Humanities majors: Someone likes you at Barclay’s Bank. Job hunting advice too.
This is what Matthew W. Barrett , CEO of Barclay’s Bank had to say:
Explore posts in the same categories: English majors, college, humanities, web logIf you can get me a young person who can divine the patterns of imagery in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, it would take me just a half hour to teach that person how to break down a balance sheet.
Teach kids the humanities, and give them a broad liberal education, and I’ll teach them business skills. I hate schools that have been co-opted by business. I’d rather you taught people to think, because the limiting factor in executive development these days is people who can’t do lateral thinking. Instead, they have a vocational skill or a technical skill, and it runs out of gas very, very early. The ones who will end up in the top 20 jobs in the organization worldwide are people who can stand back and examine the context in which business operates and can connect the dots in creative ways and transform the business congruent with some of those directions.
