{"id":522,"date":"2021-09-09T09:53:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T08:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=522"},"modified":"2022-11-07T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T10:50:30","slug":"darren-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/09\/09\/darren-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2><strong><em>&#8220;There is little success where there is little laughter.&#8221; Andrew Carnegie<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I am currently a Director for a Mechanical and Electrical Installation company within the construction industry. I have worked my way up form a trainee onsite carrying out works through to a supervisor role, contracts manager and now a director. I enjoy learning and challenging myself within my business.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work and study I enjoy scuba diving and paddle boarding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Securing the largest order to date for the company and completing the job within budget and on time<\/li>\n<li>Being made Director and being given the opportunity to influence the business<\/li>\n<li>Leading a great team of managers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to the Kent MBA programme and why? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A great recommendation from someone already on the course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What were your motivations for undertaking an MBA?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To improve my business knowledge and understanding, help my company grow and also for my personal growth as I enjoy learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Within the next five years I want to take over as MD within my company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Work hard and have a good positive attitude towards learning, never think you know it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is little success where there is little laughter.&#8221; Andrew Carnegie I am currently a Director for a Mechanical and Electrical Installation company within the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/09\/09\/darren-evans\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74554,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[244706],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"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\/74554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}