hi everyone welcome to our channel so for those of you who don't know i'm becca and i'm sophie
but you can call me soph because we didn't have the instagram handle to say sophie -
sophie and becca was- yeah sophie and becca, becca and sophie, all of them were taken so we went for
@BeccaandSoph, so welcome to our channel obviously this is our first video
we're very excited we are a little bit nervous so be kind but in that respect please like and
subscribe yes also comment to say hi yes and also we'd love to know you know what videos you'd like
to see... what else would we like to know your thoughts yeah generally what do you think to our
videos yeah what could we do differently do you hate in the background do you love the background
you know we'd love to don't offend my mum hahah but yes please do subscribe like all of that
and also follow us on instagram, as soph said, @beccaandsoph all one word yes let's look down um
so we just wanted to give you a brief overview of our backgrounds till now
you know like a journey i guess of being friends and also our jobs and careers so i
guess the first thing to mention is obviously if you haven't guessed already we're best friends
um and we're both graduates we've just started our graduate jobs well end of last year for so
from start of this year for me yeah both really recently yes so we graduated with class of 2020
and quite soon after we started didn't we yes yes very and i'm doing accounting and sophie is doing
law yes so how do we meet sophie well i don't actually know because so you tell
them because i don't know so actually our mutual friend who hopefully is watching
hi char introduced us at the bus stop on year six induction she did yeah so like before you
go to year seven you know how you have that day where you like meet everyone in your year
it's a little bit frantic well we actually got the bus together yes so we live in the same village
literally just a walk away from each other yeah and i assume that we were just stood at the bus
stop or maybe we met on the bus and just said hi yeah and then the rest is history - as they say
no so we've gone through school and sixth form together
and then as becca said we went to universities but what we haven't told yet is we went to
different universities how exciting i mean we couldn't be that far apart we were like
30 minutes apart from each other yeah we still have to see each other quite a lot
absolutely yeah definitely um so in school we did fairly similar subjects um
at gcse i think we differed a little bit to be honest both did business but then soph did dance
and i did drama and then we did those outside of school as well yeah definitely and things like i
did geography you did history oh so different - opposites attract - and then in college
we did the same in terms of maths and business but then but then i did econ and sophie did law
but we did do extracurricular stuff together we did so that's how we spent most of our time
together um just to give a brief summary we did like young enterprise public speaking yeah and
we were also co-presidents of the student union yeah equivalent to head girl actually
make sure you get that it's on my linkedin yeah so we did all those things together but
then obviously we did stuff separately too like we both had part-time jobs that were separate
yeah we did so what did you do as your part-time job actually i was a waitress well amongst other
things i feel like over the years i've done lots of bits and bobs you have but
yeah main one waitress and then we actually got to waitress together at that restaurant
last year last year that was so fun yeah really this has been our dream since we
were little, to work there together yeah so my part-time job was working for boots the retail
store i worked in a city centre for about a year or two during sixth form but yeah it was
really good to have part-time jobs yeah highly recommend first recommendation put it on your CV
so then once we were finished with college we went to uni so we both did pretty well in all of our
relationships to be honest yeah GCSEs went well college went well we both got like all A's and
A*s oh so becca got A*AA and i got AAA but really good yeah we're very happy oh my gosh great okay
um yeah we're really happy with that and i mean we did a lot of extra curricular stuff too so i think
we balanced it really well we did yeah it was a struggle but we came through and then yeah uni
obviously we both did three-year courses in law and accounting and finance um and then graduated
both with firsts yeah first class degree i love that so as we both went to different universities
i don't know if we've said yet where did you go oh i went to Warwick i went to Birmingham so yeah
30 minutes away not too far yeah so because we have different experiences to share with you we
thought that we dedicate a video each yeah an honest review of our university experience yes
so that is coming this week so make sure you know you subscribe like subscribe notifications on all
that um yeah make sure you're subscribed if you'd like to see that obviously we'd love to have you
yeah and also university warwick and the university of birmingham are fab unis and
i'm sure a lot of people would really appreciate someone who's been there just to tell them how
it is tell them what's good what to look out for kind of what to get involved with yes so
we've made sure to cover all those things in our videos yes and it really i mean for me anyway was
not what i was expecting at all so good to have some inside knowledge i guess for sure
okay so right now we are both in our graduate roles so i am currently well technically i meant
to be in london but obviously i'm in nottingham here right now um long story basically covid is
the short answer but i will be moving to london soon hopefully not so soon okay maybe not soon
soon but like i don't want her to go see i'm trying to bring soph with me so actually we're
so full do you want to explain your role yeah sure so i am a legal assistant in a top 50 law firm
i'm currently working for the their office in nottingham but they do have offices around the uk
one of which is in london yes so i think becca was just about to say but we are both going to
train as part of our role at universities and when i start my training next year i'm hoping to
