works in partnership with the universities in South East Wales, the team are not ‘exclusive’ to those graduates.
“For us, it is very much about making sure that we can pull in talent as well as keeping the talent here as well.”
Although the Venture Graduate Scheme is fairly new, we can’t wait to see what new talent it brings in the future…
