Barclays UK Making careers accessible

Mike Thompson – Early Careers Director

Barclays Apprenticeships - Making Careers Accessible to Everybody

Why are Apprenticeships & Diversity important to Barclays?

SOCIETAL IMPACT

RETENTION

TALENT

SOCIETYCHALLENGE NORMS

COLLEAGUES

CUSTOMERS

Challenging perceptions

Real stories, real people, real impact

New Role Models

Able to Enable – a focus on the present and the future

Barclays Reach Network

• Support and develop colleagues impacted by disabilities

• Engage colleagues in the disability agenda

• Contribute to wider business diversity & accessibility strategy

Barclays Able to Enable

• 13-week Internship Programme

• London Pilot November 2016

• Focus on making the programme scalable in 2017

• Launch event 1st December 2016

Thank You