Young queer journalists are being encouraged to apply for the
Financial Times’ Paul McClean graduate trainee programme, a unique opportunity to shore up skills at one of the world’s leading business publications.
With under-25s seeing sharp rises in unemployment and graduate job vacancies drying up, it can seem that career prospects are shrinking. Fast.
But not so at the
Named after one of the
Financial Times‘ most promising graduate trainees, who sadly passed away in 2017, the scheme sees successful candidates emerge as qualified journalists in just three years.
The graduate programme was launched in 1986 – and two of the first three graduate trainees are still there today.