{"id":2760,"date":"2021-02-12T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2022-03-15T15:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:44:48","slug":"computing-student-simona-paraskevopoulou-to-take-part-in-stem-women-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2021\/02\/12\/computing-student-simona-paraskevopoulou-to-take-part-in-stem-women-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Computing student Simona Paraskevopoulou to take part in STEM Women event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/2021\/4399\/artificial-intelligence\">BSc Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)<\/a> student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/simonaprs\/\">Simona Paraskevopoulou<\/a>, currently undertaking her Industry Placement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jefferies.com\/\">Jefferies<\/a>, will represent the company at a networking session for <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stemwomen.co.uk\/events\">STEM Women<\/a>&#8216;s <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/stemwomenevents.com\/event\/4521\">UK Graduate Careers event<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>Since starting her studies at Kent, Simona has undertaken a variety at internships, starting with a week-long Technology Spring Internship at Morgan Stanley during her first year. That summer, Simona also completed a 12-week summer internship at Jefferies, during which she spent the first 6 weeks within the Infrastructure division, and the second 6 weeks working with the Information Security Department.<\/p>\n<p>During her second year of her studies, Simona worked with Information Security as an Off-Cycle part-time intern for a year, balancing her studies with going to the company&#8217;s London office twice a week.<\/p>\n<p>This academic year, Simona started her Industrial Placement with Jefferies, and spent the first months with Information Security. In January, Simona joined the Fixed Income IT team, and in a few months will move to the Equity IT team. Simona says: &#8216;I&#8217;m working in these different departments so that I can get experience across multiple technology divisions for my year-long placement, and the firm and I can evaluate where I perform best&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have been asked to support our firm\u2019s networking session, and intend to provide my experience working for Jefferies so that prospective applicants can learn more. I will also share my insight into being a woman in Technology\/Finance. The aim of our participation in this event is to increase our brand awareness and share opportunities available for the attendants&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about the Stem Women UK Graduate Careers event can be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stemwomenevents.com\/event\/4521\">https:\/\/stemwomenevents.com\/event\/4521<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BSc Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) student Simona Paraskevopoulou, currently undertaking her Industry Placement with Jefferies, will represent the company at a networking session for STEM &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2021\/02\/12\/computing-student-simona-paraskevopoulou-to-take-part-in-stem-women-event\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":2762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,178057,37392],"tags":[244608],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2765,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}