The course

This course is designed to support strategic career development for experienced analysts. Whether you are considering promotion, looking to deepen your knowledge as an expert in your analytical field or simply deciding what to do next, the course will provide you with tools to develop a fulfilling career.

During the course you will have the opportunity to reflect on your career to date and take stock of your skills before developing aspirations for the future. You will be encouraged to consider diverse future career possibilities, even those that are currently hard to imagine as an analyst. We will also discuss the importance of developing broader leadership, management and communications skills which are key to ensuring analysts keep a wide range of career choices open.

Who should come?

The course is suitable for professional economists, statisticians, social researchers, scientists and operational researchers at government grades G7 / E level.

To allow for discussion the course is limited to 6 participants.

Key outcomes

Understand yourself better to make better career decisions

Appreciate the relative strengths of your analytical and broader skills

Build up a wide range of potential career choices

Develop a strategic plan to develop your career goals

The logistics

The course is run over three half-days, 10am – 1pm on Friday 18th June, Friday 25th June and Thursday 16th September 2021. There is some preparation ahead of the course and exercises between sessions.

The course is delivered fully online over three half-day sessions. It will be presented by Catherine Connolly from economicsense and is highly interactive.

There is no need to download any apps or software as the course is delivered through a web-based application - you only need to click on a web link. Full joining instructions will be sent ahead of the course.

Price

The price of £420.00 includes £70 of VAT. Your invoice will state the VAT and economicsense Ltd's VAT Registration Number of 376550278.

The tutor

Catherine Connolly is the founder of economicsense, a specialist economics training provider. Catherine is also on the Council of the Society of Professional Economists, and teaches policy economics at Leeds University.

Since establishing economicsense in 2018, Catherine has taught hundreds of professionals in government ministries, corporates and regulators across the UK, delivering both online and in direct training sessions. Catherine has also provided technical assistance to international economic institutions.

Prior to setting up economicsense, Catherine was in the British Civil Service where she was a member of the Government Economic Service and the Senior Civil Service. She worked at HM Treasury, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and at the former Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). She has also worked for Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, the New Zealand Treasury and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. In these roles Catherine worked on a wide range of economic topics covering macroeconomic forecasting, globalisation, monetary policy and cost-benefit analysis, the latter including working on the 2018 edition of HM Treasury’s Green Book.

Catherine studied at Otago University in New Zealand, where she gained a post-graduate honours degree, specialising in macro-economics.

Further information

Please feel free to contact us for more information.

Telephone: +44 7910 384755

Website: www.economicsense.co.uk

Email: info@economicsense.co.uk