{"id":483,"date":"2024-10-10T10:51:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T09:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=483"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:01:12","slug":"nicks-unexpected-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2024\/10\/10\/nicks-unexpected-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick&#8217;s Unexpected Celebration!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-486 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/files\/2025\/09\/Student-Testimonial-Tile.png\" alt=\"Tile stating: Student Testimonial\" width=\"488\" height=\"359\" \/>Initially, I didn\u2019t think that the University of Kent <a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/careers\">Careers &amp; Employability Service<\/a> would be able to help me as I already have a good job within my organisation and thought that the degree would aid my progression when I completed my degree. How wrong was I?<\/h4>\n<h4>I secured a second interview for a job that I thought I might be able to get in 10 years! Having attended a seminar with the careers service on our Year 2 Welcome back day, I thought I would reach out to them to see what support they could provide. I was blown away with how friendly and supportive Susannah was. She greatly helped me understand and overcome my imposter syndrome, lessons of which I am still employing after the recruitment process came to an end. Susannah was also fantastic at giving relevant advice to the part of the recruitment process that I was at and left me feeling significantly more confident about my next interview.<\/h4>\n<h4>I was having my lunch, surrounded by my course mates when the call came in to tell me that I successfully got the job! As soon as the call ended, all my course mates cheered and screamed, delivering one of the most wholesome experiences of my life. I am incredibly grateful to Susannah for the incredible support that she provided and will keep her wise words about imposter syndrome with me for many years to come.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><em><strong>\u00a0&#8211; Nick Thompson-Warner is studying Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship at Kent Business School. He has just started his second year of study.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initially, I didn\u2019t think that the University of Kent Careers &amp; Employability Service would be able to help me as I already have a good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2024\/10\/10\/nicks-unexpected-celebration\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78384,"featured_media":485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,223276,309363,202865],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}