Jobs with no degree

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Off the back of another thread about the merits of university, can people suggest jobs with good future prospects that can lead to careers on par with professions that you don't need a degree for please.

I feel like anything remotely ambitious is held for those with degrees. Even if the degree is irrelevant to the role.

I'd love to hear about current roles that people can genuinely get that can lead onto well paying highly respected careers

Well OP on the flip side I have a degree (got a good result and did industrial placement) and it hasn’t opened doors for me.

I work in financial services for a well known bank and most people who do the same role as me don’t have degrees! Also many managers here don’t have degrees either.

My company does have a graduate scheme but it’s extremely competitive and only a very small % of applicants land a place. The rest of jobs here don’t require a degree

I’m also jobhunting now, and for majority of roles I’m applying for the degree hasn’t counted towards anything. (occasionally I see some ads which say degree preferred but even that’s less common).

From my experience its only with the prestigious graduate schemes or industrial placements, where you must have a degree.

Air traffic control.

Do you mind sharing what your role is and what the role of all the other people and the managers without degrees is. And what short of salary level you are all at ballpark. Because everyone I know in FS has not only a degree but one from a target university

I worked in a call centre that didn’t suit me at all, sil started around the same time and she’s a manager there now. It was for a mobile company and was totally wrong for me as wasn’t techy but she is on decent money. It has a high staff turnover as obviously you need a certain personality for it

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Factory work.

Are you maybe thinking of ‘prestigious’ areas of financial services eg investment banks / private equity?

All three FS employers I’ve worked for are large companies which have had a mix of graduate and non graduate employees. Some people join as school leavers or do an apprenticeship. Some people join another company first that takes them as a school leaver get some work experience, then just apply as experienced hire to my company.

I will say I’ve noticed with younger employees they were more likely to have a degree (probably because more people from younger generation go to uni than before) but they still often weren’t doing roles where a degree was compulsory. Very random mix of degrees which aren’t always linked to the job.

Apologies don’t want to out myself so being bit vague but I work at junior level within operations for a large bank. One manager title is ‘Operations Manager’ and another ‘Senior Operations Manager’, both don’t have degrees. One ‘Product Owner’ originally joined as a school leaver, doesn’t have a degree.

I previously worked in marketing department within FS too (people with roles such as ‘Digital Marketing Manager’, ‘SEO specialist’ didn’t have degrees).

I will say that someone who joins my company via the prestigious graduate scheme will have better training and opportunities though. Once they finish the grad scheme, they can land a ‘good’ job at higher scale with prospects far quicker than people who join via typical junior job route (less training and development, less opportunities available to apply for etc etc). I have always had great performance reviews, sought out extra curricular activities with my employer, mentoring and networking but there’s simply less prospects or opportunities available to me in my role. Not saying it’s impossible to “work your way up” (clearly not as the roles above I mentioned) but I do find graduate programmes offer far better prospects in companies I’ve worked at.
Not all graduates will land those competitive grad schemes though!

Non profit sector management.

Accountancy. Train on the job.

I completely y agree with this.