Managing Graduate Recruitment Campaign Calendars

WipeAway Guides·4 min read·Updated July 2026

Graduate recruitment campaigns are some of the most calendar-intensive hiring activities an organisation can run. Over the course of a typical graduate scheme campaign — from application deadline to offer day — a large employer might run hundreds of assessment events, interviews, and internal selection meetings across a period of several months.

The graduate recruitment calendar lifecycle

A typical graduate campaign generates calendar events across several stages:

  • Online assessment windows: Blocks of time reserved for completing online tests
  • Video interview slots: Individual slots for pre-recorded or live video interviews
  • Assessment centre days: Full-day events involving multiple assessors and candidates across structured activities
  • Panel interviews: Follow-up interviews for candidates who passed the assessment centre
  • Internal debrief and calibration meetings: Assessor meetings to compare and rank candidates
  • Offer day events: Coordination of offer calls and communications

For a graduate scheme taking 20 people from a pool of 500 applicants, this can generate well over a thousand calendar entries across the campaign period.

Clearing the campaign calendar at close

Once the campaign is complete and all offers have been accepted, the entire campaign calendar can be cleared in a single WipeAway session:

  1. Export the calendar as an ICS archive if retention is required
  2. Set the cut-off date to the last day of the campaign
  3. Sign into wipeaway.app, select the campaign calendar(s), and confirm

The calendar is then clean and ready for next year's graduate campaign — with all sharing permissions and assessor access still in place.

Year-on-year approach: Many graduate recruitment teams reuse the same calendar each year, clearing it at the end of each campaign cycle. This avoids the overhead of re-sharing with assessors and hiring managers at the start of every new cycle.

University careers team perspective

University careers services that coordinate employer events — career fairs, employer presentations, on-campus interview days — face the same challenge at the end of each academic year. Clearing the events calendar at year end gives a clean starting point for the next academic year's employer engagement programme.

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