- Date published:
- March 2025
- Organisation:
- UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities
- Authors:
- Catherine Dilnot, Lindsey Macmillan, Claire Tyler
- Sectors:
- All
- Themes:
- Social Mobility
New CEPEO research published today, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, highlights the important role played by employer recruitment practices in driving inequalities in access to professional occupations by socio-economic background and ethnicity.
Using data on over 250,000 applicants for entry-level roles in 17 large employers in the UK, spanning both the public and private sectors, the research shows that applicants for entry-level roles in these firms are largely representative of the broader graduate population. However, inequalities emerge and widen at each stage of the application process.