Graduate job hunters may be interested in the results of a survey that showed 58 per cent of graduates think employers should be more inclusive when setting minimum academic benchmarks for entry. The majority of graduate recruitment schemes require candidates to have left university with a 2:1 degree or higher, but students are arguing that this could be ruling out a number of capable individuals. Eva Malecki, graduate recruitment manager at Centrica, said that she believed accepting candidates with a 2:2 or above enables her employers to get in a superior range of candidates. She added: "To secure the best talent for our business, we look beyond a degree classification; job history, activities and interests outside of university and competency-based examples are just as important to show us that an applicant has skills beyond their degree." KPMG recently announced that it would be increasing its graduate intake to 820, a marked increase on the 600 it took in last year.
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