About us
A bit about what drives us, our values and history
Become an employer of choice & hire the next generation
Build brand awareness, engagement and precision. Hire brilliant apprentices and graduates
Platform for connecting with students & recent grads
From the start of study to career discovery and applications, targetconnect supports employers to engage across its university network of over 75 careers services as well as GTI’s AI-optimised public sites, targetjobs and gradireland.
Select your ideal audience including courses, skills, locations, and universities of interest. Promote jobs, apprentices, graduate schemes, internships, placements, projects and work experience as well as engage in on campus events, careers fairs and workshops.
Self-serve or work with our Customer Success team, who are experts in messaging, content creation, platform features, performance attribution and analytics to optimise your hiring results and costs.
Range of subscriptions
Early and all-year-round awareness
Become a natural first choice, engaging from day 1 of study before the student blur of rush of late stage applications.
Build your brand
Build your brand and understanding of your sector, career paths and opportunities to spark interest, gain followers and registrations of interest and broaden your EDI appeal.
Range of subscription levels
Select from Essentials, Standard, Professional, Enterprise, Partnership subscriptions to tailor your activity and exposure.
University careers, public sites, social media
Connect across career services, organic Google search, organic AI results (including Chat GPT and Claude) and social media through a single partner and platform.
Unparallelled student user numbers
2.1m students, 7,200 career advice experts, 650,000 career adviser meetings and 1.1m event registrations each year. Broadcast or target for campaign effectiveness and return on investment.
Sponsor Career AI
Build trust and cut-through by appearing in student AI tools covering career inspiration, CV reviews and practice interviews.
Message students
Automated nudges to targeted student groups to inspire and encourage engagement from diverse groups. From emails and SMS to push notifications and in platform targetmesage.
Reporting and analytics
Track campaign performance by student group to make adjustments and optimise attraction performance.
Attribution Tool
Understand where your candidates came from using the platform’s attribution tool to better measure Return on Investment (ROI).
Careers services reach for trusted advice
targetconnect is one of the leading platforms used by career services to support student skills and awareness of employers, digitally and via expert human advice. Engage via one set of screens in a few clicks.
AI-optimised public sites
GTI’s public sites are large scale advise and opportunities resources, discoverable via traditional and AI search.
Events and programmes
Complement your online activity with pre-screened face-to-face events, programmes and awards for students. From society leaders, neurodiversity in law, females into tech, self-made in law, females in finance to Future Apprentice of the Year and Undergraduate of the Year.
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Career AI
Brand sponsorship of leading edge AI-tools for students distributed across careers services, targetjobs and gradireland.
Gradsims
Virtual work insights to build brand, broaden interest, give experience to students at scale and act as a signal of motivation in screening and assessment.
targetmessage
Encourage interest from students who may not realise you’re from them through in platform messaging and emails. Increase diversity and attract talent from other sectors, regions and places of study.
Social media and LinkedIn
Managed and automated boosting and re-targeting across socials for school, college and university level candidates.
Reporting and analytics
Track, measure and benchmark performance with live insights to optimise performance and measure ROI.
Frequently asked questions
We’d love to chat so please get in touch or take a look at these FAQs.
Do you work with employers and educators?
We work with both employers and educators to support emerging talent employability, skills development and hiring.
How targetable is the platform?
Choose from a range of data points from skills and locations to universities, school regions, year groups, social mobility and EDI groups.
Are there screening feature to reduce application volume?
Targeting in the platform reduces unqualified applications. Also, check out targetapply for conversation pre-screening to support candidates and reduce unmotivated and automated applications before your full Application Tracking System (ATS), screening and assessment process kicks-in.
Is it self-service or managed service?
Both – you can choose, depending on your preference and subscription level.
Do you support simple jobs posting?
Yes, the platform supports 1 job ad to high impact brand building and multi-programme attraction.
Are you a recruitment agency?
GTI deliver a digital platform (self-service or managed service). Also check out Gradbay, GTI’s GenZ recruitment agency and its Recruitment Process Outsourcing capability.
Are you an RPO service provider?
We also provide RPO services. Check out Gradbay, GTI’s GenZ recruitment agency and its Recruitment Process Outsourcing capability
Get in touch to discover more
Let us know your brief and we’ll suggest a winning approach.
