Work Experience – A year 10 student’s account
Manaal is a year 10 student that recently completed her work experience here at Step. In this blog, she talks about how she views work experience and how her experience was. Work experience is significant because it helps you gain a lot of exposure in many fields of work which could help you pick future…
Manaal
Invested in Investment – Matt
Matthew is a final year Industrial Economics student at the University of Nottingham. Last year he completed a Property Investment Summer Internship with Tesco Pension Investment (TPI). We caught up with Matt to learn of his experience and the lessons he learned. A role in investment had always been in Matt’s sights. Following a background…
Matt
Where are they now? – Emma, Digital Experience Manager at Hillarys Blinds
Emma is a Digital Experience Manager at Hillarys Blinds in Nottingham, where she has worked for the past 12 years. Emma graduated from the University of Lincoln in 2007 with a degree in Psychology and Marketing. During her studies, she completed a Step internship with Broadcast Media Service. Emma wanted to get into marketing, but…
Emma
Where are they now – Amna, Associate at PwC
Amna is an associate with PwC – in 2015 she completed an internship with Manchester City Council. Amna has recently graduated with a master’s in International Relations and also completed a bachelor’s in Business and Economics. We recently caught up with Amna to reflect on her internship experience and how that might have influenced her…
Amna
What an Intern can do for your business
At Step, we are often asked by businesses where we feel students and graduates can add value and help them. There is sometimes a misapprehension that they will require constant supervision, and will not contribute significantly in return. However, many of our students and graduates have completed valuable and substantial projects through 8-12 week internships;…
Immigration Law in London – Sophie
Sophie is a 2018 European Law graduate from the University of Exeter. She has recently joined an immigration practice in Bromley as a Graduate Immigration Support Assistant. The early stages of Sophie’s search for graduate employment consisted of sifting through any and all available opportunities. Her focus then shifted toward assistant roles, and with the…
Sophie
House of Commons BAME Programme – Axell
Axell is a 2017 International Relations graduate from the University of Portsmouth. He completed the House of Commons BAME internship programme in 2018. In 2017 I was awarded a Master’s degree in International Relations by the University of Portsmouth, after which I secured an internship at the House of Commons, having come through the BAME…
Axell Kaubo
My Internship Experience at Step – Alisha
Alisha is a recent Business management graduate from the University of Derby who completed an internship here at Step. In this blog, she talks about her experience at Step. I learned about the opportunity for an internship at Step through my university Job board and it was what I was looking for, experience in recruitment.…
Alisha
Exceptional Event Management! – Steph
Steph is a recent Chemistry with Biomedicine graduate from King’s College London. She has recently completed an events management internship with PESGB – The Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain. She has since been taken on permanently as an Events Officer. I approached this internship from a completely different background than most people working in events; with…
Steph
Step and Social Mobility
Set up in the late 1980s by Shell, the original Step programme existed to provide paid summer placements for STEM students in smaller businesses. Originally supported by government and granted both business funding and skills-based funding, a network of partners (including universities and business links) administered the programme. Students applied to be a part of…
