{"id":2618,"date":"2019-09-06T15:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2019-09-06T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:09:40","slug":"southeastern-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/2019\/09\/06\/southeastern-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Southeastern: Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018-19, Southeastern Railway provided EP students with a range of paid internship opportunities, exclusively through the Employability Points Scheme<\/p>\n<p>Through the EP Scheme, Aderayo Ariyo (School of Psychology) undertook an internship, which focused on reviewing managerial strategies and approaches. During her 12-week reward, she undertook the following tasks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shadowing a station manager, area manager and team leader.<\/li>\n<li>Highlighting ineffective tasks and providing solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Implementing time management tips.<\/li>\n<li>Assist in interviews and attended meetings\/ hearings.<\/li>\n<li>Run a team-building segment.<\/li>\n<li>Assisted in risk assessments, ticket office and station inspections.<\/li>\n<li>Designed questionnaires to gather data.<\/li>\n<li>Note taker.<\/li>\n<li>Produce a report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reflecting on her experience with Southeastern, Aderyao commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe internship was eye-opening due to the internal exposure I received about the railway. It made me think about career options in areas I never considered before. I really enjoyed meeting new people and gaining extra knowledge and terminology about trains\u2026 The internship is one of my achievements that I am most proud of. During the 3 months, I was able to develop multiple new skills and refine my ability to work on a team and speaking publicly. These new skills are going to be extremely useful for my future employers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aderyao also stated the following advice to any student considering getting involved with the EP Scheme:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think that students who are considering applying for the scheme definitely should get involved. The internship has been life changing and EP provided me with a gateway to develop my skill set and CV. EP is also a good way to get recognition for volunteering as to qualify for a reward one has to get 200 points, and this is good for future employers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018-19, Southeastern Railway provided EP students with a range of paid internship opportunities, exclusively through the Employability Points Scheme Through the EP Scheme, Aderayo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/2019\/09\/06\/southeastern-internship\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44118,"featured_media":2620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[175892],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2619,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/2619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/employabilitypoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}