Most companies will still prefer to have recent graduates. Shell, an oil company, already admits(允许) that it can attract high-flying(抱有雄心壮志的) graduates only by promoting them above their less-gifted seniors. Pechiney, a French aluminium(铝) manufacturer, is creation its own pool of skilled labour for a new plant at Dunkirk by agreeing to share the costs of educating 500 workers with the French government years before the factory is completed in mid-1972.
12. Other firms are paying graduates while they are at university. Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm sponsors(创办人) British engineering students at Brunel University, if they come to work for it in Germany after graduation. A fifth of the graduates hired each year by ICL, A British computer company , are sponsored(赞住) students.