Degree call for recruitment consultants

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NotAllThere replied

2 September 2009, 11:13
Grief. Next someone will suggest recruitment consultants should be armed.
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Pondlife replied

2 September 2009, 09:43
Frances Crook, director of the organisation, said consultants were faced with difficult and perilous situations on a daily basis with only eight weeks' training to draw on.

"HR offices are violent and dangerous places, full of very vulnerable and damaged individuals," she said.

"The consultant currently has to help applicants with everything from housing to finances and from detoxification to anger management, all within a horribly complex framework of legislation."
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thunderlizard replied

2 September 2009, 09:40
Seems fair enough. It's only membership of a college rugby or rowing club that can truly prepare someone for having a bucket of wee thrown all over them.
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TheOmegaMan started a topic Degree call for recruitment consultants

2 September 2009, 09:38
Degree call for recruitment consultants

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8233001.stm

All consultants should be educated to degree level to help give them the necessary skills for this "challenging" job

Currently staff were "turnkeys... barely skilled or literate".

In future only graduates in subjects such as criminology, law or sociology should be accepted for the role.

Eight weeks is not enough time to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to fulfil this hugely challenging and complicated role.
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