Graduates turned down by supermarkets as vacancies hit four-year low

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2307p4jjz4o

Posted by razza357

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  2. Why would you expect to get a job In a supermarket over anyone else just because you went to uni?

    Unless your degree was in facing up I don’t see why it would matter.

  3. I work weekends at a supermarket, and honestly they’ll take anyone with a pulse. I have had to work with some proper window cleaners who can barley use deodorant. Cases like this are most likely down to 20 people applying for 1 spot, and a degree in 15th century Mongolian interpretive shadow puppetry is hardly going to be more of an incentive over someone who might have a couple months prior experience.

  4. > Can’t get a grad job as there are 1k applicants per position

    > Apply to supermarkets, retail, hospitality

    > Turned down by supermarkets as there’s 100 applicants per position

    > Also don’t want to hire grads as they assume that they’ll leave if/when they get a grad job

    Also government: why aren’t young people working???

  5. Companies won’t hire over-qualified candidates that will leave if they get a better offer…?

    No shit. Who writes these moronic articles…?

  6. They’re most likely just going with people who have experience in retail.

  7. I mean graduates aren’t exactly the kind of people on average supermarkets want to hire for say, a sales assistant role. They typically want under 20 year olds they can have on the 16-21 minimum wage bracket on flexible hours, e.g. 0 hour contracts or 4-8.

    You think supermarkets or even small businesses are in a rush to hire someone on adult minimum wage who might actually know their rights in a workplace?

  8. I only got jobs at supermarkets when I omitted my education from my cv.

  10. Being a graduate usually means the job is just a stop gap until they find something relevant to their qualifications. So not really a surprise they’re getting turned down.

  11. Overqualified but not wise enough to realise it’s probably not a good idea to put your degree on your CV when applying for unskilled vacancies.

  12. When I worked in Poundland around 8 years ago they were pretty much only taking people that had been sent there from the job centre like myself. They didn’t pay us a penny, we would just lose our dole if we didn’t go. My contract was only 4 weeks and I luckily got kept on, but later they were taking back to back 12-16 weekers that were not being paid at all by the company

  13. I was a manager at one store we had a new girl and she was asked to wash the parts for something. She said how we have a cleaner for this sort of work at home. Needless to say she didn’t stay long.

  14. This is someone applying for the Aldi grad scheme – its very different to a regular supermarket job.

  16. Yet another university graduate who has zero understanding of how the real world works.

    Retail positions don’t like graduates. Often they have zero work ethic, zero common sense, and frankly are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. They need babysitting to an extraordinary amount and then once you get them to an acceptable level, they disappear.

    Have experienced this first hand on multiple occasions, both as a colleague and a hiring manager.

    I once advertised a 20 hour part-time position in a store in a university city. Had several students apply who flat out didn’t read the advert. Had several turn up for interviews who again, didn’t read the advert, and when asked what hours they could work, were only willing to work a maximum of 8-12 hours. Most of them were academically smart, but had zero common sense or brains.

  17. Don’t worry folks. It’s all baked into the Legislative Initiative for Asset Realignment and Sales (*or LIARS for short*). Keep the rich rich, give them more tax cuts, the trickle of their unimaginable wealth gains over the past 5 decades will come down any moment now, just you wait and see! The abolition of freedom of movement was just a faux pas (*whilst letting in 1.6 million migrants*). Don’t worry, Farage and his fellow ~Tories~ Reform buddies will sort it out with more tax cuts on the rich, and abolishing human rights (*but remember that’s just for immigrants, like freedom of movement was, remember?*) The markets will sort it any moment, don’t you worry – but don’t you dare join a union! Those bastards will get you all fired! 

    <awkward cough> the immigrants did it.

    When will this constant economical tragedy end…?

  18. I don’t understand the benefit of a young person doing a masters degree in management (as the woman in the article has). No employer is going to look at that and make you a manager of a team, without good role experience already.

    I understand it if you’re a bit more experienced and looking to move up into upper management, but what can a 24 year old learn that they wouldn’t have gotten simply by working their way into a role.

  19. Do students not do part time work anymore? I was working at a supermarket when I was at University.

  20. So much anti-intellectualism in this sub, holy shit.

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