Information booklet VSAE Master Speed date Event

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Master Speed date Event Information booklet

Study Career Learning Academy Social

COLOPHON VSAE Universiteit van Amsterdam Roetersstraat 11, Room E1.32 1018 WB Amsterdam Email: info@vsae.nl Phone number: 020 - 525 4134 Website: www.vsae.nl Editor Teska Vaessen Icons All icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com Circulation: 250 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without permission.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Hans van Ophem p. 4 Master Speed date Event p. 5 VondelCS

p. 6 Facts legend

p. 7

Accenture

p. 8

Building Blocks

p. 10

Capgemini

p. 12

Dynamic Credit

p. 14

EY

p. 16

PwC

p. 18

Thuisbezorgd

p. 20

Career Coaching UvA

p. 22

Careers4Quants

p. 23

Career

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PREFACE HANS VAN OPHEM As the program director of the MSc in Econometrics I am very happy that the VSAE organizes events like the VSAE Speed Date event. As a faculty we always appear to have problems connecting to the real world as is shown in many evaluations of our educational curriculum. Of course, we strongly believe that what we teach in the program is very relevant for students and their future working life, but students expect more than we are able to offer. We are restricted by two factors: (i) we offer an academic program not directly related to specific professions, and (ii) the government decided that a master program in a complex subject like econometrics can consist of only 60 ec, leaving no room to schedule other elements which are also relevant to students. I am very glad that the VSAE took the lead in this respect. I even believe that organizing the relation with the true world via the VSAE has some important advantages. Students know much better what they want for their future and of top of that organizing such events also lets the students involved to gain relevant skills and experience that will benefit their professional career!

Hans van Ophem, Director of the MSc in Econometrics.

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MASTER SPEED DATE EVENT CONCEPT The idea of the VSAE Master Speed date Event is that companies have twelve speed dates of six minutes with the participating students, divided over two rounds. Since this is not a lot of time, the speed dates will have to be as efficient as possible. Prior to the event, the students will rank all companies based on their own interests. On the other hand, the companies will rank the students by means of CV selection. Using this information we will match students to companies. After the speed date rounds all attendants can have drinks in an informal setting. This way students can get into contact again with their preferred companies.

GENERAL INFORMATION Date: February 21st 2019 Application deadline: February 6th 23:59 Location: VondelCS, Vondelpark 3, 1071 AA Amsterdam

PROGRAMME TIME ELEMENT 15:00 - 15:30

Registration

15:30 - 15:45

Introduction and explanation

15:45 - 16:30

Speed date round 1

16:30 - 16:45

Break

16:45 - 17:30

Speed date round 2

17:30 - 19:00

Networking drink

* If there is more interest from the students than expected, we will add a third round. This may allow the programme to start an hour earlier.

MASTER THESIS PROCEDURE AT THE UVA Master students officially start writing their thesis on April 1st 2019.

The deadline for handing in a thesis proposal is April 15th 2019. Then, the students have four months to write their thesis. The thesis must be handed in before August 15th 2019. However, students can choose to hand in their thesis before December 15th 2019. In that case, they have eight months.

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VONDELCS VONDELCS - MEDIA AND CULTURE LAB AVROTROS VondelCS offers a platform to creative talent that sparks innovation in the field of media and culture.

The purpose is to give people the opportunity to develop themselves in media and culture, get inspired and maybe even push them to create, so that eventually, they will be able to inspire others.

This results in many inspiring events at VondelCS. Bringing talent together is in the DNA of VondelCS. They strive to make a connection between creative talent and the public; between new and established talents; between young and old; between technique and creativity; between offline and online.

Among the radio and tv shows recorded at VondelCS are: MolTalk, dr Kelder en Co, Opium, and WNL op Zondag.

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FACTS LEGEND Icons

Company fields

Locations in the Netherlands

Actuarial Science

Locations outside the Netherlands

Banking

Employees in the Netherlands Employees outside the Netherlands Also available for students who don’t speak Dutch

(Strategy) Consulting Data Science Operations Research Research Trading

Career

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ACCENTURE

COMPANY PROFILE ACCENTURE. NEW APPLIED NOW. WHAT WE DO We are working with our clients to apply innovation and intelligence at the heart of their organizations. Together, we are building new business architectures that break away from the rigidity of legacies and provide organizations opportunities to compete and grow in the New. Accenture solves the toughest technological challenges through standout strategy, consulting, digital, technology, security and operations. Working with over three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, we drive innovation and shape the world around us. With expertise in more than 40 industries and all business functions, we deliver ground-breaking outcomes for a new digital world.

