{"id":238,"date":"2018-10-10T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=238"},"modified":"2020-10-15T14:46:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T13:46:24","slug":"lakal-jayasekara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2018\/10\/10\/lakal-jayasekara\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakal Jayasekara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Sri Lanka<br \/>\nThe Kent MBA 2018<br \/>\n(Part-time)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cLearn from your mistakes and always look to improve yourself.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I joined GEA Refrigeration UK Ltd as a Graduate Sales Engineer in the product sales department and moved into the contracting business within GEA in 2014 as a Design Engineer. I was promoted to the role of Design Team Leader in 2017. Outside of work, I\u2019m a keen follower of Formula 1 and Moto GP. I also enjoy Go Karting with friends.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Making the career move from sales to design was one of the best decisions I\u2019ve made as it really has given me the opportunity to grow as a person.<\/li>\n<li>Being promoted to Design Team Leader gave me added responsibility within the company that I really enjoy.<\/li>\n<li>Over the last four years as Design Engineer\/Team Leader I have designed quite a few large contracts and the one that I\u2019m most proud of is the project I completed for a leading supermarket where I designed the largest freezer store in the UK.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Aspirations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I hope to develop my career in management to a senior level within the business.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Learn from your mistakes and always look to improve yourself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>To find out more and apply for the Kent MBA at Kent Business School, visit <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/postgraduate\/291\/kent-mba\">The Kent MBA<\/a><\/strong><strong> webpage.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka The Kent MBA 2018 (Part-time) \u201cLearn from your mistakes and always look to improve yourself.\u201d I joined GEA Refrigeration UK Ltd as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2018\/10\/10\/lakal-jayasekara\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[199953],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}