Read Time: Quick tings :)
Happy Good Friday {{ first name | Gang }},
Shout out to Mo & Kayode from church and Will, who spotted me in the gym.
PS: We finally launched the newsletter referral programme with prizes to be won every month 💸
Let’s get into it 🫡
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Announcements: Short and sweet
Short and sweet one this week, now that internship applications are closed.
Shout out to everyone who is currently going through interview stages.
Check out the replay of the interview prep sessions hosted earlier this week to make sure you are putting your best foot forward! IQ-EQ Session | Octopus Energy Session.
New jobs are coming out real soon with a lot of focus on tech-related opportunities for people with experience, so keep an eye out for that!
Top Picks: Resources & in-person link up 👀
📝 Free career resources: Access free career resources to help you secure a job. We’ve got CVs, Cover Letters, interview prep templates, virtual insight event recordings all on our site. Check em out here.
👀 Next in-person link up: If Beyond Education has helped you secure a job in some way, shape, or form, we want to hear from you. We are planning an in-person link up for you guys so let us know here.
Headlines: Company loses out on £50m cause of pullback on DEI 🤧
Job Market 💼
Accenture blocked from £50m TfL contract after axing DEI measures (HR Grapevine) - well well well
Nearly half of UK businesses are short-staffed (HR Grapevine) - where is all the jobs then!
UK jobs market weakens as employment costs grow (BBC News) - ffs 🫠
Life in HR - from bosses having affairs to dealing with Gen Z (Sky News) - good tea 😅
Business groups attack ‘deeply damaging’ employment reforms (City AM)
Small firm owners are leaving the UK en masse, survey finds (City AM)
Corndel, Imperial, and Microsoft to skill 10,000 professionals in AI in 2025 (HR Grapevine)
UK firms that axe DEI face heightened legal risks, ELA warns (HR Grapevine)
Publishing platform Medium says it’s sticking with DEI (Tech Crunch)
Coinbase is paying $228k for a remote "based" Discord and Reddit user (efinancialcareers)
The bank developers on $180k salaries that are still in high demand (efinancialcareers)
General Shenanigans
Chinese TikTokers are promising luxury goods directly from the factories (Morning Brew) - rah bring ins?
The secrets of LinkedIn’s algorithm and growing on social media (City AM)
Abit Techie 👾
Two things Zuck admitted at Meta’s antitrust trial (Morning Brew)
OpenAI is building a social network (The Verge) - ain’t no way bruh!
Can tech help the state of the UK property market? (City AM)
Trump administration reportedly considers a US DeepSeek ban (Tench Crunch)
Why AI Might Not Take All Our Jobs—if We Act Quickly (Wall Street Journal)
Investment Heads 💸
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio is worried about 'something worse than recession’: (CNBC) - you what mate lol?
Nvidia shares skyrocket but tariffs still threaten AI boom (City AM)
Trump's trade war ripples through the business world, hits stocks again (Reuters)
Trade tensions can lead to stock market crashes, IMF says (Reuters)
UK inflation rate has fallen. Here's why it won't last long (BBC News)
German Doner Kebab eyes stake sale to private equity firm True (Sky News)
Honourable Mentions 🗣️
Nvidia says it’ll start making AI chips in the US (Morning Brew)
Banks cash in on whiplashing markets (Morning Brew)
‘Recession blonde’ and other ways women are signalling an economic downturn (Morning Brew)
Imported tech gets some temporary tariff relief (Morning Brew)
The world may be entering its ‘sell America’ era (Morning Brew)
The UK’s fastest growing fintech Allica Bank delivers another record year (City AM)
Exclusive: EY reveals Brits embrace AI at home, not at work (City AM)
Barclays to sell stake in British payments business to Brookfield (Reuters)
Stop reading texts in meetings, JP Morgan boss tells staff (The Times)
Headlines curated by Isobel 🤝
Candid Memes 🙂
Referral Programme 📲
The newsletter referral programme is finally here! Every month, the subscriber with the highest number of referrals will get to choose a prize of their choice. This includes but is not limited to:
A cash prize
A co-working day + free lunch on me
1-month subscription to LinkedIn Premium
A 1-1 coaching session with an expert career coach
We will be adding more prizes to the list as the referral programme grows!
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: Denied entry 🫠
I didn’t get let into the office today because apparently I didn’t look like a Founder?!?! What do y’all think in the chat ?
Appreciate you for making it to the end of the newsletter {{ first name | Gang }}.
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