I represent the university as a student ambassador, where I interact with prospective students who are considering picking the university as their firm choice. This includes taking students and their families on tours of the campus while explaining the roles of the different rooms and buildings, answering a range of questions in regards to my own personal experience, maintaining an acceptable level of cleanliness to provide good first impressions and setting up activities to improve people’s experience at the university. I believe this shows a good level of intuition to guide others through something I am knowledgeable in, a good level of cleanliness to maintain high standards and a general good level of interaction with others around me.

Working in the fast food environment of Subway taught me some valuable lessons. It not only taught me how to work with food in a safe manner, gaining me the Food Safety Level 2 certification, but also taught me how to maintain basic legal documentation to ensure food standards were met, how to work as a member of a team and sometimes alone to serve customers, how to interact with customers who are dissatisfied in order to reach an amicable resolution and even cash handling and the paperwork behind this. During my time, I also found myself in the position to assist new workers and teach them the ropes of the job. Of course, a major part of the job was maintaining high workplace cleanliness to reduce the risk of cross contamination while also serving customers custom orders and using major delivery platforms (including Just Eat, Uber Eats and Deliveroo) to make food for deliveries. I also found myself doing stock counts and handling general deliveries to restock the shop and ensure we were not down on stock. I believe this is evidence of my willingness to learn new skills which I can then teach to others and to maintain an effective working environment.