About my degree – Paula Robezniece – Accounting and Finance

Now, just before graduation, I am reflecting on my time at Lancaster. The actual experience far exceeded my expectations of LUMS. I am an international student studying Accounting and Finance at Lancaster University Management School, also called LUMS. At high school I wasn’t sure yet what exactly I wanted to study, but I was career […]

Free MASH for all!

The best thing about being a student here at Lancaster University Management School is the free mash, without a doubt. Perhaps even better is that it is exclusive to LUMS students, meaning that your flatmates studying English or Politics cannot diminish the chunk of mash available to us Management School students. Now, those of you […]

Guest post: An investment banking spring week at Barclays

Theodoros Georgiadis, a first year student on the Accounting and Finance programme at LUMS, gives an interesting insight into his experiences during his spring week placement at Barclays. I applied for my Spring Week in the middle of my first term at LUMS and I am so glad I did as the experience gave me […]

Guest post: My job application journey so far

Final year LUMS Accounting and Finance student Prithiv Ghosal shares his experiences of the financial services application processes and his journey so far as an international student. He also offers some excellent advice to those seeking employment in this sector. Hi, I am a final year international student in Accounting and Finance at LUMS. I […]

The hunt for an internship

Internships are professional learning experiences that can help build career networks and contacts. Internships are usually aimed at undergraduate or graduate students, the position involves the intern working in an organization for a fixed period, usually three to six months, sometimes without pay, to gain work experience. Typically, an undergraduate student taking a three-year degree […]

Self-discipline

I briefly mentioned in one of my previous blog-posts about budgeting the idea of Adulting. I expressed that University is an opportunity to become independent and begin adulating. The term adulting can be found in the urban dictionary, it is essentially the process of becoming an adult by behaving like an adult, to do the […]

Telephone Interview: Grant Thornton

I recently had my telephone interview with Grant Thornton last Sunday. It was quite nerve-wracking watching the clock and knowing my phone would ring any moment. This was my third telephone interview. I had one last summer with ICAEW to become the campus ambassador and one with PwC, then this one with Grant Thornton. Here […]

Life at university

New environment Coming from a big city like London, adjusting to Lancaster was definitely a challenge. Being from London, it’s easy to think everywhere else in the United Kingdom is just like London, but this is not at all the case. A word a lot of people associate with London is diversity. Around 300 different […]

‘Failing to prepare is preparing to fail’ Video Interview tips

Week 5 already finished, this whole year is flying by. It’s my birthday next week so I am looking forward to celebrating being 20. I feel so old, but before the celebrating begins, I have a test and yes you guessed it…. it’s on the morning of my birthday so I have to put all […]

Useful Apps for an Accounting and Finance student

Commercial awareness is very important especially for university students. Commercial awareness usually refers to a candidate’s general knowledge of business and their understanding of the industry which they are applying to join. To compete in any sector of the graduate job market, you need to demonstrate commercial awareness when you make online applications, go to […]