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If you are still on the lookout for a graduate job then recent research from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the financial services giant and top graduate employer, might give you a bit of encouragement as to where the graduate job market is headed.

After interviewing the chief executives of about 70 UK organisations, the PwC 13th Annual Global CEO Survey research found that over a third of them ‘hope to increase headcount in the next 12 months.’ Also, around two-thirds of the chief executives expected to up their spending on investment and training.

Those figures have got to be good news for the graduate job market as companies look for the best talent to help them progress in the future. Indeed, almost three quarters of the CEOs said that ‘a talented, well-skilled and well-educated workforce’ was essential to future competitiveness of their business.

The report also found that 85% of the UK chief executives canvassed were looking to overhaul the methods their organisations used to manage staff through change as a result of the economic downturn.

Partner and leader of human resource services at PwC, Michael Rendell, commented on the survey’s findings: It’s encouraging that CEOs are now prioritising the people agenda. Despite the stagnant labour market, there are always opportunities for the best people and some organisations have used the downturn to poach from competitors that failed to ring-fence top performers. As the population ages, organisations’ and countries’ prosperity will depend on an increasingly-limited number of talented people producing wealth so CEOs are right to be concerned about having the right people in the business.”

If you feel that you are a talented and would be the right person to fill a graduate job and help one of the big companies produce wealth in the future then have a look at the latest graduate positions that E4S have available at the moment.