AyaKhaireh is interested in finance and business due to her father's experience overcoming barriers to provide her an education. She wants to help others achieve stability through her financial knowledge. Her knowledge has expanded through work with banks and reading the Economist. She has visited banks through apprenticeships and finds she enjoys helping people with finances. Studying A-Levels in business, finance, media and art have made her more knowledgeable, creative, and able to understand others' perspectives to improve her work in finance. She volunteers teaching in Somalia to help the underprivileged as her father sacrificed for her education.

1. AyaKhaireh
I’minterested in the world of finance and business. The reason why I became so interested in the subject
so early on in life, was because of my father, and how he had to overcame the many barriers in his life,
such as leaving his home country of Somali amidst the civil war, he gaveup on everything so that I could
have an education and build a great stable careerfrom it, so that I would never lose as much as he did
during the civil work. Inspired by my father, I would like to help others create a stable life through my
knowledge of finance and business.
Without the knowledge gained from studying finance and business, we would not have a stable economy
with economic growth. Studying Finance has allowed me to explore the ways in which efficient personal
finance can help you build a stable future; such as saving for the future and unforeseen circumstances
(positive or negative), which can have an impact on your income, I’ve also learnt about the ways in which
the government can help individuals with low income, through the welfare system, which includes a
variety of benefits which a divest rangeof people apply for from different agesand different
circumstances. Learning about the financial industry and how it can impact our economy locally and
globally has opened my mind to the possibilities of what I can become. What I hope to gain from studying
about business and finance is to have the capability of understanding the decisions made by the
government.
My Knowledge of the financial sector has been expanded by talking to representatives of Barclays and
Lloyds bank in my school. I was able to ask a variety of individuals who work in different areas of the bank
about their careerchoice and how they achieve that role. What impressed me so much and inspired me
even more to work in the financial industry was the way they were promoting females from different
backgrounds and ethnicities to enter the world of finance, so that the financial sector could have
different viewpoint, attitudes and skills from many different perspectives to help improve the world of
finance. As I come from and grew up in two different backgrounds with two different cultures, I know
that the financial industry is lacking in diversity of people from different backgrounds and cultures. Also
to gain further knowledge about the financial sector and what’s happening in our economy right now, I
read in a daily bases the Economist magazine.
Living and studying in London, the world’s leading financial centre has enabled me to visit a variety banks
insight apprenticeship. To learn more about different careers in the financial sector. I went on Barclays
and Lloyds Insight apprenticeships where I got the opportunity to gain more knowledge about investment
banking, retailbanking and commercial banking by going to observe and speak to people with a career in
those sectors right now, enhancing my knowledge about the atmosphere in the financial sector. The
experience of going on the insight apprenticeships established to me that in my future I may want to
work in the area of banking (accounting,) business management or in insurance, as I enjoy helping people
with their income.
Studying finances has enabled me to learn more about the economy and how it is still developing. By
studying finance in A-level it has allowed me to study about subjects that will be useful in my future such
as debt management, taxation, personal finance as well as the welfare system which relates to me
personally. By learning about personal finance it has allowed me to learn how you can save for your
future aspiration (short term and long term) by budgeting or creating a financial forecast so that you can
see if you have any surplus (income left over). This subject has made me become more awareof what is
going on in the economy by using resources like BBC News in my own time to get statistics and facts
from, by doing this in my own time it has made me become more independent and has enchants my
research skills and my knowledge of what is happening in the world right now.

2. AyaKhaireh
A-level media studies, has expanded my knowledge of how social learning is applied through the media,
by observing behaviour from different media sources such as the news and multiple adverts which are
played on a specific channel or after a specific show where target audiences will be on, to help seek the
right attention from the aimed audience. The world of business uses a diverts range of media products to
get there goods and services known to the public. Social learning is that behaviour is learned through the
environment by the development of observational learning. Using this process through the media has
help our economy become the world’s leading financial industry, this is because of the uses of new media
products such as facebook and twitter, now you can learn more about target audiences such as specific
ageranges, gender as well as the most dominant language spoken by the key target audience. What this
does is help accommodate businesses with key information of what products people want, which will
provide a better return of investments to businesses.
Studying A-level fine art has made me become more independent, observational, creative and
resourceful. As I have to learn how to research information about multiple artist, some widely known and
some not. This has enabled me to become more patient when researching so that I can get the accurate
and correct information needed. Also by studying fine art in A-level has allowed me to become more
observational to my surroundings and to what people find appealing to look at or to hear about helping
me know what the public want using my creative eye from the study of art. Art reflects different theories
and ways that people saw and see in the world, through culture, religion and beliefs. What this has done
is improve and develop my critical thinking, helping me with different circumstances, as a result of this I
have knowledge of how subtle differences and similarities can affect and individual’s needs and wants.
On July 2015 I travelled to Somalia which is still an unstable country while I was there I volunteered to
help teach underprivileged children from Somalia, as I felt the desire to share my knowledge and help
people which are less fortunate than me. I also volunteered to help teach English and maths to girls in
Noradin high girl’s secondary school for a month throughout the day for thoughts who wanted extra
tuition to improve on their skills, these sessions was completely free. As I felt the need to help them
achieve their future aspirations, as their main aims now of becoming fluent in English can help them full
fill their future goals as English is an international language which can help you to peruse a careeroutside
of Somalia which can also open a lot of doors in careerwise nationally and internationally. Another
reason why this was my main priority was because I wanted to help young people that are in the same
situation my father was in. I would reflect my need for helping people is from my father and the way he
gave up on everything including putting his careeron hold as well as moving to another country for my
education and me so that I can peruse my aspirations.
Outside school I enjoy interacting with others as well as travelling and exploring new places I haven’t
been before. Also in my free time I enjoy going to the cinema to watch new releases. I would consider
myself as a very sociable person as I enjoy talking to people. As well as being sociable I would consider
myself as charitable as I enjoy giving money to charity as well as racing money for charity in my sixth form
I took part in a lead role in the ‘charity drive’ in raising money for ‘right to play’ by organising a bake sale
as well as a sponsored walk for a course of two weeks. I enjoyed taking part in the charity drive and it also
ended up being very successful. In my free time I also enjoy taking part in community events.