Career sectors and Employment

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Discussion and advice on careers ranging from the NHS and Police, to the Coast Guard and Fire Services.

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Legal
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Discussion on internships, jobs and graduate schemes for playing with numbers and cooking the books.

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Discussion on investment and retail banking, equities, trading, derivatives, consultancy.

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Discussion around careers in the field of IT and technology, from programming to security.

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Engineering and Science
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Property, construction, transport & logistics
Discussion of careers, from surveying to planning, train driving to being a pilot.
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Armed Forces
Armed forces discussion.

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