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Left-Wing Education?
The Employer's Who Aren't Looking For A University Education
Courtesy: Charlotte Lytton- The Telegraph/msn.com 17.08.23
Changing the requirements of the modern workplace means better understanding what non-graduates can bring, says Khyati Sundaram, CEO at Applied, a recruitment platform. This includes “transferable skills like adaptability, resilience, professionalism and initiative; as well as hard skills learnt through early experiences and training”. She adds that Sunak’s comments do hardworking young people a “disservice” as the problem is less about graduates being sold “false dreams” and more about employers using false markers of success to assess candidates. “We must also recognise that when students enter the workforce, their CVs – which list proxies like where they went to university, their name, their hobbies – can be lightning rods for unconscious human bias, meaning many skilled students get overlooked,” she says. Testing for role-relevant skills instead “is the fairest and most accurate way to screen candidates”.
Catherine Warrilow, managing director of attractions ticketing agency Days Out, believes that young people need to be made better aware of what their working lives could look like at school, where “it should be far easier to understand what your options are and gain practical advice on what might be right for you”.
Catherine Warrilow: ‘Employers who create rigid expectations will get rigid results’ - Andrew Crowley © Provided by The Telegraph
But the 43-year-old thinks that “businesses are failing young people too”, suggesting that those of a certain size or turnover “should have to engage local schools and colleges and welcome work experience and apprentices more openly”.
“We could do so much to nurture young talent that we’re not doing. When employers focus on degrees, you’re overlooking innate talent, curiosity, eagerness to learn, lived experience and so much more. Employers who create rigid expectations will get rigid results,” Warrilow says.
As of this week, Sunak has cut the amount of paperwork required for small businesses to take on apprentices, which he believes will kickstart the “deeper cultural change we need” to rebalance what the future of work looks like. The question is whether, this time, the proposals will stick.
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