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Working in UK finance: Private school? You're in!

Blind recruitment and outreach programmes abound, so why are southerners from fee-paying schools outnumbering the rest?

Working in UK finance: Private school? You're in!
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Many in finance would have you believe that enquiring where someone went to school is an outdated habit.

The sector is making all the right noises about moving towards a classless society through blind recruitment and outreach programmes. But according to FN's City Job Satisfaction Survey, instead of becoming more inclusive, in 2016, the sector is as elitist as ever.

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