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PwC are my new social mobility heroes while, across the water, Athlone students get suited and booted
I was so pleased when I read that PwC had made the decision not to use UCAS points as a barrier to entry on to their graduate programmes. I hope this is the first crack in the wall and other … Continue reading
Posted in Employability, Interviews and selection
Tagged graduate recruitment, recruitment, selection, social mobility, undergraduates
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The women STEM shortage thing – am I repeating myself?
I find myself having more Sisyphus moments as the years go by. It seems that every month now, I push some metaphorical boulder up that sodding hill only to see it rolling back to where it started. It’s been called … Continue reading
Recruiting graduates with learning difficulties is both possible and good for the business. By Dickens, it’s fair too!
Regular readers might have noticed that nothing riles me more than patently unfair and illogical recruitment practices. Like a modern-day Charles Dickens, I rage against unfairness but not at such great length, you’ll be pleased to hear. I do and … Continue reading
Posted in disability, Employability, Internships, Recruitment
Tagged discrimination, diversity, graduate jobs, graduate recruitment, selection, undergraduates
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Staff retention made simple. Lessons from Breakfast News
Despite a tendency to elaborate for comic effect(?), I have always been more Hemingway than Conrad. I admire spare prose, distrust adjectives and would rather poke my eyes out with a hat-pin than suffer the closing chapter of Heart of … Continue reading
Gender confidence gap evident amongst first year students
I’m writing this on Transfer Deadline Day, so apologies if I have to break off periodically to announce that an already-rich-as-Croesus footballer has moved from one money-making corporate entity to another, to the immense satisfaction of his agent and the … Continue reading
Men and women are different (oh yes) but does this difference affect their employability (oh no)?
Universities carry out a comprehensive annual survey of graduates, six months after graduation, to record their first ‘destinations’. Makes students sound like ingénue travellers en route to somewhere life-enhancing, which I hope they are. This data creates league tables of … Continue reading
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