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Appendix 1Economy Committee - 20 March 2014Transcript of Item 5: Internships in LondonStephen Knight AM (Chair): Can I again welcome our panel? We hav Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcriptve four interns, or former interns, who have come to join US. We have Adam Driscoll, Vishika Patel, Sandeep Dhillon and Rebecca Page. Welcome, and thank you very much indeed for coming along and agreeing to give US the benefit of your experiences of being interns in London.This inquiry is looking at Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript the whole nature of internships. I think it is an area that, in a sense, not much work has been done on. Very little real evidence has been gatheredMinutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript
on the way in which internships are being used in London and elsewhere in the UK for that matter.As Chair, I wonder if I could start off inviting our Appendix 1Economy Committee - 20 March 2014Transcript of Item 5: Internships in LondonStephen Knight AM (Chair): Can I again welcome our panel? We hav Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript. Could you also tell US a little bit about what you have done on your internship, the organisation you have interned for and what you have got out of it. Adam, can I start with you?Adam Driscoll (former intern in sports science industry): Yes, I studied Strength and Conditioning Science, which is a Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript subdivision of Sports Science, at St Mary's University College, Twickenham. I graduated in July 2012 and immediately started looking for work or inteMinutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript
rnships. I had done one part-time during my final year at London Welsh Rugby Club, and subsequently I did a two-week internship at Imperial College, LAppendix 1Economy Committee - 20 March 2014Transcript of Item 5: Internships in LondonStephen Knight AM (Chair): Can I again welcome our panel? We hav Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcriptsitive of all and has led me to leaving the sports science industry completely.Stephen Knight AM (Chair): Thank you. We will come back to some more detail on that in a minute. Vishika?Vishika Patel (intern at ASOS): I did a degree at Nottingham, Trent, in fashion management. My degree was a four yea Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcriptr degree where they strongly believe that during the third year you should do an internship or a placement in the industry. I luckily got an internshiMinutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript
p with ASOS and then, after my internship and graduating, they offered me a job at the end of my degree and I am now currently working there. During mAppendix 1Economy Committee - 20 March 2014Transcript of Item 5: Internships in LondonStephen Knight AM (Chair): Can I again welcome our panel? We hav Minutes - Appendix 1 - TranscriptBAs would have got. I gained a lot of experience about the industry and a lot of knowledge about it as well.Sandeep Dhillon (former intern at TfL press office): I studied English literature at Loughborough University in 2008. I graduated and I went on to do a postgraduate degree in Marketing and Man Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcriptagement at Loughborough again.I finished there in September 2009 and then I was looking for work. I waslooking to get into the PR (public relations) oMinutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript
r the marketing industry and I came across an internship for black and minority ethnics (BAME) at the Transport for London (TfL) press office. I appliAppendix 1Economy Committee - 20 March 2014Transcript of Item 5: Internships in LondonStephen Knight AM (Chair): Can I again welcome our panel? We hav Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcriptthe workings of a very busy press office.I was given my own campaign to run during my time there and I assisted in helping out with a variety of different campaigns while I was there.Stephen Knight AM (Chair): Was that your first internship?Sandeep Dhillon (former intern at TfL press office): Yes, t Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcripthat was the first one. Prior to that, when I was still at university, I did a six or eight week internship for Man Investments. That was in business cMinutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript
ontinuity, but that was more about just trying to get an experience of working in an office-based environment. There were a couple of areas I was lookAppendix 1Economy Committee - 20 March 2014Transcript of Item 5: Internships in LondonStephen Knight AM (Chair): Can I again welcome our panel? We hav Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcriptnished my Masters in Environmental Science and Management in September 2012. At the time I could not afford to do an unpaid internship so I was looking for paid internships and was unsuccessful. I ended up getting a part-time job for nine months in retail. I saved up and then I did a three month int Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcripternship for a charity which was unpaid. Then I did three months in Team London here, in marketing and communications, and now I am in my third internsMinutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript
hip for the Environment Unit in Research and Analysis.Gareth Bacon AM: Why did you choose to take up an internship and how did you find it? One of theAppendix 1Economy Committee - 20 March 2014Transcript of Item 5: Internships in LondonStephen Knight AM (Chair): Can I again welcome our panel? We hav Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript: There were a variety of websites I looked on, primarily the UK Sport and the United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association’s (UKSCA) website. At the time there were lots of internships on both those websites and occasionally I would also be made aware of them by my former lecturers. I chose Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript to do internship because it is such a competitive industry in sports science, there are so many people trying to get into the industry at the moment,Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript
experience is what sets you apart. Once you have qualifications on paper it is really the experience that sets you apart, and that is the one thing tAppendix 1Economy Committee - 20 March 2014Transcript of Item 5: Internships in LondonStephen Knight AM (Chair): Can I again welcome our panel? We hav Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcripttern in sports science industry): Yes.Gareth Bacon AM: I am going to come back to you in a minute because I am intrigued as to why you found Brentford so awful, but we will come back to that. Vishika?Vishika Patel (intern at ASOS): Through my university I had a lot of support for internships and pla Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcriptcements. As a university they did fairs where ASOS had a stall and you could go and talk to the companies and ask more about those internships and plaMinutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript
cements. Then for my core specifically, ASOS came in and did a talk about the internships available and the different types that we could apply for anAppendix 1Economy Committee - 20 March 2014Transcript of Item 5: Internships in LondonStephen Knight AM (Chair): Can I again welcome our panel? We hav Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcriptbecause you could go into something and not know if it is right for you or not. and because it is really competitive it is all about the type of experience you have.Gareth Bacon AM: For you it was a bridge between studying and working, but it was also the opportunity for you to find out more about t Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcripthe industry you were going to hopefully go to work in, before taking the plunge?Vishika Patel (intern at ASOS): Yes. It really helped with your fourthMinutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript
year. Obviously at university it is a lot of books and studying in that sense but your placement year puts everything into perspective of how the indAppendix 1Economy Committee - 20 March 2014Transcript of Item 5: Internships in LondonStephen Knight AM (Chair): Can I again welcome our panel? We hav Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcriptith my degree as well. It made me realise that is what I wanted to do as a career.Gareth Bacon AM: A positive experience from your perspective?Vishika Patel (intern at ASOS): Yes.Sandeep Dhillon (former Intern at TfL press office): For me, my internship at TfL, I was not looking for an internship at Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript the time. I had just graduated so I was looking for fulltime employment. That was back in 2009 and it was quite hard to get work. I saw an internshipMinutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript
as a stepping stone to get some experience so that, when I would go to apply for jobs after the internship, I would have more experiences to talk aboAppendix 1Economy Committee - 20 March 2014Transcript of Item 5: Internships in LondonStephen Knight AM (Chair): Can I again welcome our panel? We hav Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcriptob. You were at TfL nine months I think you said. What are you doing now?Sandeep Dhillon (former intern at TfL press office): I am still at TfL now.Gareth Bacon AM: You are still atTfL, working permanently?Sandeep Dhillon (former intern at TfL press office): Yes, when I came to the end of my interns Minutes - Appendix 1 - Transcripthip there were a couple of full-time vacancies that came up in the press office that I was encouraged to apply for. I went through the fullrecruitmentMinutes - Appendix 1 - Transcript
process and was fortunate enough to become a full-time member of staff.Gareth Bacon AM: OK, so similar to Vishika then it paved the way forward for yAppendix 1Economy Committee - 20 March 2014Transcript of Item 5: Internships in LondonStephen Knight AM (Chair): Can I again welcome our panel? We havGọi ngay
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