{"id":1075,"date":"2022-08-04T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/maths-student-blogs\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2022-08-04T15:39:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T14:39:11","slug":"a-year-in-industry-with-laetitia-yitaben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/maths-student-blogs\/2022\/08\/a-year-in-industry-with-laetitia-yitaben\/","title":{"rendered":"A year in industry with Laetitia Yitaben"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We spoke to recent graduate Laetitia Yitaben about her year in industry which she took as part of her Mathematics with Placement Year degree<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hi Laetitia, thank you for joining us on the Maths blog! Can you tell us a bit about yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hi there! I am from Dudley in the West Midlands and moved to Manchester to study Mathematics with a Placement Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During my placement year I worked in two companies, one as a Technology Consultant (Accenture) and the other in asset management as a Portfolio Analytics Group (PAG) Analyst (BlackRock).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did you choose to study Mathematics at Manchester, and what made you decide to complete a year in industry?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was actually a last-minute decision; I originally applied to study Chemical Engineering. I decided to switch to Mathematics because it has always been my favourite subject and I was unsure what I wanted to do after university.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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I chose Manchester because I wanted to experience living in a lively and cost-efficient city that isn\u2019t too far or close to home. This made Manchester the ideal choice out of Birmingham, Manchester and London, which were the areas that I was considering at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did you utilise the careers service at Manchester when looking for a placement?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used the careers service<\/a> in the lead up to applying for placements in my first year. After that, I had received enough feedback to apply for placements with little support. I applied for insight programmes in my first year, so I had a rough idea of which companies offered placements. I used Bright Network<\/a> to find further placement opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The careers service helped me a lot in improving my CVs and cover letters and offers mock assessment centres that are great practice for case study interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What did you most enjoy about the experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I enjoyed developing my technical skills further, especially as the roles that I worked in and training I completed were very different to one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, I learned about various topics including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n