RE: UKNM: Fresh minds?

[Ben Metcalfe]

I am glad companies like freshminds clearly state that they only recruit

from the top ten uni's - I instantly know it is not the type of company I

would want to work for (regardless of whether I am from one of those uni's

or not.


It's also possible that this policy is illegal as, like you said, European

grads are excluded (and they have equal working rights).  AFAIK you can ask

for a specific level of education, but you can't exclude possible candidates

purely because of the specific academic institution they were educated at.


And anyway, if your post is technical, it's pretty short sighted to restrict

it to grads only.  There are many out there who astutely avoided uni to get

industry-experience and so by the time their peers graduated, have a better

skill-base and 3-4 years of real experience.



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-----Original Message-----

From: Ray Taylor [

rayeyeconomy [dot] com (mailto:rayeyeconomy [dot] com)

]

Sent: 29 September 2000 09:30

To:

uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

Subject: UKNM: Fresh minds?



Charlie Osmond <

charliefreshminds [dot] co [dot] uk

> said:


>Now that I have had to justify my business model to 20 argumentative people


Is that surprising when www.freshminds.co.uk states : "Fresh Minds has a

highly selective recruitment policy and only actively recruits from the UK's

top ten universities."?


You forgot to say that all applicants have to be white and talk with plums

in their gobs, etc.


My limited experience with Oxbridge minds is that they tend to be anything

but fresh on account of too much champange and Charlie (members of UKNM and

clients of eyeconomy excepted of course). But I wouldn't want anyone to

think I was prejudiced.....


[Sam says: msg chopped]



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