{"id":132,"date":"2024-02-22T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T10:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=132"},"modified":"2024-02-22T11:13:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T11:13:01","slug":"this-opportunity-provided-ample-support-during-my-job-hunt-and-was-highly-valuable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/2024\/02\/22\/this-opportunity-provided-ample-support-during-my-job-hunt-and-was-highly-valuable\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This opportunity provided ample support during my job hunt and was highly valuable\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Jaedyn Herdman-Grant Graduated from The University of Kent in 2022 and has secured a role as a content creator apprentice for MCM<\/p>\n<p>Jaedyn was connected with the <span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">SafetyNet+<\/span> Scheme by the Careers and Employability Service.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-133 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/files\/2024\/02\/Jaedyn-Herdman-Grant.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Status:<\/strong> Jaedyn had submitted applications and got through to the next recruitment stage on<br \/>\nat least one occasion when she joined our career coaching support. Jaedyn however was not<br \/>\nconfident at all and struggled with interviews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support Provided:<\/strong> Jaedyn\u2019s coach worked closely with her to prepare for upcoming interviews,<br \/>\nproviding interview guidance and reviewing interview preparation. Jaedyn had got to the final stage<br \/>\nof recruitment for a number of roles, one in her words for a \u201cfantastic\u201d company learning Marketing<br \/>\nand Content creation, her ideal role which she received an offer for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Jaedyn Found Most Valuable:<\/strong> \u201cLeaving university is incredibly daunting. You feel like you have<br \/>\nbeen thrown into the deep end with no life jacket. However, this opportunity provided ample<br \/>\nsupport during my job hunt and was highly valuable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Support Helped Jaedyn with her Confidence:<\/strong> Jaedyn shared that she now feels very<br \/>\nconfident, \u201cI used to struggle at interviews: I would stutter, become out of breath and trip over my<br \/>\nwords. I now breeze through them with no problem\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Jaedyn Said About the Support:<\/strong> My coach was fantastic!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaedyn Herdman-Grant Graduated from The University of Kent in 2022 and has secured a role as a content creator apprentice for MCM Jaedyn was connected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/2024\/02\/22\/this-opportunity-provided-ample-support-during-my-job-hunt-and-was-highly-valuable\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[149528],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}