Quote Originally Posted by BaggieSingh View Post
I wouldn't say that everyone with a 2:1 is intelligent I have met plenty of knucklehead thickos with 2:1s
The education system is no where near as good as it used to be.

Interesting you used Aldi as an example do you have an experience with them bud?

As in my experience their whole idea is pretty flawed for some people, their grads and directors are chosen on the experience to manage people and be pliable.Its like the army with a message reinforced all along the chain.
All levels of management are a mouthpiece for a single message from one place that must be adhered to, so they pick people who are very much into team games/sports
That works providing you have people who blindly follow all along the path, problem is when these people are put into specialised areas eg. IT and you have someone with an ancient history degree trying to make decisions on fairly technical IT issues

But they do pay incredibly well, and have managed to get a workforce that wouldnt get paid that elsewhere, making they very pliable and susceptible to suggestion, another reason why they want Grads in

They even make them dress the same, wear welted sole shoes, navy suits, black shoes etc
In fact in their offices you cannot unbutton shirts, loosen ties and until recently even grow a beard

Supermarkets/large travel companies/Mars/Nestle etc generally recruits their grads well ie Aldi/Asda and M&S to name but a few and the ones I know, have gone on to be part of the senior management teams/running the companies. It tends to be very large dynamic companies who have graduate recruitment teams who are the ones who select well and the competition is fierce so they rarely get it wrong. I knew the grad of TUI UK well and now he's the CEO - mega brain and always destined for the top as his commercial knowledge of the company was second to none.

As in all walks of life - there are many with no common sense and come across as quite thick. Our Boris is one of them and despite being far from thick - would you employ him?