On August 24, 2009
Grad-Free BT Creates Its Own Brain Drain
“Want to kick-start your career with a fast-developing global company,” asks a page of BT’s website, apparently unaware BT has suspended its graduate recruitment programme. Students should prepare for a kick in the teeth rather than a kick-start. Does BT have a duty to take on a quota of university graduates? A quarter of a million youngsters spill out of universities and colleges each year and if one of the country’s top 10 employers cannot take them on, what company will? The truth is the fast-developing company is fast contracting, axing 15,000 jobs in the past year with another 5,000 set to go, plus 10,000 contract workers. Pay’s been frozen and the 150,000 still on the payroll were earlier…
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