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Association of Graduate Recruiters Annual Conference

5-7 July 2009

Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, South Wales

The 2009 Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) annual conference will take place at the Celtic Manor, Newport, on 5-7 July and promises to be the most important event of its kind this year. The conference will shed new light on the effect of the recession on graduate recruitment and offer advice to graduate recruiters on how to operate in this Brave New World.

The hotly-anticipated results of the AGR 2009 Summer Survey will be launched on Monday 6 July and will paint a clearer picture of what is happening in the graduate jobs market, focusing on average starting salaries, the number of job vacancies and the number of applications per vacancy.

The results of the Real Prospects survey, the first-ever national survey of new and recent graduates' real experiences of recruitment, training and career development will also be launched. The Real Prospects survey is the result of collaboration between Graduate Prospects, the AGR and The Guardian.

Key speakers this year include Rachel Elnaugh and Mark Pollock. Rachel is one of Britain's highest profile entrepreneurs and a former panel member of Dragons' Den. She will be giving a speech entitled ‘What Tomorrow Holds for the UK Economy and your Business'. Mark is an adventure athlete, author and international speaker and will be drawing on his own life experiences in his presentation, ‘Making It Happen'.