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The perils of recruiting from a single university

Career Clinic: Companies that hire all their candidates from the same educational establishment may be guilty of indirect discrimination

The perils of recruiting from a single university

I know from experience that only candidates from a certain university fit into my team. Can I screen out CVs from applicants who did not attend this university?

No TV show captures the dogma of hiring from only one university quite like US legal drama Suits. The (fictional) lawyers, Harvard graduates all, are exclusive in their recruitment practices until the arrival of a prodigious new associate who has, in fact, not graduated at all. This week's question asks whether this exclusive approach is lawful and - just as importantly - sensible.

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