These are companies that graduates aspire to work for
JOBURG – About 2 052 candidates participated in the online questionnaire.
Discovery, Price Water House Coopers (PWC), BMW, Mckinsey & Company and Sasol are among the best companies that South African graduates aspire to work for after leaving university.
This is according to the South African Graduate Employers Association (Sagea), which recently revealed the winners of the 2016 Sagea Employers Awards announcing the most favoured companies by students across 24 sectors.
The awards are decided entirely by successful job hunters, who have received confirmed job offers from graduate employers. In its seventh successive year, these awards are developed as part of the Sagea Candidate Insights Survey carried out on behalf of the association by the specialist student and graduate research company, High Fliers Research Limited.
The survey is conducted on an annual basis to assist Sagea members to review the success of their graduate campaigns and to help plan their future recruitment programmes.
The research took place from March to May 2016, using an online questionnaire and during this time 2 052 candidates responded.
Each candidate was asked to name up to two organisations whom they felt had the best graduate programmes in specific sectors or industry groups with which they were familiar.
The leading employer and two runners-up were recorded across 24 separate sectors and this formed the basis of the Graduate Employers of Choice 2016.
Here is the list of the top employers of choice in 2016:
Accountancy – Price Water House Coopers (PWC)
Automotive – BMW
Charity or voluntary – National Council of SPCAs
Chemical and pharmaceutical – Sasol
Commercial and retail banking – Standard Bank
Consulting – Accenture
Consulting (management) – Mckinsey & Company
Engineering or industrial – Sasol
Fast moving consumer goods – Unilever
Health – Discovery
Insurance – Discovery
Investment banking – Investec
IT Hardware or Software – Microsoft
Law – Webber Wentzel
Leisure – Sun International
Manufacturing – Unilever
Media – Media24
Mining and resources – Anglo American
Property – Pam Golding properties
Public sector – National Treasury
Retail – Woolworths
Telecommunications – Vodacom
Transport or logistics – Imperial Logistics
Utilities – Eskom
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