The FINANCIAL -- BP, one the UK’s leading graduate recruiters, announced that it is increasing its annual UK graduate recruitment by 50 per cent, to nearly 250 graduates, in 2012.

According to BP, BP has also confirmed that it will offer all of these graduate recruits an opportunity to work with the London 2012 Organising Committee before they start their careers in September. BP is the only UK employer to offer such an experience to graduates, who will start working with LOCOG in June.

LOCOG and BP have agreed to offer up to 100 of the graduates the opportunity to pursue short-term secondments in areas such as the main operations centre, transport or city operations. BP secondment places are being offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

Throughout their secondments, BP will provide the graduates with a BP internship salary, accommodation and transport costs.

The BP pool of graduates will be trained by BP before they start in the summer, and will be further trained by LOCOG when they undertake their roles. They will work with LOCOG over different periods and stages during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, before starting their full-time roles with BP in September 2012.

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