Kaplunk Graduate Guide Empowering Ethical Hiring

Welcome to the Kaplunk Graduate Page — your gateway to a fair, transparent, and empowering career pathway designed to protect graduates and challenge the outdated recruitment model. This page supports graduates searching for graduate jobs, graduate schemes, entry-level jobs, trainee roles, graduate opportunities, and direct-to-employer roles.
Kaplunk exists to remove recruitment agencies from the hiring cycle, ensuring a fairer, more ethical future for everyone entering the workforce.

Take accountancy as an example:
- A 3‑year UK degree can cost up to £50,000.
- Graduates then spend years repaying loans, often well into their careers.
You invest this money to build your future — but the current hiring system makes you pay twice.
The Problem: Graduates Are Paying Twice
After paying tens of thousands for their degree, many graduates face:
- A job market dominated by recruitment agencies.
- Employers paying 10%–20% of a graduate’s salary to agencies.
- Agencies profiting from the skills the graduate worked hard to gain.
Kaplunk removes them.

For Graduates:
- Direct-to-employer access — no agencies.
- Transparent hiring with real opportunities.
- Faster decisions and direct communication.
For Employers:
- A zero-fee hiring platform.
- Ethical, transparent access to graduate talent.
- A hiring model that reinvests savings into talent — not middlemen.
How Removing Agencies Benefits Graduates
A typical recruiter fee for a graduate hire sits between £3,000 and £5,000.
Without agencies, employers can instead reinvest those savings into:
- Higher starting salaries
- Professional qualification funding (ACCA, CIMA, CIPD, tech certs)
- Student loan repayment support
- Training, mentoring, and development
Direct Graduate Jobs — Ethical and Transparent
Kaplunk helps graduates discover:
- Direct employer graduate jobs (no agencies involved)
- Graduate schemes and entry-level roles across sectors
- Internships, traineeships, and skill-building pathways
- Jobs after university with transparent processes
High‑volume searches supported:
- graduate jobs near me
- graduate schemes 2026
- entry-level jobs UK
- no recruitment agency jobs
- how to find a job after university
- graduate jobs London / Manchester / Birmingham / Edinburgh
A Better Future Without Recruitment Agencies
Kaplunk is rewriting the rules of early-career hiring — removing unnecessary fees, promoting ethical recruitment, and empowering graduates to start their careers with confidence.