When you're fresh out of college- beaming with a degree in hand, you have dreams and aspirations to do something meaningful, something that'd change the world. But, the truth is finding a job you want, or rather a job, in the first place is easier said than done.

You soon find out you're competing with hundreds, if not thousands for one job, and that the unending list of criteria that every company has demotivates you and your chance of finding a job, further.

However, a change could be in the offing with one of UK's biggest accountancy firms being on our side. Ernst and Young, popularly known as EY, have decided to scrap academic qualifications as a criteria for hiring in its entry level programme, having found no evidence linking educational qualifications to achievement in professional field.

The company will now assess the potential of candidates based on numerical tests and online strength assessments to judge if a candidate makes the cut or not.

While this is great news, it's still not enough. Hence, we at Business Insider draw up a list of three things that companies should forego looking while hiring freshers:

1. Work experience: It's wrong for any company hiring freshers to make a decision based on the candidate's work experience. The whole point of being fresh out of college is that one has no experience and instead of asking for previous experience and having it play a major role in deciding the candidate's worth, companies should instead provide them with experience.

2. A host of skill sets: Let's be honest, most of the candidates applying for their first job will have little or no skill sets, but that should discourage a potential employer. Instead they should judge a candidate based on their passion and then take them under the company's wings to teach them the necessary skill sets and watch him/her becoming an asset to the company.

3. Dress to impress: The age-old criteria of dress to impress needs to be relaxed. Immediately. Does it really matter what one wears to work if they are good at what they do? We're not advocating wearing pajamas or boxers to work but expecting one to come impeccably dressed in formals day in and out, is a little too much.