WHO WE ARE AND HOW WE WORK Coming from diverse backgrounds, we work together to solve the most challenging problems with leading-edge technologies. Empowered with innovative tools, continues learning and backed up by a global community, we stay ahead of the game while making a difference everywhere we go. We empower you to be your best—both professionally and personally. We embrace who you are, and we invest in your future. Start your career at Accenture and you will continue to learn and grow at a rapid pace!

Want to know more? Visit us at www.accenture-insights.nl

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THESIS POSSIBILITIES DIGITAL TALENT FACTORY At Digital Applied Intelligence, we apply various techniques such as machine learning and econometrics to create actionable client value through insight generation.

We will determine the internship topic together with you and make sure it’s aligned with the requirements of your university. Possible internship topics include building a recommender system, churn prediction, forecasting time series and sentiment analysis.

You will get a supervisor and an informal buddy and together with all the Digital interns, supervisors and buddies, you are part of the Digital Talent Factory community with monthly feedback sessions, activities and trainings. The internship is for at least four months for four to five days a week at our Amsterdam office.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE The application procedure at Accenture starts with an online assessment after your CV and motivation letter have been checked. After passing this assessment, you will be invited for an interview with one or two consultants. If they feel like you would be a good fit, you will have a final interview with a manager.

Are your ready to join Accenture as Digital Talent Factory graduation intern and make an impact? Send your resume and cover letter to Marlouk Mutsaerts via stages@accenture.com.

FACTS ACCENTURE 4

3000

(Strategy) Consulting Data Science

120

Career

430.000

Research

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BUILDING BLOCKS

COMPANY PROFILE WHO ARE WE? Building Blocks is a team of passionate and creative data scientists located in Amsterdam and Tilburg. By providing our clients with accurate consumer predictions, we enable them to become more customer centric and enhance their business results. In this way we empower companies to give their consumers the personalized offers and services they desire.

At Building Blocks, you will be in control. Meaning that you have the freedom to design your own job and get it done in your own way! We offer a unique work environment in which we continuously focus on further developing your skills, so you can achieve great results every day. Moreover, you will experience that having fun and celebrating our achievements together is what boosts our team spirit.

THESIS POSSIBILITIES WHAT COULD BE YOUR CHALLENGE? To guarantee high quality data science solutions for our clients, it is essential that our state-ofthe-art data science solutions, remain in the top segment of the market. This means that we need to continuously evaluate and improve our technology and solutions. Do you want to advance the technology behind our solutions in a topic that is relevant for one of our impressive retail or insurance clients? Then you are the intern we are looking for!

Currently, we have the following topics available: 1. Optimize recommendations: For our clients it is very important to offer the right personalized content to their customers to increase relevance and conversions. Classical recommendation systems give user-product combinations,

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ranked (not quantified yet) only on the likeliness that the user is interested in the product. This is already very valuable, however it becomes epic when business goals can be incorporated in these optimizations. It is your challenge to create an algorithm that optimizes recommendations according to our client’s business goals. Not only on likeliness to buy as in a classic recommendations system, but on other criteria such as profit or revenue.

2. Price elasticity: The retail market is very transparent and competition is fierce, therefore it is very important to make a competitive offer in terms of price.

However, the consumer’s reaction to price changes and differences is not the same for every product. For some products consumers do not respond to price changes whereas demand for other products is much more sensitive to price changes. Are you able to create the algorithm which predicts the demand of products on any price point, given the price of the competition and optimize the market position for our clients? Are you ready to unleash your talent and make impact on the future of data science solutions? Then we would like to meet you!

APPLICATION PROCEDURE WHAT WOULD BE THE NEXT STEP? •

• •

If we both feel there is a match after the Speeddate Event, a follow-up conversation at one of our offices can be scheduled which will take 1-1.5 hours (you will be asked to complete an online personality assessment upfront).

The next and final part of our recruitment procedure is a test (3 hours) in which we will assess your technical skills.

Are you in a hurry? We can schedule the appointments in one week, but normally the interview process takes around three weeks.

FACTS BUILDING BLOCKS

Career

2

40

Consulting

0

0

Data Science

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CAPGEMINI

BEDRIJFSPROFIEL Vrienden terugbetalen, de voorraad in een winkel checken of je pakketje volgen.

Zonder dat je het weet heb je op verschillende manieren al regelmatig te maken gehad met Capgemini. Samen met onze opdrachtgevers creëren wij namelijk business- & IT-oplossingen die aansluiten op de behoefte van de klant en concrete resultaten geven.

