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Our Impact: Contextual Recruitment System
programmes come from less socially mobile backgrounds where access to the
profession can be particularly difficult.
To hardwire social mobility metrics into the PRIME application process, we partnered with Rare Recruitment
to provide a Contextual Recruitment System (CRS) to measure students’ relative disadvantage against their academic performance.
This tool has allowed our member firms to assess students’ applications more fairly, and with the benefit of more useful information.
CRS also enables PRIME to gather national data about the participants on all PRIME programmes, which assists us to understand if there are particular areas in the UK where more needs to be done to further improve access.
The CRS tool has given members confidence that extremely valuable work experience placements continue to be offered to candidates who most closely meet PRIME’s eligibility criteria. It also reassures applicants that their economic background and personal circumstances are taken into account when applying for work experience placements.
“We are delighted to support PRIME
in their aim of ensuring that PRIME programme places are accessed by the students who need them the most and to help identify areas where there may be a need for more schools outreach.”
RARE Recruitment
The core of PRIME’s mission is to ensure that participants in our