Quote Originally Posted by boingy View Post
The system is at fault Mick. My wife had tons of experience in her job and often would have young University grads come in as managers who had to constantly ask the staff how to do things. Had no idea. They get a piece of paper which lands them a job but have no common sense or self learning ability. I went into Halfords to buy some brush on underseal. The lad at the till said "We don't stock it" "Are you sure"? I asked. "Yes"
I turned round and there facing me were tins of brush on underseal. He must have been staring at them for weeks from his desk. No interest in his job, no idea. Inept.


Bit of a general statement Boingy! Many big brands have a graduate programme with the aim of propelling graduates right to the top ie senior management/director level and invest a huge amount of money in this recruitment. I can name a couple of very successful companies where individuals who were graduates at John Lewis/TUI who then went on to run the companies as CEO'S and were extremely successful.

Bit of a difference of " graduates " who are carefully recruited at large successful companies and the same title " graduates " used at some poxy little marketing or IT company or in this case a BMW Garage!

Graduate recruitment at most large supermarkets/stores receives around 3000 applicants for less than 20 positions with a minimum of a 2.1 entry and around 4/5 interviews. The starting salary for example at Aldi for a grad is 44K and this will rise to about 78K in 3 years as each grad is expected to become an Area Manager. Don't meet the targets - no ifs and buts they are fired! But most do with large brands as recruitment is done right hence the investment.

I do here what you are saying though about common sense with some - but you could say this about anyone including our Boris but hey - look where he is and he will be worth millions.