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Everyone has an exam day story. Everyone. From the moments of relief to the 'failures' and looking forward on the impact of exams on employee's futures.
When it comes to recruitment and HR, it's becoming an outdated ideal that applicants need to have certain exam grades, or a degree. To mark a-levels results day 2023, here are words of wisdom from and for those in HR and leadership:
Consider your future employment strategy
Employment Consultant Tom Cornell, Psychology Consultant at HireVue, is urging all employers to rethink their recruitment strategies to ensure the younger generation is given a fair chance in their future prospects. He says: “For the students who haven’t quite got the A-Level results they were hoping for, it can feel like the end of the world.
But the results aren’t always a fair reflection of the individual’s efforts, rather it shows that the education system’s academic attainment has not yet recovered from the disruption of the past few years; the pandemic, the subsequent shift to online learning and the recent faculty strikes. These have only hampered an already struggling system. A single letter or numbered grade can’t accurately portray a student’s ability and really, we should be looking beyond these grades to truly assess someone’s talent and skills.
