Monday, September 10, 2007
Why business must learn to engage with universities
When KPMG recruited more than 500 graduates from Australian universities last year it reflected that KPMG was one of the universities' most important customers.
KPMG also started to think about how it interacts with its supplier, the tertiary sector. This example spawned several ideas picked up by the Committee for Melbourne's higher-education taskforce, which on Monday released its recommendations about improving the relationship between universities, business and government.
As the war for talent intensifies and the old model of attending annual career days and requesting interviews for 10,000 potential graduates is outmoded and inefficient, there is a great appetite for different sets of skills.
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