She has a first-class honours degree in marketing management
🤣
also did a one-year internship at Amazon
🤣🤣🤣
Now, we had some laugh, but does she actually have any skills? Apart from marketing… Influencers… social media and other crap.
I can’t help but think what the point is of my degree that I spent four years working hard for
In marketing? Absolutely none.
Lee, who is 18 and has been looking for a job in Manchester for four months after finishing her A-levels, said the market was “a waste of time and very depressing”. “They ask you for experience that you can’t get without first having a job,” she said. “I am multilingual, I speak three languages
I would hire him ten times over a “marketing graduate”. Multilingual people are usually adding a lot. Asking for experience for an entry level role is a sign of HR led stupidity.
I would hire him ten times over a “marketing graduate”.
Him?
Multilingual people are usually adding a lot.
I mean, sure, compared to someone who struggles with repeating pronouns they’ve just quoted.
As a pretty multilingual person, just being multilingual isn’t enough. You need qualifications/experience in something else. Especially if your first language is English - companies don’t care to hire you over the non-native whose English is ‘good enough’ (because, to be fair, it often is.
edit: happy to be proven wrong - if you need an English/German/Spanish/Italian speaker and you pay better than the Civil Service - drop me a line 😉
As a pretty multilingual person, just being multilingual isn’t enough
We are talking about a 18 y/o kid. For an entry level role, being multilingual and pretty intelligent is enough.