Researching The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers
employer represented a real renaissance for the entire accounting & professional services sector. Twenty years ago, a career in accountancy was often regarded as a safe, traditional employment choice, whereas today’s profession is viewed in a very different light. The training required to become a chartered accountant is now seen as a prized business qualification, and the sector’s leading firms are regularly described as ‘dynamic’ and ‘international’ by undergraduates looking for their first job after university – and continue to dominate the annual graduate employer rankings. A total of 237 different organisations have now appeared within The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers since its inception, and thirty-six of these graduate employers hold the inspiring record of being ranked within the Top 100 in all twenty-six editions since 1999. The most consistent performers have been PwC, KPMG and the Civil Service, each of which have never been lower than 10th place in the league table. The NHS has also had a formidable record, appearing in every top ten since 2003, while the
figure for graduates in 2000) and a much-talked- about £10,000 bonus, helping to assure the firm’s popularity, irrespective of its corporate branding. In 2003, after two dismal years in graduate recruitment when vacancies for university-leavers dropped by more than a fifth following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the Civil Service was named the UK’s leading graduate employer. Just twelve months later it was displaced by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting and professional services firm formed from the merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand in 1998. At the time, the firm was the largest private sector recruiter of graduates, with an intake in 2004 of more than a thousand trainees. Now known simply as PwC, the firm remained at number one for an impressive fifteen years, increasing its share of the student vote from 5 per cent in 2004 to more than 10 per cent in 2007, and fighting off the stiffest of competition from rivals Deloitte in 2008, when just seven votes separated the two employers. PwC’s reign as the UK’s leading graduate
Number Ones, Movers & Shakers in the Top 100
NUMBER ONES NUMBER ONES 1999 ANDERSEN CONSULTING 2000 ANDERSEN CONSULTING
2003 ROLLS-ROYCE (UP 37 PLACES) 2004 J.P. MORGAN (UP 29 PLACES) 2005 TEACH FIRST (UP 22 PLACES) 2006 GOOGLE (UP 32 PLACES) 2009 CADBURY (UP 48 PLACES) 2010 ASDA (UP 41 PLACES) 2011 CENTRICA (UP 41 PLACES) 2012 NESTLÉ (UP 44 PLACES) 2013 DFID (UP 40 PLACES) 2007 PFIZER (UP 30 PLACES) 2008 CO-OPERATIVE GROUP (UP 39 PLACES) 2014 TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (UP 36 PLACES) 2015 DIAGEO, NEWTON (UP 43 PLACES) 2016 BANK OF ENGLAND (UP 34 PLACES) 2017 CANCER RESEARCH UK (UP 38 PLACES) 2001 EUROPEAN COMMISSION (UP 36 PLACES) HIGHEST CLIMBING EMPLOYERS 2000 CAPITAL ONE (UP 32 PLACES) HIGHEST CLIMBING EMPLOYERS 1999 SCHLUMBERGER (UP 13 PLACES) 2002 WPP (UP 36 PLACES)
HIGHEST NEW ENTRIES 2000 MORGAN STANLEY (34th) HIGHEST NEW ENTRIES 1999 PFIZER (31st)
2003 CIVIL SERVICE 2002 ACCENTURE 2001 ACCENTURE
2001 MARCONI (36th)
2002 GUINNESS UDV (44th)
2003 ASDA (40th)
2004 PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS 2005 PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS 2006 PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS 2007 PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS 2008 PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS 2009 PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS 2010 PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS
2004 BAKER & MCKENZIE (61st)
2005 PENGUIN (70th) 2006 FUJITSU (81st)
2007 BDO STOY HAYWARD (74th)
2008 SKY (76th)
2009 BDO STOY HAYWARD (68th) 2010 SAATCHI & SAATCHI (49th)
2011 PWC 2012 PWC 2013 PWC 2014 PWC 2015 PWC 2016 PWC 2017 PWC 2018 PWC
2011 APPLE (53rd)
2012 EUROPEAN COMMISSION (56th)
2013 SIEMENS (70th) 2014 FRONTLINE (76th) 2015 DANONE (66th) 2016 SANTANDER (63rd)
2018 ASOS (52nd) 2017 DYSON (52nd)
2018 MCDONALD’S (UP 30 PLACES) 2019 POLICE NOW (UP 43 PLACES)
2020 CIVIL SERVICE 2019 CIVIL SERVICE 2021 CIVIL SERVICE 2022 CIVIL SERVICE
2020 CHANNEL FOUR (77th) 2019 UNLOCKED (49th)
2020 DLA PIPER/WHITE & CASE (UP 32 PLACES) 2021 CHARITYWORKS (UP 45 PLACES) 2022 JAGUAR LAND ROVER (UP 30 PLACES)
2021 BDO (49th)
2022 BMW GROUP (66th) 2023 DLA PIPER (51st)
2024 PWC 2023 PWC
2024 BLACKROCK (UP 42 PLACES) 2023 UNLOCKED (UP 45 PLACES)
2024 ITV (46th)
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