NextGen Career Solutions runs permanent searches across UK graduate, apprentice and early-career roles. Junior office, tech, marketing, sales, customer service, HR and operations - placed direct, with the same care a senior search gets.
Most graduate and trainee roles get blast-listed off a job board. We do not work that way. NextGen runs the same partnership-led process for a £24k apprentice we run for a senior search - briefed once properly, sourced from network first, vetted before introduction.
Junior hires live or die on culture fit and motivation. We dig into how the team learns, what onboarding looks like, who the line manager is, and what kind of energy actually thrives. Your shortlist gets calibrated to that.
Right-to-work, references where applicable, qualifications, gap explanations and motivations all confirmed. The shortlist that lands in your inbox is what you act on, not what you start chasing.
The person who picks up your call runs the whole search - briefing, sourcing, vetting, offer, mobilisation, and the day-90 check-in. No researcher in the back room.
If your need sits next to one of these, ask. Our network is built for the junior end of the market - the candidates other agencies skim past on their way to the senior brief.
Recent graduates from Russell Group, redbrick and modern UK universities. Generalist and discipline-specific schemes, rotational programmes, direct hires into commercial functions.
Level 3 to Level 7 apprenticeship hires across business admin, customer service, digital marketing, data, software and management. Placed against your levy strategy.
School leavers, college leavers, gap-year returners, career switchers in their first three years. The candidates with the most growth still in front of them.
Office administrators, executive assistants in training, receptionists, office coordinators, document controllers, junior project support.
Junior developers, software apprentices, QA testers, IT support analysts, data apprentices, cyber early-careers hires, junior product roles.
Marketing assistants, content creators, social media coordinators, SEO juniors, junior brand assistants, paid-media trainees, marketing apprentices.
Customer service representatives, account coordinators, complaints handlers, technical support trainees, customer success apprentices.
SDRs, BDRs, junior account managers, sales apprentices, lead generation reps, customer success early-careers, telesales graduates.
HR assistants, talent coordinators, recruitment administrators, learning & development apprentices, people-team support, junior HRBPs.
Operations coordinators, junior project managers, operations apprentices, supply chain analysts, business operations support, ops graduates.
We move at the pace early-careers hiring needs - quick to start, deliberate where it matters, predictable from brief to start date.
One call to lock the role, the team, the manager, the salary band, the offer process and the must-have qualities. We come prepared, not script-reading.
Network first, then targeted outreach across grad schemes, apprenticeship boards, university channels and our active early-careers pool.
Three to five candidates, ranked against the brief with a short written note on motivation, fit and notice. Right-to-work and references confirmed before introduction.
We coordinate the offer, manage counter-offer pressure, line up the start date and any pre-employment checks, and check in at week 2, 6 and 12.
UK early-careers hiring is messy. Job boards drown employers in unfit applications, university careers fairs are seasonal, and most generalist agencies do not run the junior end with the same care as the senior end. NextGen Career Solutions sits in that gap. We run permanent searches for graduates, apprentices and trainees with the same partnership-led process we would run for a director-level brief.
Our clients are UK SMEs, mid-market companies and the UK arms of international employers building a young workforce on purpose. The roles range from school-leaver apprentices through to direct-hire grad schemes for commercial, technical and operational functions.
HR business partners, talent leads, hiring managers and founders who want to build a young pipeline that holds. If you have ever paid an agency for a graduate hire and watched the junior leave inside six months, you know exactly why we exist.
Senior leadership above £100k, healthcare clinical, legal partner search, and pure white-collar tech leadership sit best with sector specialists. We will tell you within one call if your brief is not a good fit so you can place it where it lands fastest.