"Prior to IR35, grads with little or low experience started off as contractors so you had little or no overhead in hiring them as you could just send them off the premises on the same day. Nearly all of my British colleagues started off as this way. I cannot think of anyone who was a permie day one."
I find extraordinarily unlikely. People employ contractors for proven skills, maybe you meant temps?
IT35 stops tax avoidance, new hires would not be put off by this.
In any case a new hire can be dismissed without any cause in the first year.
Degrees are pointless. A year spent solving logical problems and producing good written and spoken comms is all that is needed. A razor-sharp logical mind is the key to success in IT.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
