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4: This Week's Briefing
Stay Competitive
Qusai Agha
January 17, 2025
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Hey future apprentices, this week’s email contains:
Important news from the previous week (Talk about this in your interviews!)
Weekly advice from our apprentice network.
New apprenticeship news and vacancies.
We’ll start by highlighting this weeks featured vacancies:
Morgan Stanley - Level 6 | Technology | |
|---|---|---|
E.ON and Kaplan- Level 7 (Only 3 years too) | https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/VAC1000296454 | Finance |
GKN Aerospace LTD - Level 6 | https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/VAC1000290181 | Engineering |
Ashurst - Level 7 | Law |
Real World Application Using News:
Finance: Ceasefire in Palestine
This is very recent and still a developing story, but a ceasefire agreement is imminent.
Pro Tip: Talk about how this may improve animal spirits and business confidence, raising stock prices.Tech: Edinburgh Supercomputer
Government is considering reviving this project, which would increase computing capacity of UK by 20 times by 2030.
Pro Tip: Talk about what this means for tech, and the endless possibilities for fostering tech growth.Engineering: Batman
While building the HS2, the chairman decided to spend £100m on a tunnel to protect bats.
Pro Tip: Talk about importance of considerate innovation in engineering for the world, especially in protecting habitats..Law: Free Speech is Back?!
The UK government is reviving laws to protect free speech at universities.
Pro Tip: Talk about the importance of free speech and how it relates to law.
Using real world news in your interviews is a major plus for your interviews. It shows you are proactive, competent and aware of important events in your given industry. You can reply to this email for these news sources.
A Few Words From a Degree Apprentice:
“Another thing ACs look for is someone who has leading qualities and is taking initiative. This may mean you have to put an extroverted front and become a team player especially in group tasks. And lastly, have confidence in yourself and what you know, this will evidently be seen and taken into account by assessors. Best of Luck.”
Even if you aren’t a confident person or are feeling a bit of nerves before the interview, just relax. You’re just a speck in the universe on a flying rock - its not that deep. Relax and at least pretend to be confident!
After working so hard to partner with a news provider, we have finally decided to introduce 1440 Media to our members, this goes basically hand in hand with our service.
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Thank you, we hope this email provided value, and see you next week!