Employers should be given tax breaks to help hire more graduate workers, according to leading body.
The Association of Graduate Recuiters (AGR) has launched a manifesto to highlight its vision of higher education and how employers could play an "active role" in that development.
Speaking to Personnel Today, AGR chief executive Carl Gilleard wanted financial incentives for employers to offer more posts to graduate candidates.
However, he admitted that whilst the AGR was yet to work out the "exact level" of tax break, such measures should cover the first year of a graduate''s employment.
Mr Gilleard said: "To recruit someone is an expensive process, particularly if you intend to develop that person, as people recruiting graduates will do.
"Many employers can find work for people to do but what prevents them going forward is the cost of hiring that individual."
Research, last month, from the AGR believed that vacancies would increase in 2011 after two stagnant years including an 8.9 per cent drop in jobs available to graduates this year.
Graduate salaries remained stagnant at an average of £25,000 across the UK.
Posted by Helen Smith
