Lamise, Maximus and Liam all had a mentor and paid internship with our partners, SSE. Watch the video to hear about their experience.
Lamise and Liam are students at All Saints RC Secondary School, while fellow intern Liam is from Rosshall Academy.
“My mentor has introduced me to a lot of the people in the company,” says Lamise, “I’ve definitely managed to grow my network.”
“I’ve learned how to communicate with people properly, how to network, and write professional emails as well,” Maximus adds.
“I’ve been interviewing engineers in different disciplines, and learning about how they feed into projects,” says Liam.
Watch the video to hear more:
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Video transcript:
Lamise: The experience as a whole, going into the office every day, getting used to having a 9-5, and meeting all the other mentees as well. It took some ice-breaking, but we got there eventually.
Liam: I’ve been interviewing engineers in different disciplines, and learning more about how different engineers feed into overall projects, and how many different departments there actually is within SSE.
Maximus: I learned how to communicate with people properly, learned how to network, and like write professional emails as well.
Lamise: I’m in the transmissions department, they talk about the work they’ve done, you learn quite a lot just through a meeting.
Maximus: I really enjoyed the trips we went on. In parliament, we went and seen a debate, and then we went into a Member of the Scottish Parliament’s office, and we were just kind of seeing what he was doing, his day-to-day.
Liam: My mentor’s called Ruchita, and she works as a Project Manager. We just get on really well.
Lamise: He’s also introduced me to a lot of the people in the company, I’ve definitely managed to, like, grow my network. I’ve met a lot, a lot of people.
Maximus: I didn’t really know what I want to do when I’m older, and this is really getting it clearer.
Liam: Just do it. It’ll benefit you more than anything to like have people in the working world that you can connect to.
Maximus: I would say it’s a great opportunity. Definitely something you should get into.
