Brown Brothers Harriman

Getting Hired

Tips from the inside

From all corners
The firm utilizes “multiple resources” to traffic in top-shelf candidates.  Brown Brother Harriman recruits via “colleges,” “job fairs,” “internal postings and referrals,” “Internet job boards” and even “cold-call recruiting.”  But no matter how they get them, the firm “is known for selecting candidates from the top schools around the world and certainly in the U.S.,” says a source.  “This is also true of the institutional equities business, on the sales desk in particular.  The recent history of hiring patterns in institutional equities has shown somewhat of an Ivy League bias in sales.”  On the flip side, another insider notes that not all departments are so stringent.  “In research I think they look for something a little less traditional.  I think they are just looking for really good thinkers, maybe with a flair for the creative, no matter what school they went to.”