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Happy Friday Gang,  

Early morning delivery because I’m feeling very punctual today 😌

A quick summary for the lazy ones ⬇️

TL;DR

• Shoutouts

• Free Game

• Who's Hiring

• BE Picks

• Headlines

• Meme Flow

• Employer Referrals

• CEO Updates

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Shoutouts 🗣️

• J4S Community: Still sending positive feedback on the newsletter

• Antoine & Demi: For hosting an employer insight session in my absence.

• Sai & Vania: From Octopus Energy, who showed me love whilst I was on stage at the Black Tech Fest panel talk 🐙💜

• Joanna: From Octopus Energy who also said hi - great to FINALLY meet in person!

• Black Tech Fest Gang: For everyone that came up to me! I tried to remember everyone’s names to include in the newsletter, but I couldn’t keep up lol 😅 

Maybe I will shout you out next Gang 👀

Free Game 🫡

How to navigate the job market in 2024.

Unfortunately…

• Searching online

• Applying with a CV

• Waiting for a callback

Will not get you a job! 🤷🏾‍♂️

Because the job market is COOKED.

So try this instead…

• Search online

• Apply with a CV

• Add a Cover Letter

• Include a link to your portfolio

• Do some certifications - add that too!

• Reach out to the hiring manager via LinkedIn

• Ask for referrals from current staff members

• Build a network of recruiters for job market insights

• Attend networking events online and also in person

Do all of this and more!

Till you get a job 🤷🏾‍♂️

PS: The job market is tough, but you are tuffer 💛😤

Who’s Hiring 💼

Weekly top 10 list:

1. Software Engineering Graduate Programme, Sheffield

   • Self explanatory innit

2. Cybersecurity Graduate Programme, Sheffield

   • Stop the fraud boyzzz(& gals) from hitting licks

3. People Team Analyst Program, Manchester

   • HR role but “People” sounds more friendly

4. Chief Administrative Office Analyst Programme, Manchester

   • Doing a bunch of stuff at CEO level

5. Risk & Compliance Analyst Programme, Manchester

   • Stopping the fraud boyzzz(& gals) from hitting licks

   • Plus helping to not get fined ALOT of money

6. Asset Servicing Analyst Programme, Manchester

   • Operations but with a sexier title and more stuff to do

7. Software Engineering Internship, London

   • You probably shouldn’t apply if you don’t know what this means lol

8. Operations Internship, Manchester

   • Little bit of this, little bit of that

9. Software Engineering Internship, Manchester

   • All these Finance companies are looking for tech people!

10. Securities Services Internship, London

    • Behind the scenes of all the complicated investment stuff

BE Picks 📌

1. Insight Sessions: Shoutout to everyone who pulled up to the insight events this week. Make sure you post about it on LinkedIn to attract hiring managers and recruiters. Here’s a quick template you can use. Sign up for the next session here.

2. 3-Day Staycation Retreat: Beyond Education has partnered up with the Valuable Community to give our members access to their yearly retreat. Use the code “BEYONDEDUCATION” for discounted ticket prices. I’ve personally been to one of their retreats so I highly recommend it! Get tickets here.

3. More Grad Jobs: A multi-billion dollar global insurance underwriter has opened their graduate and apprenticeship programs. Roles have a £33k starting salary + annual bonus and include benefits such as £100 monthly lifestyle allowance and reimbursed office travel costs up to £3000. Apply here.

Headlines 🗞️

Job Market 💼

• "Working in recruitment has become a nightmare" (efinancial careers)…to let you know how COOKED the job market is 🤧

• Recruiter slump not yet over as fees and headcount continue to drop (City AM)…another sign to give yourself grace in the job market

• Retirees considering a return to work as living costs rise (HR Grapevine)…ok the UK is officially in crisis mode!

• Insurance body tracking staff office attendance (HR Grapevine)…come like secondary school attendance lol

• Govt unveils workers' rights bill (LinkedIn News)

• The top startups in UK cities (LinkedIn News)

General Shenanigans 🚨

• UK economy grew by 0.2% in August (Sky News)…damn I must have blinked too fast and missed it lol

• Capital gains tax could be hiked to almost 40 per cent (City AM)…someone said the UK government are trying to make us peasants and I felt that lol

• This is how much sixty of the UK’s wealthiest people paid in income tax (City AM)…I think this is supposed to make us peasants feel better lol

• Ex-cabinet secretary says £200,000 job is ‘massively underpaid’ (City AM)…ok Gus 🥱

• Renters set for more tough times as house sales strengthen (City AM)…really cannot catch a break in this UK place bruh!

• Rafael Nadal announces retirement from professional tennis (Sky News)…not corporate news but why not ayy

• Calling women 'birds' & boasting about sex at work was harassment, tribunal rules (HR Grapevine)…no shit 🤦🏾‍♂️

Abit Techie 👾

• British ‘godfather of AI’ awarded Nobel prize but warns tech could ‘get out of control’ (City AM)

• Google faces threat of being broken up after US Justice Department (Sky News)

• TikTok sued by 13 US states for 'harming young people's mental health' (Sky News)

• AI firms now worth $9tn (LinkedIn)

Investment Heads 💸

• Didn’t really see anything worth reporting soz x

Candid Memes 🙂

How YOU can help!

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 📢

This week made me realise that the content is defo working, which is always encouraging!

I have a lot more stuff in the works too! I just hired a full-time editor and looking to bring on a full-time content strategist soon. We tryna touch 1 million followers in the next 12 months, so prepare to be sick of me 🤪

A lot of productive conversations with employers in recent times, so best believe more jobs are loading 🫡 

Btw if you saw me shaking a leg at the BTF afterparty…it wasn’t me 🤫

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

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