{"id":3144,"date":"2015-09-08T09:20:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T09:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2015-09-08T09:20:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T09:20:35","slug":"a-22-isnt-the-end-of-your-graduate-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/a-22-isnt-the-end-of-your-graduate-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A 2:2 Isn\u2019t the End of your Graduate Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Grad-Job-blackboard-620\"<\/a>The Desmond, the ballerina, the one that wasn\u2019t quite good enough. The terrible 2:2 degree classification that has left debt riddled graduates feeling crushed and at a loss. New evidence has arisen in the recruitment world, however, suggesting that that the once cruel middle ground of degree results might not be the red mark on your career that you once feared.<\/p>\n

A recent report by the Guardian entitled: \u201cFeeling depressed about your 2:2 degree? Get over it, employers have\u201d has argued that the real worth of a graduate lies not in their academic aptitude, but in their attitude. Gurpal Minhas, head of customer solutions at Capp, has told the Guardian that for many of his clients, a high degree result doesn\u2019t necessarily guarantee a high performing and successful employee:<\/p>\n

\u201cMany organizations are considering the impact of purely screening out applications based on degree grades,\u201d says Minhas. He says that companies are now shifting their mindsets to focus more on behavioral characteristics such as \u201ccustomer service, drive and passion\u201d.<\/p>\n

The accountancy firm Ernst& Young, one of the UKs highest graduate employers, has announced they will no longer request a 2:1 for their graduate application process. The auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has also stopped using A-level grades as a guide of who to hire, as it is becoming increasingly clear that there is \u201clittle link between previous success at university and future success in professional qualifications,\u201d Maggie Stilwell, EY\u2019s managing partner for talent, has commented about their decision.<\/p>\n

The research has some good news for 2:2 graduates, however this new perspective hasn\u2019t penetrated the entire graduate employment pool, \u201cOur annual survey will be published in September, but our current data shows that three quarters of employers are still looking for graduates with a 2:1 degree classification.\u201d (Stephen Isherwood, chief executive of the Association of Graduate Recruiters).<\/p>\n

Discovery Graduates has always felt that the true potential of any graduate lies in their behavior. We, therefore, are 100% behind a far more modern and success driven approach to graduate recruitment.<\/p>\n

Discovery Graduates offers employers the opportunity to have an in depth knowledge of a candidate\u2019s behavior handed to them in a stunningly accurate report. Using the latest knowledge of neuroscience and psychoanalysis, the Parallax<\/a> Report is an accumulation of raw behavioral data analyzed and delivered in a comprehensible and comprehensive way.<\/p>\n

So, if you\u2019re a new graduate with a 2:2, or an employer dissatisfied with your current graduate intake, we would recommend taking a leaf out of Ernst & Young\u2019s book, and perhaps consider evaluating the candidate and not simply the academic evidence.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Desmond, the ballerina, the one that wasn\u2019t quite good enough. The terrible 2:2 degree classification that has left debt riddled graduates feeling crushed and at a loss. New evidence has arisen in the recruitment world, however, suggesting that that the once cruel middle ground of degree results might not be the red mark on […]<\/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":[20,21,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-employer-news","category-graduate-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","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=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}