Who gets on to the civil service fast stream?

As the 2018 civil service graduate scheme opens, we ask what kind of people are likely to be successfulThe 2018 civil service fast stream programme is now open, and if previous years are anything to go by, thousands of eager graduates will be considering whether to apply for one of the 15 schemes available.The fast stream programme is one of the UK’s most popular graduate schemes, with 32,450 applicants in 2016 (the most recent year for which figures are available). For the successful cand