{"id":169,"date":"2024-02-22T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=169"},"modified":"2024-02-22T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:00:09","slug":"im-very-grateful-we-were-provided-with-11-career-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/2024\/02\/22\/im-very-grateful-we-were-provided-with-11-career-mentor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I\u2019m very grateful we were provided with 1:1 career mentor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Ruth Odugbesi graduated from The University of Kent in 2022 and is now a Junior Data Governance Analyst at Penguin Random House.  <\/p>\n<p>Ruth was connected with the SafetyNet+ scheme by The Careers and Employability Service.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-170 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/files\/2024\/02\/Ruth-Odugbesi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"348\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Status:<\/strong> At the start of support Ruth was working, but in a role she did not feel was graduate<br \/>\nlevel. Ruth had begun to submit applications for her ideal role in data governance but only felt<br \/>\nsomewhat confident in achieving this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support Provided:<\/strong> Ruth received tailored support from her career coach who focused on interview<br \/>\npreparation and advice pertaining to looking for a graduate position.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Ruth Found Most Valuable:<\/strong> Ruth found that having a 1:1 career coach was valuable to her<br \/>\ndevelopment \u2013 she praised her coach for providing industry-specific interview questions that they<br \/>\nwould work together on in an interview-simulation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Support Helped Ruth with her Confidence:<\/strong> The support provided to Ruth made her very<br \/>\nconfident in approaching the job market as a candidate and believes that the support allowed her to<br \/>\ngrow and develop massively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Ruth Said About the Support:<\/strong> \u201cMy coach built my confidence! She helped me so much with<br \/>\ninterview preparation and gave me genuine feedback that helped me better myself as a candidate.<br \/>\nI\u2019m very thankful for her\u2026 I\u2019m very grateful we were provided with 1:1 career mentor\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Odugbesi graduated from The University of Kent in 2022 and is now a Junior Data Governance Analyst at Penguin Random House. Ruth was connected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/2024\/02\/22\/im-very-grateful-we-were-provided-with-11-career-mentor\/\">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\/169"}],"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=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}