A blog by Tom Light, focusing on apprenticeships and degree apprenticeships at Microsoft and his experience in Microsoft’s Early in Career community. I owe a lot to the Microsoft apprenticeships and degree apprenticeships programme.
Name: Umang Vadher University: University of Exeter Role: Technical Account Manager (TAM) intern in Financial Services and Insurance As a Technical Account Manager (TAM), I serve as the first point of contact between Microsoft and Premier customers—those that have a technology support contract with Microsoft Services.
Name: Holly Manley University: Aston University – Biomedical Engineering Role: Cloud Solution Architect Intern Description of Role: I sit within the Customer Success Unit which is part of post-sales. We get involved with customers after they have been sold a product.
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At Microsoft, our apprenticeship programme sits beautifully alongside our core vision of empowering every person on the planet to achieve more. Apprenticeships can empower people to grow and develop new skills. This gives them opportunity to start career paths that perhaps wouldn’t have been open to them before.
As a Learning Technologist, I work closely with our Faculty of Health and Wellbeing as digital learning lead, to effectively embed technology into learning and teaching practice. I am passionate about my work and find the collaboration between academic colleagues and technologists to be particularly rewarding.
I am yet to meet a teacher that doesn’t like a short cut, or, to put it better, reduced workload! Modern teaching is just so busy, and I find nothing more satisfying than finding a method that allows me to be more efficient in my work.
On Wednesday the 28th of April 2018, the Scottish Government issued its first ever RED weather warning leaving many authorities across the country with no option but to close their schools. Now, I am certain many primary aged children were filled with joy, I know my own children were!