move to a different city potentially london so we might be reunited there yes becca what do you do
so i'm in accounting um i'm if you know anything about accounting i'm in one of the big four
in their london office which is very exciting i think it's a great place to start your careers
and i mean we can talk loads more about it in a different video yeah we've got a lot to say
absolutely yeah but just briefly um yes so like sophie said i've got three years of like exams
and stuff and then i qualify as an accountant very exciting so we actually qualify at the
same time as like lawyers and accountants we do i think it's the same month and yeah um i'll be
a qualified lawyer and you'll be a qualified accountant yeah how excited i do very so we
we timed it perfectly really we did it wasn't our fault or on purpose yeah but we timed it perfectly
so next we wanted to talk to you about why youtube and why now because i guess it's a bit of a weird
timing you know i'm about to move to london yeah so why are youtube and why now so why youtube
is we want to share our experiences with you obviously we've both been through
school sixth form and university and we've managed to get graduate roles
so we've got a few stories to tell a few tips to share absolutely so we just thought
it would be a great platform so people can log on subscribe sit down with a pepper
and subscribe make sure you do that and yeah you can just hear about our experiences and our advice
yeah because we do have some things to share definitely i guess our main thing is we want
to share our experiences so you guys don't make the same mistakes that we did yeah that you guys
know someone maybe who's an accountant or a lawyer which we didn't have so we went to like a very
normal state school we didn't know any accountants or lawyers and we didn't really have anyone to
ask those questions to like for example what did you do today i literally had no idea so i guess
yeah if you have any of those kind of questions comment them below or in any of our other videos
um or messages on insta you know we'd love to discuss yeah we'll help you out because we didn't
we couldn't approach people like this when we were younger quite scary going on linkedin isn't it and
dropping them a message definitely so absolutely comment and we'll try and get back to you all yeah
also i guess we're constantly learning ourselves like they've said we're still
you know in college in uni um for our jobs so you know we're learning a lot on the way and
these are like our first proper proper jobs too so we'll have lots of tips to
share with you yeah we're still newbies in our roles so we are learning on the job and
at university so i'm sure that we'll have loads more experiences to share actually
yeah and to document as well for us a little keepsake haha a little keepsake
and i guess that leads us nicely too leads us on nicely to um our next point as well that we just
wanted something fun to do together we do we've been locked up for well over a year now as you
all know there's been a pandemic so we just want to have some fun we wanted to start a new project
spend some more time together and today actually the lockdown restrictions have lifted yeah
and so inside together we are allowed to hug finally we have been waiting so long for this
we've had you know the ipad all the drawings and everything ready for this day yeah today's
action day absolutely so seeing as we're allowed inside together we were like let's do it let's
try it out we both finished work and then i like drove over here straight away ready to film yes
so the final question is what can you expect from us yes becca take it away i mean in this first
week i'm not gonna lie it's gonna be a bit crazy it will yeah we're getting used to it aren't we
yeah but more so because we've got five videos coming i mean that's the plan anyway so that's
our aim we shall see yeah and what sort of things are we covering in those five videos oh let me
tell you it's a bit of everything um so we wanted our first week to appeal to everyone basically so
we've got our two uni videos so obviously warwick and birmingham coming and then also
just some more general videos so like we've got one tomorrow which should apply to everyone so
make sure you're subscribed make sure you do it's just some top tips and things that we've
learned over the years yeah definitely and then we've got another one coming on sunday as well so
that makes up the five and then after that i guess you can expect them every one one or two week yeah
i'm sorry guys we can't be doing five a week we're gonna calm it down oh my gosh so yeah
perhaps two a week or maybe one on busy weeks but we'll try, we'll try and be consistent YouTubers
absolutely and also we'll be posting all the time on our instagram as well @beccaandsoph and
so make sure you follow yeah do follow because then you can get notifications and you can see
posts about when we're about to go on youtube and post a brand new video yeah absolutely and also
on there we'll be posting complementary stuff to our videos very true so for example in our
one tomorrow we've got um i guess like a format or a structure for what the video is discussing and
that will be posted on our instagram so yeah definitely we do check that out check it out
so our videos will cover a range of things as we've explained we'll talk about our university
experiences also we'll take you back to school and college we'll talk about that a bit and we'll also
discuss why law why accounting yeah what we do in our day-to-day professions now and what we're
hoping to do in the future yeah absolutely we've got loads to share also just generally careers
chats revision chats that kind of thing i feel like a lot of people are at the same stage as
us that are hopefully going to watch these videos so yeah we just want to help you out basically and
have some fun yes so yeah so we hope you enjoy it but also find it informative that's the aim
thank you so much for watching this video thank you for making it this
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but yes thank you so much for watching and you can expect lots of videos from as soon
new video coming tomorrow so watch out for it thank you everyone bye