KIES EEN CARRIÈRE DIE BIJ JOU PAST Een typisch consultancy bedrijf? Nee, dat zijn we niet. We kennen geen vaste kaders en ook jouw pad ligt nog lang niet vast. Je bepaalt bij ons namelijk zelf hoe jou carrière eruit ziet. Kies je bijvoorbeeld voor de rol van expert of ga je voor een functie in de top? Waar jouw ambities ook liggen, als professional heb je de vrijheid om zelf je koers te bepalen.

DE CAPGEMINI’ER Een fanatieke blokfluiter, enthousiaste Star Wars verzamelaar of creatieve cartoonist? Bij Capgemini kun je zijn wie je bent! En is het jouw talent dat telt. Onze collega’s beschouwen samenwerken als een van de belangrijkste kernwaarden. Want IT draait niet alleen om technologieën en methodes. Maar vooral om mensen.

Wil jij ook een impact maken en een bijdrage leveren aan toffe projecten? Kijk dan vooral op werkenbijcapgemini.nl.

SCRIPTIEMOGELIJKHEDEN Geen zin in koffierondjes, telefoontjes beantwoorden en kopieerwerk tijdens je stage? Kies dan voor een afstudeerstage bij Capgemini. Want met verschillende opdrachten en onderzoeksgebieden, maak jij écht het verschil. En zorg je wellicht voor een mooie start van jouw carrière.

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De technologische ontwikkelingen gaan razendsnel. Daarom stimuleren we onze klanten en partners om innovatie hoog op de agenda te zetten. Om onze klanten en partners hierbij te helpen én om ervoor te zorgen dat wijzelf ook altijd meegaan en werken met de nieuwste technologieën, hebben we bij Capgemini de Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE) geïntroduceerd. Een wereldwijd, groeiend netwerk van verschillende innovatieve centra die ervoor zorgen dat we bij Capgemini altijd voor blijven lopen. We werken hier met de laatste technologieën, proberen de nieuwste innovaties uit en kijken hoe dit in het bedrijfsleven toegepast kan worden. En als stagiair ga jij voor ons hiermee aan de slag!

ONZE ONDERZOEKSGEBIEDEN Je kunt bij ons stage lopen binnen verschillende gebieden. Onderzoek bijvoorbeeld hoe nieuwe technologieën kunnen bijdragen aan corporate social responsibility (CSR). Zoek de grenzen van nieuwe innovaties op en ga na hoe je deze kan inzetten in het bedrijfsleven. Of geef anderen een kijkje in de wereld van innovatie en technologie met een toffe game of demo. Waar je interesses ook liggen, we hebben een tal aan mogelijkheden. Dus ontdek het snel en vind het onderzoeksgebied dat bij jou past!

SOLLICITATIEPROCEDURE Onze procedure kan heel snel gaan. Studenten solliciteren via onze website, de sollicitatie komt binnen bij ons stagebureau. Onze recruiters zullen contact opnemen met de studenten om te kijken wat de wensen zijn en of er aansluiting is met Capgemini. Vervolgens maken zij een assessment en komen ze op gesprek, na dit gesprek wordt direct duidelijk of ze kunnen starten. Dit proces kan dus heel snel gaan! Het zou binnen één week rond kunnen zijn.

FACTS CAPGEMINI 1

3500

(Strategy) Consulting Data Science

40

Career

200.000

Operations Research

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DYNAMIC CREDIT

COMPANY PROFILE ABOUT DYNAMIC CREDIT Our mission is to create a better match between savings and credit for a more prosperous and sustainable society. Dynamic Credit is seen as innovative, is growing fast and is making revealing opportunities in credit. Clients choose Dynamic Credit because we give them deep insight and make them truly understand the opportunities in alternative fixed income.

Dynamic Credit Dynamic Credit is a fixed income asset management and direct lending firm. Founded in 2003, Dynamic Credit has offices in Amsterdam, New York and Jakarta.

In December 2017 Dynamic Credit entered into a strategic partnership with Aegon, who has become a 25% shareholder of Dynamic Credit. The partnership enables further growth into new lending products, like SME and buy-to-let loans.

The team of experts at Dynamic Credit have extensive experience valuing, sourcing, creating and managing alternative fixed income products. In 2015, Dynamic Credit set up the first online mortgage distribution platform of the Netherlands (bijBouwe).

Dynamic Credit is organised along product lines: Asset Management, Direct Lending and LoanClear investment servicing. The Key Functions people (like legal, compliance, risk, talent management, finance, office management) make sure the organisation can do its job well.

Dynamic Credit is bright, honest and dynamic.

