{"id":166,"date":"2024-02-22T13:40:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T13:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=166"},"modified":"2024-02-22T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T13:40:33","slug":"i-felt-very-confident-following-the-support-especially-going-into-my-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/2024\/02\/22\/i-felt-very-confident-following-the-support-especially-going-into-my-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI felt very confident following the support, especially going into my interview&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Pearl Okungbowa graduated from The University of Kent in 2022 and has secured a role as a medical writer with Ashfield Medical Communications. <\/p>\n<p>Pearl was connected with the SafetyNet+ Scheme by the Careers and Employability Service.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-167 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/files\/2024\/02\/Pearl-Okungbowa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Status:<\/strong> Pearl was not currently working or studying when she joined our career coaching<br \/>\nsupport. Pearl sough support to help her secure her dream graduate role as a medical writer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support Provided:<\/strong> Support was initially provided for a CV review with an experienced career coach.<br \/>\nGuidance was also given about where to search for roles and how to make speculative applications.<br \/>\nAs Pearl was already progressing to the latter stages of the recruitment process, coaching focused on<br \/>\npreparing for assessment centres and interviews to build Pearl\u2019s confidence to secure the role.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Pearl Found Most Valuable:<\/strong> \u201cThe coaching felt catered to you and the flexibility of the timings<br \/>\nwas appreciated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Support Helped Pearl with her Confidence:<\/strong> \u201cI felt very confident following the support,<br \/>\nespecially going into my interview having received detail feedback and assurance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Pearl Said About the Support:<\/strong> \u201cMy Gradcore coach was great support. It was a great incentive<br \/>\nfor the University of Kent to offer this extra service on top of their own services. This really went the<br \/>\nextra mile\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pearl Okungbowa graduated from The University of Kent in 2022 and has secured a role as a medical writer with Ashfield Medical Communications. Pearl was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/2024\/02\/22\/i-felt-very-confident-following-the-support-especially-going-into-my-interview\/\">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\/166"}],"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=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}