Employers hate private schools?

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In the fortunate position of choosing between one of the best private schools in the country, vs one of the best non-selective state schools in the country. Private school is affordable with sacrifices, which we’re happy to make, and it has all the expected advantages of better funding and selective intake, but the state school is also lovely.

To avoid this thread being bogged down by all the nuances of our choice, I’ll keep the question simple:

DH is convinced that employers dislike privately educated applicants. All things being equal, they’ll pick the state educated person. In other words, job applicants are disadvantaged by a private education.

Is this true? If so, how much better does a privately educated applicant have to be, for you to pick them?

DH is convinced that employers dislike privately educated applicants. All things being equal, they’ll pick the state educated person.

When reading CVs, I pay no attention to the schools/Universities applicants went to. To be honest, I pay very little attention to a degree. What's important for the roles I recruit for, is evidence that they can come through the door and do what's required.

I've got 2 jobs off the back of my university (Durham). Nobody had noticed or cared that I went to a local comp for high school or that I went to the top state sixth form in England because it happened to be 3 miles from my house.

KBut in my last job I interviewed an Oxford grad who also was on Uni Challenge. He was so smart and I passed his interview with flying colours. He failed miserably on the exam in the next stage. It’s just so subjective*.

Very true that intelligence comes in different forms.
Dh’s nephew is a maths lecturer but he tried to catch our whippet by running after her…..

@Mum090521

It's not Peter Symonds is it? It's huge so statistically sends large numbers to uni.

Yes a lot of the sixth form colleges in Hampshire do very well because they specialise in sixth form studies and obviously take in a lot of very bright 16 year olds.

My son swam with a friend who went to our local state sixth form college and secondary school and ended up at Warwick studying Maths. One of the boys whose parents were in my NCT baby group and were loaded and sent him to very expensive private schools has also ended up studying Maths at Warwick.

He might do better in life, but probably only because the pressure is off a bit when you know your parents can bail you out if necessary.

People always say that kids who go to private schools have more confidence, but is that down to the schools or down to the fact that their parents have money and it's easier to be confident about your place in the world when you've never had to struggle for money?

Any employer who hates private school candidates is a tosser - no one chooses what school they attend. That's like employing people on the basis of what their parents decided when the candidate turned 11.

Some employers might find the veneer of confidence and pushiness (that some private schools foster) a bit abrasive but others will find it useful and dynamic in the work place.

I sent DC to a private school because that particular school helped them use their brains and think in a way no other schools I looked at would have done. They have both been told at uni how well they think and tackle a problem intellectually. I hope that skill will be valuable in the workplace. And DS2 in particular is the absolute antithesis of the braying toff with his rugby thighs crammed into a hand made suit.