Union slams Paypal chief’s claims about Irish graduates

Streetwise school-leavers or workers with life experience are more likely to get a job with Paypal than graduates.

Louise Phelan, who heads up the Irish wing of the online payments company, revealed more than 60% of the 1,800 people employed by Paypal in Ireland are not graduates. Earlier this week, she said some graduate job applicants exhibited a sense of entitlement and expected to be handed everything on a plate.

But John Logue, president of the Union of Students in Ireland said Ms Phelan’s statements “seem to be based almost entirely on anecdotal evidence and hearsay, with no reference whatsoever to research”.