JPMorgan looks beyond finance to hire tech, math grads in Asia

(Mar 28): JPMorgan Chase & Co. is hiring more engineering, neuroscience and psychology graduates across Asia-Pacific, diversifying away from students with finance backgrounds as it seeks to adapt its workforce to the region’s fast-changing economies.

Of the roughly 1,000 graduates who will start in JPMorgan’s class of 2018 this June, 39% have degrees in subjects other than business or finance, the highest proportion in data going back three years. Instead, this group comprises scientists and mathematicians, and students of international relations and psychology. The data excludes India, where technology hires typically dominate.

As finance and technology converge and politics and regulations play an ever-increasing role in banking, the need for people schooled in disciplines ranging from computing to political science is growing, said John Hall, who co-heads the New York-based bank’s Asia-Pacific investment banking unit.

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