{"id":614,"date":"2010-11-18T22:36:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T22:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2010-11-18T22:36:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T22:36:22","slug":"gregynog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Gregynog"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Last weekend I went to Gregynog Hall (the University of Wales conference centre) to help out with a weekend of activities to support 2nd year students getting ready to take a year in industry. I’ve not had much experience of this kind of event before – they didn’t do anything like it in Leeds – and it seemed to me to be an excellent idea. CV workshops, teamworking, Belbin workshops, mock interviews, talks about working in industry (from actual people from actual industry)… a dose of “real-world-corporate-IT” for those who may have only experienced academic life. It certainly wasn’t easy on the students. But then again, finding a job in this economic climate is not going to be easy for them either, and after the weekend, at least some of them will have a better understanding of what recruiters are looking for in CVs, interviews, and so on.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

I’m not going to go into depth about the cohort, and how they got on with the tasks (that’s been blogged elsewhere by David<\/a> and Welp<\/a>). I will say that the teamworking exercises I watched were handled very well, and the overall impression I took away was of people learning a lot in a fairly short time (the group of students I was with spent 24h at Gregynog). Just this afternoon Carolyn from Careers was running a drop in CV session as followup for people from the Gregynog weekend, and it looked as if they were keeping her busy. <\/p>\r\n\r\n

The hall itself is a strange and wonderful building, set in attractive landscaped grounds, which makes the whole experience slightly surreal. It turned into one of those lovely clear bright winter afternoons, and I managed to get out for a couple of short walks, which made the weekend even better.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend I went to Gregynog Hall (the University of Wales conference centre) to help out with a weekend of activities to support 2nd year students getting ready to take a year in industry. I’ve not had much experience of this kind of event before – they didn’t do anything like it in Leeds – and it seemed to me to be an excellent idea. CV workshops, teamworking, Belbin workshops, mock interviews, talks about working in industry (from actual people from actual industry)… a dose of “real-world-corporate-IT” for those who may have only experienced academic life. It certainly wasn’t easy on the students. But thenRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hannahdee.wales\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}