My placement was at AstraZeneca where I worked as a clinical study administrator. This helped me to develop my soft skills including interpersonal communication, leadership and collaboration skills. These are all essential for any career and helped me to secure my current graduate role.
Additionally, I’ve found having professional experience to be highly valuable when applying to graduate schemes. I had no official extra training or work experience, however I did do a couple of LinkedIn courses to help develop my coding and Excel proficiency.
In my own time, I used YouTube and Loughborough’s library resources to gain insight into economics. Doing these extra tasks helped to both show interest into the field of work as well as helped me to excel during the different application stages.