The EP Team caught up with Clayton Jones, People Director, to find out about his experience with EP and their intern, Momodou Bah.
FX Digital has been supporting the Employability Points Scheme for a couple of years, providing valuable rewards for our students. This year they were also able to receive some funding generously provided by Santander Universities, which aided the company’s commitment to providing paid internships.
“FX Digital has a proud history of offering paid internships and we have found this experience to be incredibly beneficial for both our business and the career development of the intern that spends their placement with us.”
The company was founded in 2011 and focussed on small website builds, this grew to the present day to become a company of fifty who work with a multitude of global brands from various industries. FX Digital boast projects across a variety of emerging technologies, with a focus on Connected TV and OTT streaming app development.
This EP internship focussed on web development, Clayton had this to say about Momodou:
“Momodou has been a fantastic addition to the FX Digital team, not just professionally but culturally too. He has worked on some impressive research and development projects that we may not have had the resource for otherwise, including the visualisation of data and various challenging training programmes.”
Clayton was particularly impressed with Momodou’s proactive and positive attitude, his willingness to learn and desire to grow his career for the future.
As a relatively small business, FX Digital appreciated the Santander Universities funding:
“The funding from Santander makes a stronger business case for taking on interns. The process of onboarding and managing interns involves cost and particularly when we were a smaller business, this funding made offering placements more affordable.”
“We would absolutely encourage any business to take advantage of the great talent that is on offer through EP, particularly smaller businesses who may fear they do not have the structure or resources in place to do this effectively.”
More about FX Digital can be found here.
The EP Team would also like to thank Santander Universities for their support of the EP Scheme.