• Our commitment
• Our actions

Our commitment

The Financial Times (FT) has a global staff of around 1600, of whom 550 are editorial staff. Our mission is to be the gold standard in global business news and analysis, in print and online.

A key factor in realising this is in the recruitment and retention of the best possible people.

• We attract them through our reputation for integrity, quality and innovation.
• We retain them by creating a vibrant working environment that nurtures talent and provides opportunities for development.

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Our actions

Diversity council and training

The FT, as part of Pearson, has a proactive approach to diversity. Along with other companies, we are represented on a Pearson-wide diversity council.

Our management teams receive training on managing a diverse workforce, and we recently participated in a diversity training programme run by Smart Coaching International.

Pearson Diversity Summer Internship programme

We actively encourage diversity within our organisation; each year, we take part in the Pearson Diversity Summer Internship programme.

This is a UK-only programme run by our parent company Pearson. Each year, we recruit between five to nine interns across a range of departments, including Editorial.

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Love & Tate Skills Match programme

We also participate in the Love & Tate Skills Match programme, which gives new skills and valuable work experience to young people from in and around the borough of Tower Hamlets, London.

The programme has been successful at the FT: previous individuals who have come to work with us are now actively working in roles across the Pearson group.

FT Group won Business of the Year at the 2009 First Women Awards

The judges concluded that:

The FT Group is a business that inspires other women.

While the corporate boardrooms of Britain have, worryingly, seen a recent decline in female participation, this is a business with a high proportion of women on the management team.

And as for its front-line staff, this is a journalistic team of unparalleled judgement and ability.

This business, like all others in its sector, is wrestling with the dramatic change brought about by the shift of information online. Here again, it is at the forefront of thinking about how the media will meet the challenge of the digital age.

With such a group of women at its helm, how could it be anything but daring, imaginative and counter-intuitive.

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Recruitment initiatives

We have invested in a number of initiatives to help us attract and retain the best possible people.

Our new recruitment site, www.careersatft.com, is designed to:

• make roles more accessible to both internal and external candidates
• improve efficiency and reduce recruitment costs.

The new site contains videos, blogs and role profiles, as well as information about our benefits and development opportunities, so that potential candidates can gain a better understanding of life at the FT.

We nurture talent wherever we can. Each year, we fund a bursary to help students in financial need who want to complete an MA in Journalism at the London College of Communications.

We also take part in Pearson’s NewDirections programme, which helps Pearson people undertake a short-term assignment in a different part of the world.

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