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happy friday Gang :)

limited commentary on headlines because everything kinda looks serious this week lol.

shoutout to Viandro from Amsterdam giving positive feedback on the newsletter and the guy i met in mid-week service who is part of the WhatsApp GC.

let’s get into it ⬇️

Table of Contents

• Announcements 📣

• Who's Hiring 💼

• Top Pick 💯

• Headlines 🗞️

• Candid Memes 🙂

• Employer Referrals 📨

• Founder Updates 👋🏾

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Announcements: Consulting applications closing soon ‼️

short and sweet one today.

IQ-EQ is actively recruiting in their Investment, Compliance & Consulting division.

🤩 3-month PAID internship
💸 pays £7k for the summer
🤌🏾 with a full-time role after
↳ depending on performance.

the programme is eligible for:

• third-year students graduating in 2025

• Working professionals looking for a new role.

• people interested in investments, compliance & consulting

applications close on Sunday, 6th April midnight.

please READ the full job description before you apply because dead applications will get aired 😤

Good luck 🫡

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. Operations Internship, £24,900, Manchester

   • A little bit of this a little bit of that

   • If you are still unsure of what to choose

   • Best entry point to be exposed to everything

3. Operations Internship, £28,000, London

   • Same as above

   • Plus a lot of headcount here

   • So increased chance of getting in

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

   • Asset Management gig in the fund team

   • Investments and all the exotic stuff

5. Finance Internship, £28,000, London

   • Operational Finance in the Electric Vehicles (EV) space

   • Dealing with investments, customer contracts etc.

6. 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

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

   • Self-explanatory really

   • Everything you think it is

   • Investments and all the exotic stuff

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

   • Data Analyst but on steroids

   • Predicting the future basically

   • Goodluck lol

9. 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

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

    • Customer Service but sexier title

    • Little bit of Operations & Sales

    • In the EV space

11. Marketing Internship, £28,000, London

    • Marketing innit, no other way to put it lol

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

    • Basically an influencer for the company

    • Plus copywriting as well

    • Suitable for anyone interested in marketing too

Top Picks: Event replays, application deadlines & more events

📹 Virtual Event Replays: Shoutout to everyone that pulled up to the employer introduction and application support sessions hosted by the amazing career coach Farrah! Good engagement, insightful questions and one step closer to bagging an offer! Here’s access to resources and a replay of all the sessions for those that missed it:

• IQ-EQ employer intro

• IQ-EQ application support

• Octopus Energy Group employer intro

• Octopus Energy Group application support

• CV & Cover Letter templates

‼️ Applications are CLOSING: IQ-EQ and Octopus Energy are actively recruiting in Investment, Compliance, Consulting, Marketing, Operations, Tech and the list goes on! There is an opportunity to secure full-time roles straight after depending on performance. Applications close in a couple of weeks so get applying and don’t miss your chance but please READ the job description carefully and follow all instructions because #deadapplications get aired! Access applications here.

💸 Financial Times Event: Join The Careerguard for an exclusive Insight Day at the Financial Times on April 16, 2025, in London. Open to students aged 16+, this event offers behind-the-scenes access to one of the world’s top news organisations. Expect interactive sessions, networking with FT professionals, and tips on how to stand out in applications. Access tickets here.

PS: Here are the pics from the Manchester & London in-person event with Octopus Energy Group 🐙⚡️🌎

Headlines: Stranded astronauts, WFH issues & expensive sick pay

Job Market 💼

• The job-hopping pay bump is gone (Morning Brew) - the game is gone foreal 😭

• Wellbeing | Work-related ill-health costing the UK economy over £400m a week (HR Grapevine) - looks like everyone needs to lock in

• London firms struggling to recruit staff as people want to WFH (City AM)

• As Bank of America follows Barclays, empaths to manage Gen Z are the new key people (efinancicalcareers)

• The $140k side hustle that helps get a hedge fund job (efinanncialcareers)

• Skills on the Rise in marketing (LinkedIn News)

• Skills on the Rise in finance (LinkedIn News)

• Skills on the Rise in information technology (IT) (LinkedIn News)

• More than a fifth of UK adults still not looking for work (BBC News)

General Shenanigans 🚨

• Stranded astronauts have just returned to a very different world (Sky News) - forgot about these man lol

• London closes in on New York as top financial hub but risks remain (City AM)

• PM’s growth rhetoric does not match reality (City AM)

• Director charged with $11m Netflix fraud (Morning Brew)

• Google agrees to pay $28m in racial bias lawsuit (BBC News)

Abit Techie 👾

• How the AI Boom Created the Most Valuable Monopolies in History (Bloomberg UK)

• Natwest partners with OpenAI as FTSE giant scales up tech (City AM)

• Klarna to IPO in big bet on AI workers (Morning Brew)

• Google buys Wiz in its biggest acquisition ever (Morning Brew)

• Nvidia, GM announce deal for AI, factories and next-gen vehicles (CNBC)

Investment Heads 💸

• Global debt exceeds $100 trillion as interest costs surge, OECD says (Reuters)

• Bank of England holds interest rates amid low growth and trade tensions (City AM)

• Interest rates will go down gradually, says Bank (BBC News)

• Value of Elon Musk’s X ‘rebounds to $44bn purchase price’ (The Guardian)

• World’s largest sovereign wealth fund invests $740 million in London’s Covent Garden (CNBC)

Honourable Mention 🗣️

• Analysts upgrade Schroders stock amid cost-cutting drive (City AM)

• Poppy Gustafsson: UK can be ‘safe haven’ amid Trump turbulence (City AM)

• Talking Finance: Five questions you should ask yourself before investing (City AM)

• OECD slashes UK economic forecasts amid global slowdown (City AM)

• New Chinese EVs will charge in 5 minutes (Morning Brew)

• Abu Dhabi’s ADQ and American private equity firm ECP make $25 billion bet on powering U.S. data centers (CNBC)

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: New employer signing 👀

we just signed a new employer partner, so I swung by their office to pick a little something for the announcement on LinkedIn. any guesse on who? spolier alert there will be a lot more jobs for the techiesss so stay stuned! follow me on Instagram to see the behind the scenes of running the biz and naming my coffees #iykyk :)

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