{"id":2713,"date":"2015-05-08T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2015-05-08T14:09:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:09:01","slug":"should-a-level-qualifications-be-placed-on-job-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/should-a-level-qualifications-be-placed-on-job-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Should A-level qualifications be placed on job applications?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Grads-archway-620.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2336 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Grads-archway-620.jpg\" alt=\"Grads-archway-620\" width=\"620\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the giant graduate recruiter PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) announcing they were renouncing A-levels as a primary method of selection for graduates, it has raised the question: should A-level qualifications be placed on job applications at all?<\/p>\n<p>The firm claims that A-level attainment results are a \u201cyardstick\u201d for social division and therefore have no place on their applications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outdated A-level results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PwC state that individuals from privileged background often achieve higher grades than those who are not and in order to be considered an \u201cequal and representative\u201d business, A-levels are not necessary on their job applications.<\/p>\n<p>The accountancy firm also claim that A-levels are not only \u201csocially divisive\u201d but also \u201coutdated\u201d because they are studied a good three to four years prior to applying for graduate jobs.<\/p>\n<p>On this note the company states that the interests and passions the individual may have had three to four years ago are not representative of whom they are now; meaning they are not \u201ca good measure of what a person can do\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The counter argument<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, while PwC have clearly stated their thoughts on the matter of the decline in value of A-level qualifications when it comes to securing a graduate job, <em>The Telegraph\u2019s<\/em> Eleanor Doughty has fought this opinion tooth and nail.<\/p>\n<p>Doughty argues that without A-levels, students would not have the ability to secure a place at university in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo get a \u2018top\u2019 degree, you generally have to get \u2018top\u2019 grades at school,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Doughty goes further to state that if A-levels are not to be used on job applications; then why are degree results?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an academic qualification after all, and if you\u2019re going to discriminate on the grounds of academic results at 18, why not at graduate age?\u201d she said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the giant graduate recruiter PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) announcing they were renouncing A-levels as a primary method of selection for graduates, it has raised the question: should A-level qualifications be placed on job applications at all? The firm claims that A-level attainment results are a \u201cyardstick\u201d for social division and therefore have no place on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}