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

Table of Contents

• General Updates

• Who's Hiring

• Events

• Headlines

• Meme Flow

• Feedback

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General Updates

An information-packed write-up this week!

But first, a quick shoutout to:

• 7 new subscribers, I promise I won’t let you down!

• Lynette for letting me know that she dosen’t read the entire newsletter. Appreciate the honesty :)

• Alimat, one of the first volunteers at Beyond Education who still reads the weekly write-ups.

• Marion making me aware that the price of oil has gone up so we need more jobs! It’s coming I promise just bare with me x

On a separate note, a lot of people always ask: “How can I help Beyond Education”

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 ⬇️

But here’s the gist:

1. Introduce me (Stephen if that wasn’t clear lol) to a relevant contact(s) within your organisation or network

   
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   → Head of DEI
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   Or anyone with these terms in their job title.
   

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Enjoy the rest of the newsletter, and have a great weekend 🫡

Who’s Hiring

Disclaimer: Make sure your application is patterned. Dead CV, Cover Letters & question answers will most likely get aired #sorrynotsorry

• Brand Partnerships Intern, London (£23,000)

• Digital Marketing & Data Intern, London (£23,000)

• Finance Intern, London (£23,000)

PS: Scroll to the full length of the page to find the role you are interested in.

Events

We're outside this summer! We’ve partnered with The UK Black Business Show to get you networking on!

The Birmingham Black Business Show, part of the UK Black Business Show, is the leading event for Black entrepreneurs and professionals. Over 3,000 attendees and over 200+ exhibitors showcase their businesses on the day.

There will be a number of amazing speakers lined up, plus sponsor firms like HSBC, Lloyds Bank, Business Growth West Midlands and other notable names.

💼 Careers zone & business hub for valuable insights
🎤 Panel discussions with industry experts
🎶 Notable industry keynote speakers
🔧 Engaging workshops

Deets: Saturday 15th June 2024 at Birmingham NEC

Whether you are trying to:

• Secure a job opportunity

• Meet potential investors

• Make some friends

You don’t want to miss this upcoming event!

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Headlines 🗞️

Interesting stuff in the news this week:

The news was ACTIVE this week! Enjoy ⬇️

Job Market 💼

• City managing directors are being deprived of their executive assistants (efinancial careers)…oh no how will they cope with their £500k+ salaries + bonus

• The qualifications you need to get a job and get ahead as an investment banker (efinancial careers)…quite an interesting read

• Junior bankers berated for 10.30am arrival after working until 4am (efinancial careers)…yikes tough crowd

• The fintech still doing big hiring in London is... JPMorgan (efinancial careers)

• How compliance became the worst place to work in banking (efinancial careers)…I want y’all to just peep the salaries

• Careers site Indeed to lay off 1,000 workers (City AM)…welp

• Graduate visa ‘does not offer any skills value’ to UK labour market, MP claims (City AM)

• Lloyds defends return-to-office mandate as staff engagement falls (City AM)

• What are young lawyers being paid in the City? (City AM)

• Citi exec who fired 5,000 bankers is gone herself (efinancial careers)

• Kellogg’s to cut hundreds of jobs as it announces closure of major factory (City AM)

• Inside the relaunched plans to create 8,000 jobs next to Manchester Airport (City AM)

General Shenanigans 🚨

• FCA have been charged social media influencers in relation to promotions of unauthorised investments (BBC)…that will do it

• Kemi Badenoch threatens to block Royal Mail deal to foreign owners unless guarantees are issued (City AM)…I wonder why people don’t like doing business in the UK…

• Bumble's billboard ads made fun of celibacy as an alternative to dating. It didn't go down well (Business Insider)…someone defo got fired

• Netflix scores rights to screen NFL Christmas Day games (City AM)…this is pretty cool

• HS2: Cancelling London Euston section would pile pressure on Elizabeth Line, advisers warn (City AM)…the same Elizabeth line that’s cancelling trains every other day already?

• Inactivity, productivity and jobs: London’s economic disparities revealed in five graphs (City AM)…does anyone understand these graphs lol

Abit Techie 👾

• Sony Music Group open to licence agreements with AI developers (City AM)

Investment Heads 💸

• Gamestop shares rocket as meme stock rally engineer ‘Roaring Kitty’ returns (City AM)…convinced the stock market is just simulation…well it is but you know what I mean…

• Prime London property prices to rebound as inflation subsides (City AM)…they can keep the properties to themselves man

• Shein favours London for blockbuster IPO (City AM)…for the Shein girlies

• London markets set for muted opening as global stock rally cools down (City AM)

• Gary Neville breaks Manchester office record for a second time with S&P Global deal (City AM)

• Royal Mail owner ‘minded’ to accept raised £3.5bn takeover offer by Czech billionaire (City AM)

• GSK raises £1.25bn as it offloads final stake in Haleon (City AM)

Candid Memes

Feedback

Till next time gang ✌🏾

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