Verbal job offer under threat - advice please!!

Undervalued

ShellsWells wrote: »

I’m hoping they may be in my parents attic somewhere as I know you have to pay for new copies.

I don’t get it, I’ve got 9 years experience in the job as well, everyone I have spoken to has been completely shocked that they’re asking for them.

Maybe so but the bottom line is they are quite entitled to if they so choose. If they want to make it a condition of employment that they see your primary school milk monitor's badge they can do that too!

It may of course just be some over zealous HR droid! Sadly some of them are not particularly bright. If you explain the position to the person who has offered you the job they may well be able to overrule some minor clerk.

Alderbank

Doesn't sound unreasonable to me and certainly not the work of some over zealous HR droid!

For most graduates GCSE is the highest, indeed the only qualification they have in English and Maths. I know many humanities students who boast that they are hopeless at maths. I have no problem with an employer's recruitment policy requiring at least a 'C' in these important subjects.

MataNui

Alderbank wrote: »

For most graduates GCSE is the highest, indeed the only qualification they have in English and Maths. I know many humanities students who boast that they are hopeless at maths. I have no problem with an employer's recruitment policy requiring at least a 'C' in these important subjects.

This is true, however unless a university education really has gone to the point of worthless now you wont be able to get onto a course without a C in Maths/English and certificates are checked on enrollment. If you dont have them then you will do an 'equivalence' qualification in your first year.

So this does actually seem like overkill. If you have a degree then you have a C or above (or equivalent in Maths/English). In fact if they are being this moronic about it i would probably contact the other option and withdraw my acceptance for this post. Imagine the issues in the future with this company if you do ever need anything from HR. Somehow i cant see it being an easy company work for.

marliepanda

MataNui wrote: »

This is true, however unless a university education really has gone to the point of worthless now you wont be able to get onto a course without a C in Maths/English and certificates are checked on enrollment. If you dont have them then you will do an 'equivalence' qualification in your first year.

So this does actually seem like overkill. If you have a degree then you have a C or above (or equivalent in Maths/English). In fact if they are being this moronic about it i would probably contact the other option and withdraw my acceptance for this post. Imagine the issues in the future with this company if you do ever need anything from HR. Somehow i cant see it being an easy company work for.

I don’t believe yorgirst paragraph is true. I did a masters after my degree which definitely required a bachelors first, and a good half of my cohort were doing top up maths throughout. This was a teaching masters so the maths was relevant, but all of these people with degrees clearly didn’t have GCSE maths and English at C

pmduk

Wouldn't your University have a record from your application there?

elsien

I think possibly they're more interested in pass/fail, especially for English, maths, anything else relevant to your job. Getting an F and putting a C may lead to issues, putting a B instead of a C is less of a problem as they are both still a pass. That would be how I'd look at it, anyway.

FBaby

Are you concerned with reason or not? Ie. are you worried you might have said you got an A when you got a B, or that you put you got a B when you got an E? I expect they are mainly concerned about the total number of GCSE claimed (again, if you got 10 rather than 11, unlikely to be a big issue, it might be if you have only 5), and whether you got Cs at Maths and English (so again, wouldn't be too worried if you got Bs rather than As).

That is unless they are the type of environment where they consider any disclosure of wrong information to be fraudulent and something they would consider gross misconduct.

Just cross fingers now that it is the latter and you haven't grossly over stated your results (would be hard to believe you made an error between an A and an E even 10 years later).