I'd be tempted to just ditch the slides and talk. That's what I usually do.
They will want to know about salary, but my experience is that even older teenagers don't really appreciate what £20,000 / £30,000 / £50,000 means. I would talk about salary in terms of lifestyle (e.g. where do you live / in what size of house / what car do you drive / where do you go on holiday).
Half an hour isn't actually very long. I'd budget to talk for twenty minutes, leaving ten minutes to ask for questions. That assumes this is a talk to people who have expressed an interest in this career. If this is a talk to a general group, they'll probably have fewer questions.
Something that I often get at accountancy talks is that your stereotypical nerd doing maths, physics and further maths A-levels comes up to me and tells me that he wants to be an accountant because he "really enjoys maths". They're always disappointed when I tell them that accountancy rarely involves any maths of even GCSE standard and that if they really wanted to be an accountant, doing something like Business Studies, Economics or even anything where you have to occasionally write sentences would have been a good idea. You could therefore offer maths academia as a career where "enjoying maths" is actually vital and where the maths is more mathematically interesting than monetary unit sampling and discount rates.
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They will want to know about salary, but my experience is that even older teenagers don't really appreciate what £20,000 / £30,000 / £50,000 means. I would talk about salary in terms of lifestyle (e.g. where do you live / in what size of house / what car do you drive / where do you go on holiday).
Half an hour isn't actually very long. I'd budget to talk for twenty minutes, leaving ten minutes to ask for questions. That assumes this is a talk to people who have expressed an interest in this career. If this is a talk to a general group, they'll probably have fewer questions.
Something that I often get at accountancy talks is that your stereotypical nerd doing maths, physics and further maths A-levels comes up to me and tells me that he wants to be an accountant because he "really enjoys maths". They're always disappointed when I tell them that accountancy rarely involves any maths of even GCSE standard and that if they really wanted to be an accountant, doing something like Business Studies, Economics or even anything where you have to occasionally write sentences would have been a good idea. You could therefore offer maths academia as a career where "enjoying maths" is actually vital and where the maths is more mathematically interesting than monetary unit sampling and discount rates.