Facilitated by the Careers, Employability and Skills service at Queen’s and Global Investor Simulations, the trading game is open to students from all levels and disciplines and simulates the highs and lows of the trading room floor. This year’s event saw students compete for top prizes including insight experience with participating employers including PwC, Deloitte, First Derivatives and Fintru.

Karen McCann, a Careers Consultant at Queen’s who ran the event in the Computer Science Building in conjunction with Global Investor Simulations said: “We had a full house. It was a brilliant evening. Students and employers were buzzing!”

The participating employers and their winning students are listed below:

First Derivates (alumna Leah Tohill, Graduate Recruitment Executive;  Lorna Fitzpatrick, Financial Engineer and Graduate recruit and alumnus, Niall Clarke)

Winners: Charles Tucker  (Economics) and Toby Pallas        (Economics)

PwC  (Shoaib Tareen)

Winners: Yansen Li  (Accounting ) and Yuan Wang  (Pharmacy)

FinTru (Claire Brennan, Talent Partner and Niamh Heaney, Talent Partner)

Adam Dawson (Business Economics) Alex Mulree (Business Economics)   

DELOITTE  (Will Gordon, Senior Consultant and Dean Zerai, Consultant and alumnus)

Caolan McGlade (Business Economics ) Paul Gillbride (Business Economics)

For details of other insight experience and business challenges, please visit the careers events page GO.QUB.AC.UK/CAREERSEVENTS.