Milkround News, 06 August 2009
Educational qualifications should not be the only consideration when recruiting graduates, employers have been told.Recruiter reports Sarah Shillingford, graduate recruitment partner at Deloitte, claims it is impossible to compare university qualifications between one university and another.She urges employers to consider skills which are not part of an academic qualification, telling Recruiter: “While it is said that it’s harder say to get a 2:1 at one university than another, degrees aren’t readily comparable, which provides employers with a challenge."Using candidates' school or even university education as a measure of talent is not necessarily an easy basis for comparison. At Deloitte, we design rigorous assessment processes and methods for our graduate programme, which go beyond our initial academic screening criteria, in order to create a level playing field as well as assess skills beyond academic ones. As an employer, we would welcome a degree system that would assist the comparability of results achieved."