I started off going to university to study Psychology, driven by a fascinating in understanding people and how they behave.  Although I would love to say this was a smooth and great experience for me, that couldn't be further from the truth.  I loved the lectures and struggled when it came to the written assessments.  This led me to discovering half way through my degree that I was dyslexic.  Despite this challenge I found completing work experience in learning and development teams ignited a spark in me to help people learn and grow.  

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Through this I found a sense of purpose and with some networking I secured a role as an Organizational development coordinator at Civica. Through this opportunity I learnt about the apprenticeship levy which unlocked a whole world for me.  This enabled me to provide people an alternative pathway to university and educate them on how to be better professionals early on and achieve long term career success.  Although, this only lasted for 18 months until I found myself being made redundant.

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Determined to not give up on the path I had chosen, I got to work sharpening my CV and networking to discover other opportunities that were available.  That's when I secured my Early Careers and Temp Recruitment Manager role.  Thrown into another new industry still within the STEM space,  I had to learn a whole new culture of work.  To further add to the learning experience it also required me to relocate to Birmingham from London, the city I had always known as home.  So, I packed my life up and moved 100 miles away.  During my time at Tarmac, I managed the implementation of IR35 legislation from a recruitment perspective in an industry that has more contractors than permanent staff.  To enable me to thoroughly do this, I had to learn about the IR35 Tax system, something that I didn't realize I would pick up as quickly as I did.  Turns out, being able to understand complex theoretical ideas is a dyslexic strength; one of many I have learned about through my corporate career.

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No sooner than had I settled in and gotten the IR35 system implemented and recruited the first graduates, did the COVID-19 pandemic hit.  Six months later, I would find myself having lived back at home and redundant, again....

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Not one to ever be deterred or to quit and ever resilient, I headed back to the job search and landed my 6 month maternity cover at Sky.  I covered their Apprenticeship recruitment for their Technical apprenticeships.  Another industry, another working culture to learn and a heavy work load led to a lot of personal and professional development.  Six months flew past and next thing I knew I was offered a role at Google Managing their biggest apprenticeship program for 12 months as a Temp.

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When Google called, it was impossible to decline.  It felt like a dream to be completely honest, going to do something I loved at one of the biggest tech companies in the world on the back of a pandemic that changed the world.  The next year changed me fundamentally and showed me, that careers are flexible.  Having driven up the overall program satisfaction, the highest rate of post program employment and the beating the national average completion rate by 40% I was able to secure a 1 year extension to my contract.  This work continued, driving program maturity, expanding the quality of data we had and understanding both qualitative and quantitative data.