Does being privately educated mean discrimination at job interviews? Post Reply

[Starr]

Guess what..lots of privately educated people don't earn masses of money. They could be teachers, writers, academics, palliative care workers, designers, musicians, environmentalists etc

It's honestly disturbing that people are getting wound up about positive discrimination for Oxbridge and Graduate schemes. Obviously this neccessary.

Many academic people do not have a good business brain either and not the most practical or employable in some ways.

I think parents should stop viewing private education as a financial investment. An investment in education, yes. Your child will grow up and rebel against what YOU expected from them. Or be miserable.

[LFG87]

I work for a large National company, our graduate recruitment team removes all references to universities attended and school names from CVs, and only leaves the subjects and grades achieved. This was done to remove any bias on private or non private education. I understand that more employers are doing this.

I’d would advise sending your child to a school where you feel they would be happiest, that’s ultimately more important

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[juliantenniscoach]

It's almost impossible to predict the political climate a few years down the road.  Trying to play the system is fraught with difficulties.  Just go where you think their educational and pastoral needs will be met the best.

[Ratski]

It’s about time too. I am a global HR director for a large multinational - and yes, we do analyse the screening questions and background of each candidate to decide who to progress. As a previous poster said, this is about levelling the playing field - something that should have been done decades ago.

Does is really mean a tougher time for little privately educated, bubble wrapped, exotic gap-yeared Freddie or Amelia? No, but it may seem like it as their comfortable world of calling in favours, trust funds and blatant sense of entitlement to walk into a high paying job after university comes crashing down. There’s no better life lesson, and it’s also a good sense of the obstacles that ‘disadvantaged’ kids have faced for years.

The private bubble is bursting, and for many of you, it has clearly swept the rug from underneath your feet.

It saddens me that we have such bitter and twisted individuals working for such multinational companies.

If I was to change the names in your second paragraph to Tinisha and Ahmed and talked about their upbringing and background I’m sure you would be first to shout the r word.

Many parents struggle to pay the fees forgoing the annual holidays and luxuries, others are there because their parents work abroad for the government, military etc. Not everyone privately educated has a trust fund and the great connections.

The mask is really starting to slip from these progressive types. They preach all the kind fluffy words but there is a sinister and evil marxist undertone in everything they do.

[Needcoffeenow]

Ratski, the mind boggles at ‘sinister and evil marxists’ at work in our top international consultancies. Or anywhere else, come to that. But perhaps you are a bot and not a real person, which might explain it.

[Melwatk]

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“a huge weight around his neck further down the line.“

In a forum where most readers are women, who traditionally have had and still somewhat have a tougher ride is kind of surreal…

[juliantenniscoach]

I was speaking with someone about this very thing yesterday.  He was of the opinion that yes, demographic profiling is an active part of most City firms now whether it be banks, IT or law.