Accountancy Academy leads next generation

First Intuition’s hugely popular Accountancy Academies were launched in Leeds back in 2017. Since then, they have given many 16-18-year-olds from schools, academies and colleges across Yorkshire the opportunity to find out what a career in accountancy is really about.

Their latest event in Leeds provided ambitious teenagers the full breadth, range and variety of roles accountancy offers and the different ways they can turn their interest into a fulfilling and rewarding career.

A packed two days began with a series of activities to calm the attendee’s nerves. They then ran informative sessions hosted by a diverse range of accountants from national heavyweights including the NHS and Leeds Building Society and leading local firms BHP and Kirk Newsholme before moving into more practical territory with a CV clinic and mock interviews.

The programme culminated with a team activity; attendees were split into groups and tasked with creating their own festival from scratch, putting together a presentation that would introduce the theme of their festival and explaining how they planned to tackle budget, security, advertising and marketing, accessibility and pricing to a judging panel of ‘dragons’.

With day two drawing to a close, First Intuition Yorkshire Managing Director Lucy Parr, reflected on another highly successful Academy: “We were extremely impressed with the quality of the presentations as were all our ‘dragons’.

“We really put the learners through their paces, with some tough questions. This is difficult enough for experienced businesspeople but even more so for our attendees, especially as they’d been well and truly put on the spot and handled it so well.”

The next event is heading to Sheffield, and you can look out for details of their Easter Academy across their social channels. If you would like to take part either as an attendee or an employer please get in touch with lucybrennan@ fi.co.uk