Work experience for econ degrees

How should I go about finding work experience for courses like LSE maths/stats/business or Imperial econ/finance/data science? Is work experience with people in banking or government economic policy enough or would some experience with people in maths be useful, and if so how would I go about finding this as most companies only offer experience to uni students or graduates, and I'm only in y12?

Hi there hope you are well!
I would recommend going online and visiting the prospects website as they talk about y12 work experience and work placements, its a really good careers website!
if you put placements in accounting and finance sectors in the search and put your location on it should give you some more accurate placements for you:
Search graduate jobs | Prospects.ac.uk
hope this helps!
Katy,
LJMUStudentRep

How should I go about finding work experience for courses like LSE maths/stats/business or Imperial econ/finance/data science? Is work experience with people in banking or government economic policy enough or would some experience with people in maths be useful, and if so how would I go about finding this as most companies only offer experience to uni students or graduates, and I'm only in y12?

Work experience wouldn't be necessary or expected for those courses.
If you see something that seems interesting and relevant then by all means pursue it but don't worry if nothing comes up. Realistically as a school student you wouldn't really be able to engage in any relevant "work" in reality, so at best you'd probably find shadowing/insight opportunities rather than "work experience".

Yes, when I say work experience I mean supercurriculars and work shadowing etc. How would you recommend that I get some that would be good for those courses?

As stated neither work experience nor shadowing are required for that course. You don't need it. If the opportunity presents itself by all means go for it, but otherwise its more than sufficient to do wider reading and write thoughtfully and analytically about that and get in. And if you're unable to find and read relevant academic texts and write analytically about them, then no amount of work experience or shadowing will "save" your application.
Work experience is a bonus if it's available. It won't ameliorate a lack of fundamental academic engagement and curiosity which is demonstrated in other ways that are accessible to all applicants and students. Likewise as stated not having it will not disadvantage a good application otherwise.
Also I would note the LSE course is not an economics degree, just in reference to the thread title. Additionally I would question whether work experience qualifies as a "supercurricular" per se...

Almost any relevant work experience would be good for uni but not required. I'd look for anything in professional services or you could try your hand at something like a boutique M&A advisory firm.
I feel like going into uni with work experience is more of a past thing, there aren't too many opportunities to get relevant work experience while sitting A-Levels. A lot of people I graduated with are yet to get any relevant work experience (purely part-time retail etc.) so I wouldn't worry about it too much at this stage.

Would talking to a banker help?

It couldn't hurt, thought from my experience, 'talks' rarely help unless they are a partner etc. at a tiny firm where they have direct sway. Do you have any ideas what area of finance you want to go into post uni?

What if theyre a vp at a big bank?

I think those kind of talks are a lot more helpful to see what they'd want in a candidate and maybe figuring out what type of work would suit you best. They are extremely unlikely to be able to help when it comes to formal recruitment, but they might be able to offer you unpaid work experience, it can't hurt to ask.

But would it be good to talk about it in my personal statement?

Hi, thanks for your reply. I went on their website, however the companies they said may offer y12 work experience don't seem to.

I understand what you’re saying it’s just that my school are pushing really hard for this and I have a teacher who used to work in top uni admissions who says talking to these people is very important. Is there any industry you would recommend for this degree? Thanks.