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THESIS POSSIBILITIES • • •

Dynamic Credit offers students the possibility to write their thesis within specific teams giving a unique opportunity to combine practice and academia in a topic that is relevant for both the intern and Dynamic Credit.

We highly value the quality of the thesis and therefore will not bother the intern with meaningless tasks. Of course the thesis internship can be combined with a regular internship, e.g. 4 days thesis 1 day working.

There is no specific set of topics available and we do expect input from the thesis interns. Examples of topics: prepayment risk, hedging or valuation.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE •

Application: CV, cover letter, initial ideas for thesis topic. Then interview / case / further refinement of the thesis topic.

FACTS DYNAMIC CREDIT 1

85

Actuarial Science Banking

2

Career

7

Data Science

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EY

BEDRIJFSPROFIEL De fiscale gevolgen van de verhoging van de pensioenleeftijd, de vergrijzing van de bevolking, een hogere levensverwachting, de digitalisering en innovatie binnen de verzekeringssector, big data, cyber- en privacy issues die van invloed zijn op schadeverzekeraars en de intrede van nieuwe wet- en regelgeving (o.a.

IFRS 17) zijn maar een aantal onderwerpen waar EY Actuarissen zich mee bezig houdt. Voor deze adviesgroep zijn we op zoek naar kandidaten die hun scriptie bij ons willen schrijven. Ook zij wij altijd opzoek naar starters. GeĂŻnteresseerd? We ontmoeten je graag!

SCRIPTIEMOGELIJKHEDEN JOUW UITDAGING Tijdens een afstudeerstage bij EY Actuarissen verricht je zelfstandig onderzoek vanuit ons kantoor in Amsterdam. Het onderwerp van de opdracht wordt in onderling overleg vastgesteld. Je krijgt een begeleider en mentor die je ondersteunt bij het formuleren van de probleemstelling bij de start van je scriptie, maar zeker ook (academische) begeleiding geven gedurende je stage. Daarnaast helpt hij/zij je wanneer je praktische vragen hebt en zorgt ervoor dat je, indien gewenst, een aantal dagen kunt meelopen in de praktijk. Een afstudeerstage bij EY Actuarissen biedt jou de gelegenheid om tijdens het afstuderen een waardevolle en relevante ervaring op te doen.

JOUW VERANTWOORDELIJKHEDEN Als scriptiestagiair is het jouw verantwoordelijkheid om zelfstandig onderzoek uit te voeren voor de afdeling Actuarial Services. Je bent zelfsturend en proactief en weet de juiste mensen binnen de organisatie te vinden die jou verder kunnen helpen bij het optimaliseren van je onderzoek. Je maakt makkelijk contact en bent, indien nodig, bereid advisors te ondersteunen bij verschillende werkzaamheden. Je bent beschikbaar voor minimaal 4 dagen per week. Wij helpen

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je uiteraard bij het bepalen van een passend scriptieonderwerp, maar waarderen het ten zeerste als je zelf met een voorstel komt. Hierbij kan je denken aan een onderwerp in een van de volgende richtingen: • Asset Risk Management • Schadeverzekeringen • Levensverzekeringen • Pensioenen • Data Analytics • Zorg

SOLLICITATIEPROCEDURE De sollicitatieprocedure ziet er als volgt uit: -

CV Uploaden, dan vindt er een review plaats Online Assessment Eerste gesprek Tweede gesprek Aanbod

BELANGSTELLING? Voor meer informatie over de procedure kun je contact opnemen met Sonia de Graaf, Recruiter, via sonia.de.graaf@nl.ey.com of +31 6 15349164.

FACTS EY 15

4287

Actuarial science (Strategy) Consulting

150

Career

247.570

Data Science

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PWC

BEDRIJFSPROFIEL PwC is een netwerk van firma’s in 158 landen met meer dan 236.000 mensen, waarvan ruim 5000 in Nederland. Wij zien het als onze taak om kwaliteit te leveren op het gebied van assurance-, belasting- en adviesdiensten.

EEN WERELD VOL KANSEN Jouw carrière is wat het is: van jou. Jij bepaalt, wij bieden je de kansen. Op uitdagend werk dat er toe doet. Om het maximale uit jezelf te halen. Om mee te bouwen aan vertrouwen in de maatschappij en een bijdrage te leveren aan het oplossen van belangrijke problemen.

