How the best British employers find and promote their staff
No degree? Some employers care much less than others
To land a job at Schroders, one of Britain’s oldest and most venerable fund managers, it helps to avoid certain universities. “We’ve moved away from hiring Oxbridge history graduates,” says Peter Harrison, Schroders’ just-departed CEO, who joined the fund manager in the 1980s as one of its first non-Oxbridge graduates. These days the firm is casting its net wider, opening its doors to non-degree-holders with skills in IT and data-wrangling.
Explore more
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The score for talent”
Britain November 30th 2024
- How the best British employers find and promote their staff
- The best British companies to work for to get ahead
- Can potholes fuel populism?
- Adele is taking a break from music. Can anybody replace her?
- Britain’s Supreme Court considers what a woman is
- A Northern Irish experiment in recycling
- The slow death of a Labour buzzword
- Are British voters as clueless as Labour’s intelligentsia thinks?
From the November 30th 2024 edition
Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents
Explore the editionMore from Britain
Has the Royal Navy become too timid?
A new paper examines how its culture has changed
A plan to reorganise local government in England runs into opposition
Turkeys vote against Christmas
David Lammy’s plan to shake up Britain’s Foreign Office
Diplomats will be tasked with growing the economy and cutting migration
Britain’s government has spooked markets and riled businesses
Tax rises were inevitable. Such a shaky start was not
Labour’s credibility trap
Who can believe Rachel Reeves?