Past Employability Events Employability Advice and Guidance (June 2020) Presentation: Document 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: Image Royal Bank of Scotland Meredith Regan Senior Quant Www.rbs.co.uk Image Wood Mackenzie Dan Eager Principal Analyst https://www.woodmac.com/ Image Mackerel Media Josh Lohr Account Director https://www.mackerelmedia.co.uk/ Additionally please see: Events 20/21 | teaching.maths.ed.ac.uk This article was published on 2025-04-22