On 20 November 2015, Deloitte Luxembourg hosted the Grand Finale of the 2015 Young Women Challenge at their premises in Neudorf.
More than 40 young female students were invited to test their projects and have their ideas challenged by an expert jury. Sarah Khabirpour, Head of Strategy, Regulatory Affairs & MarCom at Banque Internationale de Luxembourg, was invited to act as a member of the jury. As part of the selection process the teams also got to spend quality time with selected key individuals from the different service lines.
Meltem Aydogmus, Valentina Guerra, Marianne Pelot and Marianne Rangel from the NEOMA Business School in Reims won this year’s challenge based on their creative, well-executed and carefully thought-through project. The winners will be awarded an internship at Deloitte Luxembourg.
The Young Woman Challenge
The Deloitte Young Women Challenge is an initiative aimed at attracting more female candidates to the audit and consulting professions. Constantly striving to attract a range of diverse and highly-qualified candidates to the financial services industry—an industry that is becoming more and more important, Deloitte Luxembourg wants to hear from young women how Deloitte can become a premier career destination for them.
Last year’s contest asked female students from one school to identify what actions a professional services firm should pursue to attract talented young women, encouraging a healthy gender balance and highly-skilled management. In view of the inspiring ideas and suggestions that came out of last year’s competition, this year’s challenge spanned more schools throughout the Greater Region.
