Is the crowd mentality of focusing so
much on graduate schemes harmful?
Not exact matches
The National Union of Students (NUJ) has called for the current system to be scrapped and replaced by a new
scheme that would see
graduates making contributions depending
on how
much they benefit financially from their university education.
The majority of
graduate schemes work
on the premise that you will eventually take
on a management role; however, there is no guarantee that this will happen straight away — it very
much depends
on how you have performed during your training period and whether the right opportunities arise.
Big companies do the rounds, displaying their wares
on campus and making anyone with a remote interest in a
graduate scheme forget about the abundant, and possibly
much better, alternatives.
I've experienced both sides of the
graduate recruitment fence, from applying to and getting a job
on a
much sort after
graduate scheme, through to interviewing perspective
graduates and running assessment centres.
The starting salary for those
on a
graduate scheme is typically
much higher than the average starter wage, and definitely higher than internship wages.