Re: UKNM: Fresh minds?

[Fiona Campbell-Howes]

Errrr, if these grads are so great, how come they haven't got permanent

jobs?


Also the top ten universities thing doesn't work for this reason: my uni is

(sadly) no longer in the established UK top ten, yet it is still recognised

as having one of the best modern languages faculties in the country. Yet a

uni like, I don't know, Imperial College maybe, probably doesn't have such a

great modern languages faculty as it is a science type place (I don't know

if it has one or not, and it might be great, but I'm just hypothesising). So

if fresh minds fields a Mod Lang grad from a science uni, they're bound not

to be as good as one from my place or another good languages-oriented

institution.


I don't think even places like McKinsey restrict their recruitment to that

extent!


Charlie, can you defend your business model to those who weren't at the

Chinwag do?  I'm curious.


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> 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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