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NI Financial Services Careers

NI Financial Services Careers

The financial services industry in Northern Ireland needs to attract and retain a skilled and diverse workforce to work creatively and productively in a fast-changing and highly competitive global environment.  Stock Market Challenge offers a unique means of engaging with undergraduates who are interested in a career in the financial sector.

The experience engages students and facilitates communication between them and industry representatives.  It gives students a real insight into business and provides an ideal introduction to the financial services sector.

The project offers undergraduates an introduction to financial services, highlight the challenges and attributes required to work within it and allow them to demonstrate their qualities and skills in an informal environment.

The following courses will be targeted at institutions:

Queen’s University Belfast

Accounting, Actuarial Science, Business Economics, Economics, Finance and Computer Science.

University of Ulster Business School

Banking & Finance, Business with Computing, Accounting, Finance & Investment Analyst, Financial Engineering, Computing with Business.

Regional Colleges

BTEC Diploma in Business, Business Administration, HNC in Business

Testimonial videos:

John Breen, Employability Officer
Bannerman High School

Simon Brown, Business School Director
Southampton Solent University

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"In the Dealing Room Game our students used their reasoning, logic and mathematical skills to buy and sell shares. They made links between the demand, the supply and the price of a share.  This activity enabled students to use their mathematical skills in a real life situation. It was excellent.”

Maria Gretchen Garcia, Maths Teacher, Morpeth School

"Stock Market Challenge served as a great opportunity to reinforce many mathematical terms and concepts. Students developed an understanding of the knowledge and skills relating to a particular industry sector, with its direct relevance to the world of work."

Mark Bouckley, Assistant Headteacher, Hedingham School, Essex

"The interactivity and excitement of Stock Market Challenge enabled us to engage with Year 6 pupils from our feeder schools and give them an experience that would help introduce subjects and themes they will explore in Year 7.  The event was a great success."

Rob Wood, Director of Business and Enterprise, The Wellington Academy, Wiltshire

"Stock Market Challenge helped my pupils develop their core kills of comunication, team-working, analysing information and decision making."

Julie-Anne Hamilton, Business Education Teacher, Inveralmond High School