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Industry Insights...
Industry Insights: A Day in The Life
Find out more about your chosen industry from those who really know: the people in them. Click to read more about a career in:
: Corporate Finance
: Futures Trading
: Law
: Management Consulting
: Marketing
: Charity/Not For Profit sector
: Teaching
Corporate financiers advise clients on acquisitions, disposals, valuations and capital-raising. Corporate financiers typically work in investment banks, although they can also work in smaller ‘boutique’ corporate finance firms and larger professional services firms.
I can honestly say that each day is eventful, and I never know quite what is round the corner. Take the last time I went to work as an example. I arrived at work at 8.30 – official office hours are 9.30 to 5.30 but I share my room with a paralegal and I like the uninterrupted hour before everyone else arrives.
There are many different types of management consulting, ranging from IT consulting, operations consulting, HR consulting, strategy consulting and economic consulting to name but a few.
Long lunches, glamorous events, corporate hospitality... not quite! Many graduates leaving university take an interest in Marketing as a career as it seems to promise excitement and a fast-paced environment where every day is different from the next.
Working for a small development charity has been a hugely rewarding experience allowing me to put to use skills which were honed in highly competitive agencies into improving the world rather than selling some dull product.
Teaching is "full-on". You will always feel tired at
the
end of the day but you will also always know that
you
have done something valuable every day.
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