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Fiftyfaces Breakout Rooms

Fiftyfaces Breakout Rooms

By: Aoifinn Devitt
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 The Fiftyfaces Breakout rooms series is a spin-off of the Fiftyfaces Podcast which will focus on specific topics, and sometimes feature panel style discussions, sometimes documentary style collaborations. The Fiftyfaces Podcast, which features 58 interviews focused on showcasing the diversity and richness of the investment world by focusing on its people and their stories.Copyright 2021 Aoifinn Devitt Economics Personal Finance
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  • Episode 1: The GAIN Summer Internship 2021 - Reflections, Highlights, Insights

    Episode 1: The GAIN Summer Internship 2021 - Reflections, Highlights, Insights
    Oct 20 2021
    In October 2020 GAIN (Girls are Investors) launched its inaugural Summer 2021 internship programme and received applications from nearly 200 talented young women from 48 universities. Through 22 partner investment management firms, they offered internships to 25 young women in Summer 2021 with additional firms participating in the programme on an ongoing basis. In this podcast we meet with three of those students to discuss their internship experience. Our discussion starts with their own academic background, and how some of the skills they applied in their internship did not spring from traditional finance disciplines. We hear how some of them were introduced to the world of finance and investing and debate whether the industry is as open to newcomers as it should be. We turn then to look at the importance of female role models, and where the students found mentorship and inspiration both throughout the summer and in their career search to date. Finally, we touch on the impact of Covid-19 on work experiences such as this one and learn about the travails of internships that were fully or partially remote and how critical in-person interactions are at this stage of career development. With sincere thanks to Han You Low, Eva Borras and Ellen Welford for sharing their insights with us. There is more information on the GAIN internship programme on this link: https://www.gainuk.org/gain-internship-programme/ This podcast is brought to you with the kind support of Pluscios Capital, a women-owned, WBENC certified investment management firm based in Evanston, IL. With over 60+ years of combined investment management experience, co-founders Constance Teska and Kelly Chesney are committed to the development of bespoke investment solutions on behalf of institutions and intermediaries. In addition to broadly diversified core and catalyst solutions, Pluscios provides hands on product development support and custom solutions with a focus on diversity-led and emerging managers.
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    2 mins
  • Girls are Investors/Fiftyfaces Collaboration: Building Confidence in a Changing World

    Girls are Investors/Fiftyfaces Collaboration: Building Confidence in a Changing World
    May 25 2021
    There is a popular narrative that women are less confident than men. But is this borne out in the data? Recently, I presented to a group of university students who were members of a Women in Asset Management club. And it seemed to me, in a somewhat troubling way, that the popular narrative that women are less confident than men has become accepted as a truth, one that has even become internalized by young women at a young age. We set out to tackle this issue and convened a panel of two executive coaches and one executive search expert to debate this issue of confidence, share what they see from their perspective. Kate Grussing works in Executive Search at Sapphire Partners. Kathryn Heslin is an executive coach and management consultant. She is managing partner of Change Associates based in Dublin. Brian Hillery was introduced to me by Kathryn and is also based in Dublin. He's a partner and Head of Coaching at Eisneramper, a specialist accountancy firm. Our discussion reveals that lack of self-confidence can be an issue for far more people than we might think, and that it is pervasive among both women and men, at every level in professions and even ebbing and flowing in a career. We speak about how sometimes it derives from the stories we tell ourselves and can manifest physically, and how it can often hold people back from seeking promotions, seeking stretch opportunities and making professional moves. Brian and Kathryn, as executive coaches, speak about the action plans that they develop with their clients to overcome confidence issues – how this can involve visualization, goal setting and small actions to make a difference. Kate shares how lack of self confidence manifests at the job search stage, how different candidates can have different assessments of their own competence and how searching for case studies of achievements and examples can be empowering in shaping an employment profile. Kate recommends building support circles and even a personal Board of Directors which can be consulted in advance of career moves or important milestones. A career in investing is both exciting and rewarding. Girls are Investors (GAIN) is here to inspire girls to get into the industry through inspirational talks, career support and opportunities. Please visit gainuk.org for more resources and information about GAIN. See 50facespodcast.com for information about the role models profiled on The Fiftyfaces Podcast and spin-off series.
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    32 mins
  • Breakout Room 5: Tackling Youth Employment - One Magical Day and its Impact

    Breakout Room 5: Tackling Youth Employment - One Magical Day and its Impact
    Feb 4 2021
    In the throes of the economic shock caused by the Covid-19 crisis, the annual fall in employment in the UK is now the highest in a decade. Work changes lives, and young people, and the importance of hope, opportunity and the dignity that employment confers are in supreme focus. In the aftermath of the riots in London of 2011 AON participated in a pathbreaking recruitment program that targeted unemployed youth in the Croydon area. As described by Stuart Heatley, then of Aon, the recruitment program was "about tapping in to a pool of potential that conventionally employers wouldn't look at". It was a return to recruitment by talent and not by numbers . . to overcome the near focus on "numbers" such as A-levels, degree quality and other conventional metrics. The CV-less recruitment process, held in conjunction with Croydon's job centre, had an overwhelming response leading to AON increasing the number of candidates from 10 to 15, but based on the "talent in the room" they would have liked to increase it even further. Suzanne Taylor, who managed the recruitment program, enjoyed the opportunity to get to know the candidates for longer than an hour as part of the process, to really understand what contribution could be made and give "real insights into the talent" and to "get to see what an individual would bring to a business" which may not be possible during a traditional interview process. Derek Browne of Entrepreneurs in action designed the program, and described the recruitment day as a "magical day" that revealed all that was right in young people, their hunger to work and to drive their lives forward. The business leaders described the process as "one of the most interesting and rewarding things" of their careers, and one found it "emotional to see what young people had to give". We hear from a young candidate who came from a "bad place" but ultimately found an employer that provided more than just a job - instead it provided a place to grow. He discusses the impact that that recruitment program had on the direction of his life. This episode was generously sponsored by the International Business of Federated Hermes.
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    51 mins
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