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Happy Friday Gang,  

Quick summary if you can’t be asked to read the whole thing:

Table of Contents

• Shoutouts

• Free Game

• Who's Hiring

• BE Picks

• Headlines

• Meme Flow

• Employer Referrals

• General Updates

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Shoutouts 🗣️

• Faz: For the office space plug

• Martin: For contribution to this week’s meme flow

• Abi: For the email intro to her work’s HR team

  • Doing her bit to make her workplace more diverse

  • If you want to be like Abi, follow these simple steps

Free Game 🫡

Cheating is actually not as bad as you think gang…

Most successful companies (and people) are serial cheats.

But in the corporate world, it’s not viewed as cheating.

It’s a competitive advantage to beat the competition.

Quick example:

• Google paying Apple and a bunch of other tech companies to be the default search engine on their devices.

Google’s competitive advantage is money.

Is it fair for other competitors? No

But life isn’t fair, so grow up.

A more relatable example in the context of job searching:

• Connect with a professional in a role & company you are applying for

• Ask for the CV & Cover Letter that helped them bag an interview

• Ask what interview questions came up + the right answers

Bonus: Ask for a referral to be fast-tracked in the process
↳ On average, 39.9% of referred employees are hired

These are all cheat codes, aka competitive advantages.

That will put you ahead of other job seekers, aka your competition.

I’ve been updating our members portal with a bunch of cheat codes to help job seekers (& working professionals if you don’t like your job lol)

Over 70+ resources:

• Original CVs & Cover letters that have got people jobs

• Virtual insight recordings across different industries

• Interview questions and answers

All accessible with one click

Use these resources to apply for jobs I am referring you to.

And increase your chances of getting hired.

So what are you waiting for…

Go cheat ASAP

PS: I do not condone cheating of any other kind🙂

Who’s Hiring 💼

Weekly top 10 list:

1. Operations Specialist, Sheffield

   • You are a doer of stuff

2. Logistics Operations, Hinckley

   • Who knows where Hinckley is lol

   • Apparently, it’s near Cardiff or Leicester??

3. Customer Operations, Brighton

   • Electric cars, people…what’s not to like?

4. Energy Operations, Manchester

   • Keeping the lights on…literally

5. Customer Service Specialist, Coventry

   • Chief problem solver

6. Supply Chain Portfolio Analyst, Leicester

   • 🔥Tuff🔥 title to be honest

7. TechOps Generalist, London

   • Another 🔥Tuff🔥 title

   • IT support but sexier

8. Partnerships Development Manager, London

   • Sales but sexier (kind off)

9. Retail Software Engineer, London

   • Self-explanatory

10. Electric Vehicle Leasing, London

    • Convince you boy to stop paying for petty

    • Go green. Go electric. It’s a flex now.

BE Picks 📌

1. Join the waitlist to get the drop on new jobs going live

   • Largest European-based bank by assets 💸

   • Hiring in London, Sheffield & Birmingham

   • Spring insights, Internships, grad roles

   • Potential in-person event soon 👀

   • 1 month till applications go live

2. Your sign to enter your LinkedIn influencer era

3. We recently launched a WhatsApp GC

   • For job seekers & working professionals

   • To create more community and network

   • It’s a secret for now, so keep it on the low

   Join the community

Headlines 🗞️

Interesting stuff in the news this week:

→ Finance & Law firms are making moneyyyy
→ Companies fake interviewing candidates
→ CEO paying interns $25k a month

Job Market 💼

• The interview questions of big time hedge funds (efinancial careers)…for any aspiring quants out there

• Hedge fund CEO paying interns $25k a month (efinancial careers)…someone said the UK could never

• Bank sued for fake-interviewing diversity candidates for high paying jobs (efinancial careers)…what is it, haven’t you done enough!

• Banks are hiring associates again (efinancial careers)…any unemployed bankers?

• Standard Chartered now wants Gen Z for hybrid jobs (efinancial careers)…anyone got intro links? Tell them to shout me innit

• UK cyber industry dominated by men (LinkedIn News)…ok what’s going on here, we need to fix some sh*t

• Staff illness cost UK £100bn in 2023 (LinkedIn News)…propaganda to make everyone come back to the office or nah?

• Junior doctors ‘offered 22 per cent pay rise’ to end strikes (City AM)…a win is a win I guess

General Shenanigans 🚨

• UK Finance Lead: ‘I think we will have to increase taxes’ (City AM)…well that’s reassuring lol

• Dentons‘ UK, Ireland, and Middle East (UKIME) has reported increased revenue (City AM)

• Mishcon de Reya Magic revenue soars to £300m (City AM)…so Law firms are making money money is what I am hearing…

Abit Techie 👾

• Taco Bell to roll out AI drive-thrus at hundreds of stores (Sky News)…can anyone do half price? asking for a friend…

• Octopus Energy tech arm to name CEO as valuation soars (Sky News)…always great to see our clients killing it 🐙🚀

• European tech stocks fall to six-month low (Reuters)…Finance making killing whilst tech is getting killed…interesting

• Apple sales rise 5%, topping estimates as iPad and Services revenues jump (CNBC)…Apple said yh we are still making money lol

Investment Heads 💸

• London private equity professionals foresee a way of avoiding Labour's tax plans (efinancial careers)…trust capitalism to always find a way lol

• Intel shares tank after chipmaker announces over 15,000 job cuts (City AM)…double yikes!

• Bank of England cuts interest rates (City AM)…all I am seeing is reduced inflation for business benefit, what this mean for regular schmegular consumers?

• Axa reports over £50bn in revenue amid talk to sell to BNP Paribas (City AM)…ok so it looks like Q3 is schmoney season for corporate cause bruh!

• Parcel delivery group Yodel secures £85m funding deal (Sky News)…they should borrow Evri some money so they stop losing my parcels!

Candid Memes

How YOU can help!

A lot of people always ask: “How can I help Beyond Education”

Simply put: Introduce me to relevant contact(s) in your corporate job who are responsible for DEI & hiring.

It’s that simple!

To make this easy, I’ve created a simple 1-page summary on Notion.

With intro templates, helpful links & relevant details to help more underrepresented talent access opportunities with inclusive employers 🚀

Access the 1-pager here ⬇️

General Updates 📢

This week has been a productive one for your boy.

We recently moved into an office space with a fancy ass view thanks to this guy:

Connect with Faz and check out Coding with Codex to level up your Tech game 🫡

If you made it to the end of the newsletter, reply back with “typeshiii”

Till next time gang

PS: If you want me to know your name instead of calling you ‘gang’ - update this form, it’s not by force tho x

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