Halo Gang,

I know I know I am extremely late today.

I am sorry innit!

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• Shoutouts

• Friday Yap 🗣️

• Who’s Hiring 💼

• BE Picks 📌

• Headlines 🗞️

• Candid Memes 🙂

• Employer Referrals 📨

• CEO Updates 💸

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Shoutouts 🗣️

• Rita: Who recognised me during her shift in Starbucks and made me the best short white semi-skimmed mocha I have ever tasted 😍

• Moses: Who spotted me in Vauxhall Starbucks

• Sharntay: Securing a new role!

  

Maybe I will shout you out next Gang 👀

Friday Yap 🗣️

Why do Men get paid more than Women?

One word: ✨ Audacity ✨

Google definition: Courage to take bold risks

My definition:

Men: *Meets 50% of the criteria* → Apply

Women: *Meets 99% of the criteria* → Doesn’t Apply

There have been real-life studies & research on this.

According to a 2019 LinkedIn report, men apply for 20% more jobs than women despite meeting all the criteria.

I have also witnessed it first-hand with people I mentor.

Guys tend to have high levels of confidence.

While the girls are slightly more conservative.

So today, I am plugging opportunities specifically for the Ladies.

To get your confidence levels all the way up 🔝 

PAID 4-day insight programmes in Finance & Tech:

• Women in Tech Spring Insight Programme First Year Digital Business Services (Sheffield)

• Women in Tech Spring Insight Programme Penultimate Year Digital Business Services (Sheffield)

• Women in Tech Spring Insight Programme Final Year Digital Business Services (Sheffield)

• Women In Banking Spring Insight Programme Wealth and Personal Banking (Birmingham)

• Women in Banking Insight Programme Commercial Banking (Birmingham)

The way to get PAID is by…

• Taking risks

• Going after what you want

• And being audacious as f***

This is applicable in…

• Business

• Your career

• And even life

So be audacious and apply to these programmes ASAP

PS: Applications close next week!

Who’s Hiring 💼

Weekly top 10 list:

1. Paid Insight Experience in London, Sheffield & Birmingham

   • For 1st & 2nd year students

   • If you missed out on internship apps…

   • This is a good entry point for the get back 🤝

2. Chief Administrative Office Analyst Programme, Manchester

   • Analyst with an executive view on things

   • Very underrated role right here

3. Software Engineering Internship, Manchester

   • No one trying to go into tech anymore or what?

   • Is everyone scared of layoffs?

   • Dw barely happens in Finance like that x

4. People Team Internship, Manchester

   • HR quite simply

5. Chief Commercial Office Analyst Programme, London

   • Sales with the big dawgsss

6. Chief Commercial Office Intern, London

   • Same as above!

7. Asset Servicing Analsyt Programme, London

   • Basically MOT in finance.

8. Asset Servicing Analsyt Programme, Manchester

   • Basically MOT in finance but in Manchester lol

9. Markets & Wealth Services Intern, Manchester

   • Little bit of this little bit of that

   • To investments as a whole

10. Operations Internship, Manchester

    • Y’all stay sleeping on this but this is an easy way in tbh

BE Picks 📌

1. Upcoming Insight Sessions: Project Management 101 with Vanessa

2. Paid Insight Programmes: Paid finance & tech shadowing experience for 1st/2nd/3rd year students now available at Beyond Education (applications close soon!)

3. Marketing Newsletter: My twin (yes, I have a twin) just launched a newsletter for all the Marketing enthusiasts:
   

   • Jobs in the creative space

   • The latest social media news

   • Marketing insights & Campaign breakdowns

And so much more!

Headlines 🗞️

Job Market 💼

• Big 4 firm to cut more UK advisory roles after slashing hundreds last month (City AM) - prayers with our big 4 members

• London financial services jobs increased by 30% since 2019. So why does it feel so bad? (efinancialcareers) - nah honestly let’s talk about it 🤧

• Seven-year-old gets job offer from Russian IT firm (BBC News) - I can’t even say your age mates Gang 😭

• ‘Grey corporate hellscape’ | Starling Bank staff resign as new CEO demands more in-office work - despite insufficient desk space (HR Grapevine) - she said y’all finna squeeze in here by force 😬

• Are employee referrals actually taken seriously? (LinkedIn News) - real hit & miss tbh

• Stealth firing or ethical dismissal? Why employers terminate staff for minor offences (Financial Times) - population control 🙃

• Spike in PwC partners taking early retirement amid Big Four slowdown (City AM)

• European companies cut jobs as economy sputters (Reuters)

General Shenanigans 🚨

• 1m 'lost' workers | Missing labour market data 'overstating' scale of UK's economic inactivity, think tank says (HR Grapevine) - been saying UK’s economic growth is propaganda 🥱

• HMRC pays out nearly £1m in tax fraud tip-offs (City AM) - where does one sign up to be a snitch? (asking for a friend)

• What's the beef with farmers' inheritance tax? (Sky News) - I don’t own a farm but let’s hear it 😅

• Britain needs more start-up support (City AM)

• Starmer’s war on farmers will end in tears (City AM)

• MPs flag ‘major concerns’ over errors in labour survey (City AM)

Abit Techie 👾

• Could the digitisation of social care pave the way for a better NHS? (City AM) - yes duh!

• Plans worth £200m revealed by Imperial College London and Bruntwood SciTech (City AM)

• What could Google monopoly ruling mean for you? (BBC News)

• How AI can let you speak with space (Sky News)

Investment Heads 💸

• Bitcoin approaches $100,000 on optimism over Trump crypto plans (Reuters)

• European tech funding stabilizes after three straight years of declines (BBC News)

• Gold surges over broader Ukraine war fears; tech stocks rebound (Reuters)

• How does the government borrow money? (BBC News)

• Friday’s big stock stories: What’s likely to move the market in the next trading session (CNBC)

• CNBC Daily Open: Expectations can move shares in strange ways — just look at Nvidia (CNBC)

Honourable Mention 🗣️

• 28-year-old spent $30,000 to launch a business from her living room—now it brings in $9 million a year (CNBC) - step 1) have $30,000 😬

• Ofgem consults fund to speed up UK power projects (City AM)

• The unusual question Goldman Sachs is asking in 2024 job interviews (efinancialcareers)

• Which interview questions do private equity funds ask? (efinancialcareers)

• UK inflation jumps to 2.3%, underscoring BoE's stance for gradual rate cuts (Reuters)

• Google must sell Chrome to restore competition in online search, DOJ argues (Reuters)

• Jaguar rebrand shows the risk of embracing the fleeting ‘now’ (City AM)

• Sign of slowing economy as budget and weather meant surprise fall in retail sales (Sky News)

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 ⬇️

CEO Updates 💸

No long ting from me today.

• Had a private tour of Eton College to see how the privileged are living courtesy of Annisha 💜

• Very productive meetings for renewals and 2025 partnerships

• We are very close to £100k in the bank account by Q1 for sure!

• Have a recent unhealthy obsession with an English brekky

Also can you tell I am trying to get North Face to sponsor me?
↳ Anyone got links? 😬

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