10,000 Interns Foundation urges organisations to rethink hiring practices

Beyond 'soft skills'

Linus Uhlig
clock • 2 min read

The 10,000 Interns Foundation has urged employers to look beyond soft skills from their recruitment processes following findings that it creates a barrier for entry for students who perform adequately when in employment.

According to the Impact report, 80.7% of applicants who gained internships through an internship programme designed to bring systemic change in industries such as financial services, law and journalism, suggested that the initiative "positively changed their expectations and experiences of the job market in general".  Two-thirds of ethnic minorities in UK financial services have suffered discrimination Having begun in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the report noted that, as the programme evolved and the events of 2020 faded, "restrictive eligibility criteria and misma...

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