War games for talented graduates

Events which pit teams of graduates against each other in a business-related game may sound like an episode of The Apprentice but, as Colin Cottell explains, the companies involved get to pick out potential talent

Being quizzed by the chief executive of the company, while under the piercing gaze of a panel of the company’s most senior managers is the sort of thing that gives even seasoned employees sleepless nights. But that was the scenario facing Ben Hayward, a management trainee at L’Oreal.

However, strangely at the time Hayward was not even a L’Oreal employee but a...

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