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Table of Contents

• Events 🗓️

• Headlines 🗞️

• Candid Memes 🙂

• Employer Referrals 📨

• Founder Updates 👋🏾

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Events: Black Talent Programme Launch 🐙⚡️

We are back with the first in-person event of 2025 in London & Manchester courtesy of:

• One of the biggest UK energy providers

• A sustainability Asset Management firm

• An Electric Vehicles (EV) company

If you’ve been here from the get-go you can probably guess who!

These companies are going live with their Black Talent Programme for the 4th year running, and we are kicking things off with an in-person launch event in their London & Manchester office.

The programme is a 3-month summer internship dedicated to increasing Black representation in the energy sector. The internship could convert to a full-time role straight after, depending on performance.

If you are a...

• Student

• Career changer

• Recent graduate

• Full-time employee

Looking to explore career paths in the sustainability sector, then pull up to their offices to get some insider info directly from their employees and hiring managers.

Event details:

• Manchester: Tuesday 11th Mar 5:30pm to 9pm

• London: Thursday 14th Mar 5:30pm to 9pm

PS: There are very limited free early bird tickets, so act fast now or pay the price later (literally).

Headlines: Employer confidence heading in the ‘wrong direction’ as firms plan job cuts…

Job Market 💼

• Why is the UK shying away from pay transparency on job ads? (HR Grapevine)

• Citi becomes latest US company to abandon diversity targets (Financial Times)

• Employer confidence heading in the ‘wrong direction’ as firms plan job cuts (City AM)

• 'We're moving to a four-day week to attract staff' (BBC News)

• Workers’ rights: A third of small firms plan to cut jobs (City AM)

• Revolut Sticks With Hybrid Working, Bucking London’s Office Push (Bloomberg)

• Revolut is trolling JPMorgan with its work from home policy (efinancialcareers)

• Gen Z shuns full-time office work (LinkedIn News)

General Shenanigans 🚨

• Manchester United posts $7.80 million quarterly net loss (Reuters) - Ls on and off the field 🤦🏾‍♂️

• Reeves calls in top investment bankers for growth talks (City AM) - easiest finesse ever iykyk 😅

• Odds of 2024 YR4 asteroid hitting Earth rise again (Sky News) - in case you are feeling too alive ☺️

Abit Techie 👾

• Apple to launch new lower-cost iPhone to capture a broader market (Reuters) - 4 bills is not lower-cost 🙂

• OpenAI board considers special voting powers to prevent Elon Musk takeover (ARS Technica) - this man is a legit super villain 😭

• Should we use AI for everyday work tasks? (City AM) - careful what you wish for 🤧

• Another British bank is making staff reapply for their jobs. (efinancial careers) - yikes

• Meta to build world's longest undersea cable (Sky News) - these man always doing something lol

• DeepSeek accused of giving user data to TikTok owner (Sky News) - incoming US propaganda or nah?

Investment Heads 💸

• Could this be Lime's IPO moment? (LinkedIn News) - yo can I invest pre-IPO cause I am actually a loyal Lime stan now (been riding for 2 weeks)

Honourable Mention 🗣️

• Thinking Machines Lab is ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new startup (Tech Crunch)

• HR pros back AI in hiring, but corporate guidelines are holding them back (HR Grapevine)

• Microsoft to invest $700 million to boost Poland's cybersecurity (Reuters)

• This is the worst type of boss to work for, conflict experts say: ‘They’re never going to tell you they are upset’ (CNBC)

• Inflation rises to a high not seen in nearly a year - official figures (Sky News)

• Surprise rise in wages - as unemployment unexpectedly stays the same (Sky News)

• Europe risks becoming a ‘museum’ if it doesn’t innovate in AI and deregulate, Swedish PM warns (CNBC)

• Microsoft deploys new state of matter in its first quantum computing chip (CNBC)

• Nikola, a once-hyped EV-maker, has gone bankrupt (The Morning Brew)

• Prada Works With Advisers to Evaluate Possible Versace Bid (Bloomberg)

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 👋🏾

Meet the Yap Squad 🗣️ aka my unofficial work colleagues getting me through this entrepreneurship ting.

Coming to the office every day to yap with these guys makes the suffering slightly more bearable ❤️

Tunde is moving to Madrid, and I am jealous 😭💔

Appreciate you for making it to the end of the newsletter Gang.

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