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happy friday Gang :)

i have a backlog of shoutouts to get through, so this is about to be a girthy intro (⏸️ i think), but tradition is tradition, so shoutout to…

Asher, Leah, Danielle, Nyasha who i bumped into at Samsung, Uncle at Alive Church letting me know that he follows me on socials, Demi at Alive Church saying hi, Raphael for spotting me at Alive Church, Project Manager Chris who i bumped into on my way to the office, Mohammed who I bumped into at WeWork, Abdul who caught me slipping at After Hours New Cross, Esther who clocked me in the barber shop, Beverley who clocked me at Worship Tabernacle church, Niayomi who i bumped into during the fire alarm at Octopus Energy’s Manny office - he got a full-time gig through Beyond Education!, Ruffine for winning our LinkedIn competition, our Scottish reader Bethany (don’t worry we got some roles coming your way real soon!) and Sai + the OE team organising a banger of events!

finally shoutout to Laetitia who clocked me at Octopus Energy’s office yesterday and said i better shout her out, heyyy 👋🏾

i had a smile on my face going through this list :) i appreciate each and every one of you that bumps into me in public and share kind words about the content, means a lot!

let’s get into today, shall we ⬇️

Table of Contents

• Events 🗓️

• Who's Hiring 💼

• Top Pick 💯

• Headlines 🗞️

• Candid Memes 🙂

• Employer Referrals 📨

• Founder Updates 👋🏾

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Events: Event turnout, employer introductions & application support

a big shoutout to everyone who pulled up to the Manchester and London event.

The reach we have with content is always so surprising to me.
↳ people from Liverpool, Nottingham, Leicester, YORK were at the event 😅 

Someone said their Uncle told them about the event
↳ shoutout to Paris for being the Uncle lol

forever humbled by the impact we are creating.

now look. the…

applications are LIVE for not 1 but 2 of our employer partners
↳Octopus Energy Group & IQ-EQ

and they close on the 1st of April midnight.

before you run off to click apply…
chill out. take a touch.

we’ve organised a week of virtual events for you to get application support from the hiring teams, previous interns and a career coach to make sure #nodeadapplications are submitted.

if I were you, I’d sign up for ALL the sessions before applying, especially if you weren’t at the in-person events.

• Monday 17th March 6pm - 7pm: IQ-EQ Employer Introduction

• Tuesday 18th March 6pm - 8pm: IQ-EQ Application Support

• Wednesday 19th March 6pm - 7:30pm: Octopus Energy Group Employer Introduction

• Thursday 20th March 6pm - 8pm: Octopus Energy Group Application Support

• Friday 21st March ALL DAY: Free will to apply to all the jobs available 🫡

if you are anxious about the application deadline and feel confident that have all the info you need, feel free to apply now, but PLEASE #nodeadapplications

ps: pictures from the events will be available next week via email, so be sure to tag @Corporate Steve on socials and @Beyond Education (BE) on LinkedIn to make your network jealous.

Who’s Hiring: Corporate job translations

Weekly Top 10: internships open to students, career changers, recent graduates, and full-time employees. Potential to convert internships to full-time depending on performance 🫡

1. Investment Compliance Consulting Internship, £29,000, London

   • Exposure to high net worth clients

   • Exposure to the investment world

   • Very interesting role in my opinion

2. Portfolio Management Internship, £28,000, London

   • Asset Management gig in the fund team

   • Investments and all the exotic stuff

3. Finance Internship, £28,000, London

   • Operational Finance in the Electric Vehicles (EV) space

   • Dealing with investments, customer contracts etc.

4. ESG Internship, £28,000, London

   • Again another undercover sexy role in Asset Management

   • Making sure investments are woke for societal standards

   • Very niche upcoming field so you get to define it really

5. Asset Management Internship, £28,000, London

   • Self-explanatory really

   • Everything you think it is

   • Investments and all the exotic stuff

6. Forecasting Data Scientist Internship, £28,000, London

   • Data Analyst but on steroids

   • Predicting the future basically

   • Goodluck lol

7. Legal & Company Secretary, £28,000, London

   • Broad legal support role in Asset Management

   • Great alternative to the Trainee Solicitor route

   • Doesn’t look sexy on paper but you’ll be surprised

8. Account Executive Internship, £28,000, London

   • Customer Service but sexier title

   • Little bit of Operations & Sales

   • In the EV space

9. Marketing Internship, £28,000, London

   • Marketing innit, no other way to put it lol

10. Content Creator Internship, £28,000, London

    • Basically an influencer for the company

    • Plus copywriting as well

    • Suitable for anyone interested in marketing too

FYI, Octopus Energy Group said:

Top Picks: Employment pathways & live applications

📈 Internship to the full-time pathway: IQ-EQ, a global investment services firm, is hiring final-year students (graduating in 2025) and working professionals in their Investment Compliance Consulting division. pull up to the virtual employer introduction session and application support session next week on Monday & Tuesday to find out more details and get some support before you apply.

