Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup

Re:Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a... by softbuilder on Thursday May 05, 2011 @09:40AM (#2517299)

What's with the milk?

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Re:Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a... by thomson on Thursday May 05, 2011 @09:51AM (#2517332)

Milk used to be home-delivered in Britain--the act of companies touring universities to attract recent grads to apply is known informally as a milkround.

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Re:Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a... by dogonwheels on Thursday May 05, 2011 @10:19AM (#2517431)

Used to be? Don't tell that to my milkman! :)

I still get milk and eggs (and sometimes some pretty bad knock-off Irn Bru) from ours. We're in the semi-countryside just outside of Leeds, and it's not at all unusual around here. Wonderful service!

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Re:Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a... by lucraft on Thursday May 05, 2011 @12:00PM (#2517833)

The Milkround is a jobs fair for big corporations that goes round all the universities in the UK every year. http://www.milkround.com/

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Re:Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a... by dunk010 on Thursday May 05, 2011 @11:10AM (#2517651)

I think that it's some combination of a milk round being a boring and repetitive job (for those who have to go between all the universities) and some sort of youth/milk imagery. I think it's anachronistic as the only person I have ever heard refer to it in that way is my Dad.

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