You've got to feel sorry for young people today. First no one wanted to employ. Now they're being targeted by the pariah of the business world - financial services. What have they done to deserve this?!
The National Skills Academy for Financial Services (NSAFS) is apparently urging financial services employers looking for new staff to target school leavers currently finishing their 'A' levels. They opens up a real can of worms:
Lack of qualifications and experience. Look at the mess the industry got itself into with qualified staff ...
Reward discrepancies. Presumably the industry plans to pay these poor fools a pittance while still shelling out huge amounts for senior staff?
The long run. Are they going to regret this? While the organisations involved may well come to regret hiring inexperienced staff, the young people concerned may very well look back and regret missing out on a university education ...
Save for maybe making the government look a tiny bit better, this is destined to be another one of those sticking plaster over a gaping wound schemes that will fade away in a year or two ... hopefully.