🐙 Black talent pathway: Octopus Energy Group, a global sustainability group, has gone live with applications for their Black Talent Programme with roles in Finance, Tech, Operations, Customer Service, Account Management, HR, Content Creation, Marketing…i can keep going on! if you missed the in-person launch events, pull up to the virtual employer introduction and application support sessions next week Wednesday & Thursday to find out more details and get some support before you apply.

📝 Applications are LIVE: applications are open for both employers, so if you feel like you’ve got all the info you need and are feeling confident, feel free to shoot your shot. Please READ the job description carefully and follow all instructions. i am already seeing dead applications!

Headlines: Hella job cuts, more UK taxes & AI going crazyyy

Job Market 💼

• PWC cuts partners and apprenticeships amid slow demand (City AM) - you know times are tuff when partners are getting cut 😭

• Remote row | London-based manager unfairly sacked after Cornwall WFH dispute (HR Grapevine) - ooo work drama ☕️

• Bank of America just cut 100+ analysts & associates in its investment bank (efinancialcareers) - treacherous times rn

• Financial wellbeing | A third of Brits would prefer weekly pay amid end-of-month money struggles (HR Grapevine) - personally i prefer daily pay with no work :)

• The cover letter that will get you a job in a bank (efinancialcareers) - we got banking roles dropping soon!

• "I lost my equity sales job because I didn't frequent a pretentious London club" (efinancialcareers) - game is game bro lock in!

• Should you accept a position with a long commute? (LinkedIn News)

• Jobs market downturn continues as hiring slows again (HR Grapevine)

• Deutsche Bank’s highest-paid employee in line to earn nearly twice as much as chief (Financial Times)

• Plan to cut thousands of civil service jobs in radical government shake-up (The Guardian)

• Exclusive: Citigroup plans to slash IT contractors, hire staff to improve controls (Reuters)

General Shenanigans 🚨

• Reeves told to scrap ‘jobs tax’ after headline figures questioned (City AM) - bruh the UK has so many taxes even HMRC can’t keep up 😵‍💫

• Keir Starmer abolishes NHS England to bring health service back to ‘heart of government’ – Up to 10,000 jobs at risk (The Independent)

Abit Techie 👾

• Google DeepMind unveils new AI models in race to make robots useful (Financial Times) - scaryyy

• Investors Want a Piece of DeepSeek. Its Founder Says Not Now. (Wall Street Journal) - it seems everyone wants a piece of China these days

• AI agents: meet your new (cheaper) colleague (City AM)

• DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next (ARS Technica)

• Upskilling for the AI age is for ‘every generation’ — not just the young, says Singapore minister (CNBC)

Investment Heads 💸

• Reeves told to scrap ‘jobs tax’ after headline figures questioned (City AM) - bruh the UK has so many taxes even HMRC can’t keep up

• In another chess move with Microsoft, OpenAI is pouring $12B into CoreWeave (TechCrunch) - money must not be real for these man at this point

• ‘You want to become billionaires? List on NSE,” says Ashish Chauhan, CEO of India’s National Stock Exchange (CNBC) - I don’t think it’s that straightforward but Billionaire method dropped I guess lol

Honourable Mention 🗣️

• Apple Readies Dramatic Software Overhaul for iPhone, iPad and Mac (Bloomberg UK)

• How the AI Talent Race Is Reshaping the Tech Job Market (Wall Street Journal)

• Meet Canada’s central banker turned Prime Minister(Morning Brew

• I have 5 income streams and make over $1 million from Amazon alone: My No. 1 advice for starting a side hustle (CNBC)

• US tech firms feel pinch from China tariffs (BBC News)

• Trump threatens tariffs on European wine and spirits in escalating trade war (Reuters)

Headlines curated by Isobel 🤝

Candid Memes 🙂

Employer Referrals 📨

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 ⬇️

Founder Updates: Brand trip to Manneh

this week felt like a blur because I was occupied with the events we were running but the highlight for me has to be the expensed Manchester trip for me and the team courtesy of Octopus Energy group. Can’t believe this is actually my life lol. anyways get real time insight on my day to day via Instagram.

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