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.
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