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Kudos to Rishi Khosla who is the CEO of the #fintech bank OakNorth for encouraging his colleagues to help the next generation understand pathways into important & interesting roles at fintech #scaleup companies. Did you know that 95% of net new jobs are from #scaleups and that they create 4x more jobs than the FTSE 100companies? Sherry Coutu CBE Russ Shaw CBE Janet Coyle CBE Divesh Chandiramani Claire Valoti
Thank you to Rose Thomas, Deepesh Thakrar & Rob Pearce from OakNorth who gave your time this morning to share your career pathways with parents & children from around the UK. As it was the week of A-Level results, your kindness will have helped them contemplate things that will be weighing on their mind like what they might do after they finish education and enter the world of work. Thank You. We loved what we learned about the cool roles in one of the UK’s most successful Fintech startups that has lent more than £11bn to ambitious businesses, creating 36,000 jobs & 25,000 new homes! 🔢 Rose gave us a glimpse of the kinds of huge numbers she works with everyday through sharing her career pathway after graduation from University of Warwick to becoming a Commercial Data Analyst OakNorth by drawing on encouragement from people in her family, school and university! https://lnkd.in/epdNAjpR 💵 Deepesh Thakrar, shared why he chose not to go to university, but instead signed up to an employment agency and has never looked back! His first role with Santander was an opportunity to learn more about banking, and he has since risen through the ranks to become Senior Director of Debt Finance at OakNorth where he earned the award of the UK’s best corporate banker! 🐠 Rob Pearce shared his unusual career pathway, from studying biochemistry at University of Melbourne to his first job as a marine biologist to now as Special Projects Lead in Finance at OakNorth in London. While his path has been far from linear, he has always been guided by the question, "Where will I learn dthe most?" #careersinSTEM #mentoring #careersinmaths To arrange conversations like this for your children or students takes only a couple of minutes for you to arrange via our website - and is as simple as ordering a pizza from Domino Pizza. If you want to prompt a conversation about these or similar early career roles in #Fintech, why not arrange something at a time convenient for sometime next week? —> click here! https://lnkd.in/e83ehhXz Valentina Kristensen
