Award Winning Marketing Leader / CMO / FCIM / Ex-Red Bull, Ex-BBC Marketing strategy, campaign delivery, team development & optimisation
One of the main reasons I joined Speakers for Schools is that it is an organisation that is striving to overcome one of the 'hidden' but most impactful barriers to progression in the workplace; your socio-economic background. Great work has been carried out over the past few decades to look at the barriers and inequality linked to gender, ethnicity and sexuality, but the one area that has been repeatedly overlooked is the impact of what your parental background was. Yet, new research by KPMG has once again demonstrated that the impact of an individual’s home background — measured by parental occupation — was greater than any other potential barriers to advancement Let's make sure that what Mum and Dad did no longer determines the outcomes for young people in the UK. Having a more equitable society is good for business by broadening perspectives, good for the individual and of course good for UK Plc by broadening the talent pool and making sure the most able and not just the most privileged get the chance to succeed. Check out the report below ⬇
A new study by KPMG has once again highlighted the size of the effect of socio-economic background on career progression, with individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds taking an average of 19 per cent longer to progress to the next grade. This, sadly, comes as no surprise to us. For too long, socio-economic background has been overlooked as a barrier to advancement, despite multiple sources of evidence demonstrating that it has a greater effect than any other. This is why meaningful work experience opportunities should be available for all state school students to raise aspirations and diversify talent pipelines. Read here🔽 https://lnkd.in/etB5agKN
Thanks for sharing this report Dan Walsh - it's something we don't talk about enough.
Strategic Communications Leader I Leadership, Partnership, Engagement I CIPR Board Director
1yThe attention this issue is getting is long overdue.