Past Events

Past Employability Events

Employability Skills

 

Presentation: 

Employability1 (3.84 MB / PDF)

 

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?
  • 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: 

 

RBS
Royal Bank of Scotland

Meredith Regan

Senior Quant

Www.rbs.co.uk

WM
Wood Mackenzie

Dan Eager  

Principal Analyst

https://www.woodmac.com/

MM
Mackerel Media

Josh Lohr  

Account Director

https://www.mackerelmedia.co.uk/

Additionally please see: Events 20/21 | teaching.maths.ed.ac.uk

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