LEREN EN INSPIREREN Je wordt intensief begeleid en er is volop ruimte voor jouw ambitie en persoonlijke keuzes. We bieden afwisselende werkzaamheden bij vooraanstaande klanten. Je hebt toegang tot een wereldwijd netwerk en deelt je kennis, ideeën en vragen met de beste professionals uit je vakgebied. Je werkt in multidisciplinaire teams met collega’s die elkaar inspireren. Ook daarom vind je bij PwC veel mensen met verschillende opleidingen en culturele achtergronden.

VERRAS JEZELF EN JE KLANTEN Om onze klanten te verrassen, blijven we zoeken naar nieuwe invalshoeken.

Daarom helpen we je graag verder bij het ontdekken van je sterke punten. Met coaching, inspirerende collega’s, opleidingen en de mogelijkheid te switchen tussen sectoren en vestigingen. Of je gaat een korte of langere periode naar het buitenland. Als het om jouw ontwikkeling gaat, kent PwC geen grenzen. Kijk voor actuele evenementen, stages en vacatures op pwc.nl/carriere.

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SOLLICITATIEPROCEDURE

Actuarial Science

FACTS PWC 12

5500

776

23.600

Consulting Data Science Trading

Career

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THUISBEZORGD

COMPANY PROFILE In 2000 student Jitse Groen founded and launched one of the world’s first online food delivery marketplaces, Thuisbezorgd.nl. Within the last 18 years, we made it from a tiny little student room into a billion-dollar company: Takeaway.com. As the leading online food delivery marketplace in Europe, we currently connect millions of consumers and tens of thousands of restaurants in 11 European countries and Vietnam. With over 1100 hardworking international employees, spread across 5 offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Israel, and Vietnam, we are planning to keep on growing with one goal in mind: “become the most beloved food ordering brand in Europe”. It is not without good reason that every month 25 new employees are hired. The market we’re operating in changes rapidly and is still growing, the potential is nowhere near yet exploited. As we like doing everything ourselves we have a lot of in-house expertise

THESIS POSSIBILITIES DATA ANALYTICS INTERN - RESTAURANT GROWTH TEAM (6 MONTHS The restaurant growth team at Takeaway.com is seeking for a business-minded data analyst intern with great intellectual curiosity, critical thinking skills and hands on coding experience in SQL and Python/R. This role will have the primary responsibilities of helping build out an anomaly detection system for Takeaway. com, perform ad-hoc analysis and build dashboards.

ANOMALY DETECTION With an increase in complexity and demand for online fraud detection, we at Takeaway are in the process of building out our own fraud/anomaly detection system. The person in this role will be part of the team responsible for building out and implementing our in-house anomaly detection system. The first phase of this project will involve defining and researching various use cases and the tools that can be applied to solve these problems. In the second phase we will implement 20

different techniques and compare performance to determine what works best.

The last phase will involve productionizing and creating visualizations to track and send alerts when outliers/anomalies are detected.

OTHER TASKS Perform in-depth analysis to identify areas of improvement for restaurants Make information and KPI’s available for other departments in dashboards Respond to ad-hoc requests for data collection and analysis

APPLICATION PROCEDURE The procedure consists of two interviews with the Business Intelligence team.

FACTS THUISBEZORGD 2

400 Data Science

5

Career

1050

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CAREER COACHING UVA

Have you put together a CV, cover letter or LinkedIn profile and would you like personal feedback? Or do you have an interview coming up and would you like to practice your skills?

The UvA career coaches are happy to help and offer a constructive chat, feedback, inspiration and information about your study and employment options.

Key subjects you can discuss with a career coach include: • • • • • • • • •

Study choice or switching degree programmes CV checks Cover letter checks Insight into your qualities, interests and motivation Interview practice Getting more out of LinkedIn Choosing a Master’s Entrepreneurship Exploring the job market

Do you have an interview coming up and would you like to practice? Book an individual practice session with one of our career coaches to help you prepare: • • • •

You practice the interview in a one-on-one setting with an UvA career coach, who will give you practical tips and feedback on your performance.

The UvA career coach will prepare the session on the basis of your CV, cover letter and the vacancy you have applied for, so you need to send these to us in advance.

Please note that the interview will be general in nature, focusing on skills, interests, and generic criteria, and will not be geared towards a specific job or sector.

The interview practice sessions are intended for students and recent graduates who have applied for an internship or graduate job, and who have been invited to come in for an interview.

You can book a 15-30 minute individual coaching session with a career coach at the Career Desk (E 1.63, open on Tuesday and Thursday: 12:00-14:00), by phone (Wednesday between 10.00-11.00 at T: +31(0)20 525 1919) or via e-mail: ebcc-eb@uva.nl. Please state your specific career coaching question(s).

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