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06/04/2011

Savills Named As Top Property Graduate Employer

Savills has retained its number one graduate employer titles in The Times and TARGETjobs National Recruitment Awards and is the first real estate firm to be featured in The Times top 100 graduate employer league table.

The global real estate services provider has retained the award for The Times Graduate Employer of Choice in property for the fifth consecutive year in the award’s five year history. At The Times ‘Graduate Employers of Choice’ Recruitment Awards on 29 March 2011 Savills achieved first position in the property category, Foxtons and Knight Frank were runners up.

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The world’s largest graduate recruitment awards hosted by TARGETjobs on 31st March 2011 ranked Savills the most popular graduate recruiter in property ahead of BNP Paribas Real Estate and Countryside Properties. Savills has retained number one position since the launch of Target’s property category in 2009.

The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2011 is compiled by High Fliers Research from face-to-face interviews with 17,851 final year students leaving university in the summer of 2011. Savills entered the league table in 88th place, the fourth highest new entry this year, and the first property company to have been listed in the league table of Britain’s most sought-after and prestigious companies.

Jeremy Helsby, CEO of Savills, said: “We continue to place great importance on training our graduates to the highest levels in order to provide clients both now and in the future with the best advice and an outstanding quality of service.”

Ema Saunders, graduate recruitment and training manager, added: “I would like to thank our graduates and mentors for their huge contribution to the success of the scheme.”

(GK)

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