Quote Originally Posted by baggieal View Post
Many class a graduate employee as the graduate scheme at a large corporate blue chip brand with over 500 employees where they can circulate around every department including - marketing - sales - operations - HR - pricing - shop floor - senior management to name just a selection. The whole point in a successful company ie TUI U.K. a graduate employee is selected from up to 1000 other candidates with a 2.1 to be fast tracked for future senior management or director level. This was why I used the example of David Burling who started as a graduate and now running the Board. A mega bright individual and known for it!

I am not talking about the terminology that every university leaver is a graduate because they graduated with a degree or a small company of 50 or less employees who decide to call a vacant position a graduate where the pay is peanuts. That’s not a proper graduate scheme! Bit like a small company owner using the title CEO which is slightly different to a CEO of say John Lewis.

So in the case of the person who came to you - he was a university leaver who graduated with a masters.

Most university leavers who have graduated can’t get on to a large blue chip company’s graduate scheme as it’s almost impossible - in many cases there are hundreds of applicants all with a 2.1. So these companies hardly f uck up their graduate recruitment. That’s my point!

Think we are talking about different things! We had a university leaver working for us to gain work experience too but apart from graduating with a 2.2 - he was picking and packing.

Everyone must take their own road and decide what’s best for them. I will say though - a good education or degree can never be taken away and many can fall back on it. Know a 32 year old with a degree who’s just decided to go into teaching and she can be fast tracked.

Education or university is not for everyone. We have a family member who was as thick as a pile of s hit but a fantastic work ethic. He refused to work for the pathetic minimum wage and learnt how to do resin driveways. Now with a team of around 30 he’s on the way to being seriously minted.
I still don’t get what point you were making about the graduate I employed?

What did you mean by “hardly a graduate”?

You don’t even know the bloke!?