During the week of 10-14 July, Liverpool firms opened their doors to the future stars of Liverpool’s financial services sector, for the third annual work-experience and Investment Management insight week.
Firms welcomed the 16-18-year-old students from schools across the city for a three day work placement followed by a two day conference at the prestigious Rathbone Hall in the Port of Liverpool Building. Over 40 students spent two interactive days giving the students the opportunity to develop their practical skill set through interactive sessions such as; Presentation Skills, Speed Networking, Employability Skills & Ethics and Integrity.
The aim of the week-long programme is to provide an insight into working in financial services and to encourage the next generation of finance professionals.
One of the first icebreaker challenges was ‘Who can build the biggest tower?’ using bamboo canes and elastic bands. Lots of the students hadn’t met before and this challenge was sure to get the students talking. The winner’s tower was over 9ft tall!
‘Top Trader’ run by BNY Mellon was a favourite amongst the students. It is a monopoly style stock exchange game which sees the students running around the room, buying and selling their funds.
One student said commented that "Top Trader was Top Notch".
The week will conclude with in the ‘Liver Bird’s Den’ - based on TV’s Dragons’ Den, students will have the opportunity to pitch their investment ideas to a panel of experts!
Thank you to all the practitioners and students who took part in the Insight Conference. We look forward to hosting it again next year!