Real-life career videos and ideas for your future
Real-life career videos and ideas for your future
| Selina
Global Technology & Operations |
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| 00:02 | My name is Selina. I work in technology at Bank of America but I’m a technology architect so I’m looking at technology strategy, understanding what are we, what have we built so far, what’s our capability, what are we planning to build, you know what’s our strategy for the future and how we’re going to get there so I’m looking at all areas across our trading businesses where we have technology and working with our teams of experts and developers to kind of harmonise that strategy and kind of have a route forward. |
| 00:38 | Technology is like the fourth industrial revolution, it’s very exciting to see technology change and also what it could solve for the future. There’s so many interesting problems to solve, many social problems to solve as well that we can change with technology so that’s why I’m really excited about my place in technology and also the future for it. |
| 01:06 | When I was growing up I actually wanted to be a fashion designer. I really loved art and that was the one thing that I could see on, on TV and in the news about this is a very creative thing to do, I love drawing, I love clothes so that’s, you know that’s what I saw and that even though you know my dad was you know doing technology there wasn’t a natural thing that I was gonna, oh yeah I want to do tech as well and throughout school I did maths, I never understood the application of it. I wanted to explore computing and do that at university and I saw great they only need maths so brilliant, I haven’t done Computer Science A Level, it’s great, I, I can do it and looking back, I think I didn’t have any fear and I think when making choices you know don’t worry too much about it as long as you’ve got the requirements you know just, just go for it. |
| 02:08 | It wasn’t a well thought plan you know that I would magically get this amazing career, I had to get a summer job and I just applied to lots of summer internships whoever would take me and luckily somehow, I got a lot of rejections by the way, so it’s not you know, it’s not plain sailing, you do get a lot of rejections but I got um uh an internship offer at Goldman Sachs. I didn’t know who Goldman Sachs was, I didn’t know what an investment bank was, I didn’t know anything about financial services, what I did have was some coding ability. |
| 02:42 | Any work experience that you do the key thing is to make those connections, make those relationships with people so not only learning but you could use those contacts for the future. |
| 02:54 | I just enjoy what I do and I think if you’re passionate about what you do it’s very easy to be motivated so it’s about finding your passion, I think. |
| 03:04 | END OF TRANSCRIPTION |
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