Past Events
Past Employability Events
- Video: Employability Skills
- A session to provide students with extra support going into an uncertain recruitment environment.
Presentation:
Outline of the session:
1. Presentation from Maths Career Consultant about looking for a job and in particular in this environment.
2. Talks from alumni and their experiences of finding a job after graduation covering:
- How did they decide what to do after graduation? Who did they get advice from?
- How did they go about finding a job or further education? What was useful? What was not so useful?
- What did they find surprising once they started their new job/further education? What did they wish they knew before they started?
Speakers:
| Bianca Ferri |
Senior Data Scientist at SparkBeyond. MSc Operational Research with Computational Optimisation (2016) |
| Quentin Dhumeaux |
Operational Researcher for the Civil Service at Department for Work and Pensions MSc Operational Research (2019) |
| Duncan Ewing |
Actuarial Analyst at Lloyds Banking Group BSc Mathematics (2015) |
| Ollie Glick |
Public affairs officer for the Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition. Philosophy and Mathematics (2018, Sabbatical Officer 2017) |
3. Talks from companies about what their expectations of a new graduate are:
- What skills do they expect a graduate to have before starting in the workplace?
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What are the key attributes that they feel make new graduates successful at work?
- What do they feel is the main difference between studying at university and working in an organisation?
- Examples (good and bad) of what they have experienced and observed in their companies.
Speakers:
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Royal Bank of Scotland |
Meredith Regan Senior Quant |
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Wood Mackenzie |
Dan Eager Principal Analyst |
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Mackerel Media |
Josh Lohr Account Director |
Additionally please see: Events 20/21 | teaching.maths.ed.ac.uk