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What’s goodie Gang,  

Let’s just get into it shall we…

TL;DR

• Shoutouts

• Quick rant

• Who's Hiring

• BE Picks

• Headlines

• Meme Flow

• Employer Referrals

• CEO Day in the Life

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Shoutouts 🗣️

• Laura:  Who spotted me at WeWork and gave me positive feedback on the newsletter.

• Femi: Who spotted me at Tesco

Maybe I will bump into you next Gang 👀

Fraud friendly careers 🤔

We are experiencing a serious fraud EPIDEMIC right now!

• Scam recruitment companies

• Fake job interviews

• HMRC scam calls

Add my Amex credit card being hacked for £500 worth of Uber Eats to the list 🤦🏾‍♂️

I guess healthy living wasn’t on this hacker's agenda 😭

Back in my day, fraud was really reserved for big money licks i.e. £20k and upwards!

Now they just letting anybody into the game…smh 🤦🏾‍♂️

I blame this on people going into the wrong careers to be honest!

We need more people working in…

• Software Engineering

• Risk & Compliance

• Cybersecurity

So, we have more reinforcements to stop fraudulent activities!

These are all jobs that you can apply to at Beyond Education. 

Even you fraudsters (if you are reading this)…

Hacking into a 2-factor authenticated Amex account is not easy!

Game recognise game 😏

If you could just channel that energy into an actual career…

You could be making a killing 💸

With a moderate pension and a boomer who can’t convert a Word document into a PDF micro managing you 🤷🏾‍♂️

Just some food for thought 💭

PS: Still in an ongoing battle with the Amex disputes team trying to get my money back 🤦🏾‍♂️

Who’s Hiring 💼

Weekly top 10 list:

1. Actuarial Analyst Insurance pricing, London

   • Basically, a Data Analyst with a complicated job title

2. Data Analyst, London

   • 1-2 years experience ideally

3. Commercial Analyst, London

   • Data Analyst with cooler title…

   • “Hi what do you do?”

   • “I’m an analyst…Commercial Analyst!” Tuff 🔥

   • Also 1-2 years experience ideally

4. Software Engineering Internship, London

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

   • Is everyone scared of layoffs?

   • Dw barely happens in Finance like that x

5. Software Engineering Analyst Programme, Manchester

6. Operations Internship, Manchester

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

7. Chief Administrative Office Analyst Programme, Manchester

   • Same applies in this one too!

8. Audit Analyst Programme, Manchester

   • More to life than Big 4 Audit BTW

9. Market & Wealth Services Internship, London

   • The sexier version of middle office and operations

10. Distribution Analyst Programme, London

    • Big boy Sales! No door-to-door nonsense!

BE Picks 📌

1. New Insight Programmes: Big virtual insight event for 1st & 2nd year students showcasing all the available insight programmes coming out soon! Sign up here
   

2. Insight Session Replays (in case you missed it): 

   • Explore Wealth & Personal Banking

   • Explore Tech Digital Business Services

   • Explore 100+ Intern & Grad Job Opportunities

Here’s a template to post about this session on LinkedIn 🤝

3. 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.

Headlines 🗞️

Job Market 💼

• "It is absolutely false that most headhunters try to trick candidates" (efinancial careers) - boy ohh boy ☕️

• Investment banking is officially a low growth industry (efinancial careers) - that will do it!

• "Recruiters treating candidates badly should beware. I will be your client again one day" (efinancial careers) - whoever said this thought they cooked lol

• Big 4 firm cuts 250 underperforming staff in UK (City AM) - well sh*t then 😭

General Shenanigans 🚨

• How one startup is revolutionising anal sex (City AM) - no comment

• UK suffering from ‘vibecession’ ahead of the Budget, PwC says (City AM) - POV: when you get the Gen Z intern to write the report

• Inheritance tax receipts hit record high (City AM)

• Bullying and harassment cases rise at City firms (City AM)

• Volkswagen Finance fined by FCA (City AM)

• Labour is playing a ‘dangerous game’ with capital gains tax (City AM) - Am I going to complain even though I am not affected? You bet I am 😏

• Jeremy Hunt: Upping employer NI would be an ‘absolute disaster’ for economy (City AM) - the UK is making me tired

Abit Techie 👾

• How much Leetcode should you do before applying for a developer job? (efinancial careers)…this one is for the techies fr cause I am clueless lol

Investment Heads 💸

• Elon Musk’s EV giant reports better-than-expected profit as shares soar (City AM) - if you’ve been holding this stock since Covid, you are happy rn 💸

• UK music exports hit all-time high (City AM) - ok but is this linked to when Jhus is gonna drop an album tho?

• UK economy receives hefty growth upgrade from IMF (City AM)

• Andrew Bailey: Inflation has fallen ‘faster than expected’ (City AM)

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Quick 45-minute round-up today cause I actually have no time these days!

But everyone loves my news yappings and commentary 😅

So I might be looking for…

Writers
Curators
Researchers

To help speed up the process!
 
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Reply to the email if you are down 👀

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 Day in the Life

Your mental health is not always going to be 100%  

Especially when you are doing hard sh*t!

A day in the life operating on a low 5.5 out of 10...

10am: Commute to office. Headphones in. No music playing. Contemplating using ChatGPT to process human emotions.

10:30am: Can’t concentrate. Coffee break. 1hr walk. “God strengthen me” repeatedly underneath my breathe.

11:30am - 3pm: Locked in. Power through work as much as I can.

3pm: Reluctantly opening up to a friend in the office.

4pm: Try to go for a walk. Frozen in reception for an hour. Trying to gather my thoughts.

5pm: Finally leave reception and go outside. Stuck in the middle of the pavement. Hyperaware that I’m struggling to get through the day now.

5:15pm: Phone call from a friend. She’s going through her own stuff. An opportunity to deflect. Perfect!

5:30pm: Now we are talking about me. Damn it! I am upset. I don’t know why! Everything is going well…

• The brand is growing exponentially

• Business pipeline looking solid right now

• Record number of traffic & applications at Beyond Education

Her: “So what’s wrong Stephen…”

Me: “I don’t know how to help you help me…”

I hang up the phone abruptly.

5:50pm: Crying my eyes out in the middle of the street.

6pm: Recuperated. Went back to the office. Locked in! Finished all my to-dos for the day.

8:30pm: Chopped it up with some friends in the office. Acknowledged my feelings.

9pm: Heavy weights. Loud music. Called it a night. What a day!

Whether you are….

• Job searching in this treacherous market

• Bootstrapping a business & struggling to get clients

• Navigating a bunch of hard sh*t right now.

I see you!

Feel the pain.
Process the emotion.
Talk to someone.

Then get back to work!

The vision is still clear(ish), even though we get teary-eyed from time to time 🙏🏾

PS: Remember going through sh*t is tough, but you are tuffer! I promise 💛

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

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