{"id":380,"date":"2015-01-07T13:54:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T13:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/?p=380"},"modified":"2015-12-16T11:41:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T11:41:02","slug":"why-you-should-work-with-sustainability-action-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/2015\/01\/07\/why-you-should-work-with-sustainability-action-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should work with Sustainability Action this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are currently recruiting for a 12-week paid summer internship. If you are a current Southampton student read on about why you should take the time to apply for the post.<\/p>\n

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  1. You\u2019ll earn the Living Wage. Not only do we think it\u2019s important that internships are paid, we ensure that our interns are paid the Living Wage<\/a>\u00a0(\u00a37.85 per hour) \u2013 a wage that meets the actual living costs of life in the UK.<\/li>\n
  2. You\u2019ll gain invaluable experience for your CV. Caught in that catch-22 of needing experience to get a job, but needing a job to gain the experience? Summer internships are a way to gain practical experience that will make your CV stand out.<\/li>\n
  3. You\u2019ll develop your transferable skills. Being part of the Sustainability Action team will enable you to enhance your team-working, problem-solving and communications skills, as well as providing space to develop your own ideas and initiative.<\/li>\n
  4. You\u2019ll have the chance to network. Joining the Sustainability Action team will give you the opportunity to meet staff from across the University and the Union. Further job opportunities may arise from these meetings.<\/li>\n
  5. You will feel justifiably satisfied from having had a positive impact in the lives of fellow students as well as in the university and wider community.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    SUSU Sabbs pledging for sustainability<\/p><\/div>\n

    Previous interns have trained SUSU Sabbatical Officers<\/a> in sustainability and its relevance to their work, taken a lead role in creating the Sustainability Action Website<\/a>, engaged hundreds\u00a0of Freshers<\/a>\u00a0with sustainability, co-delivered a workshop to local business on good sustainability practice\u2026 and these are just the brief highlights. Read\u00a0about their internships\u00a0in their own words here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    By applying for the internship, you will be able to make a tangible impact in the lives of students and on the university as a whole.<\/p>\n

    Don\u2019t miss out \u2013 apply here<\/a> by the 25th<\/sup> January 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We are currently recruiting for a 12-week paid summer internship. If you are a current Southampton student read on about why you should take the time to apply for the post. You\u2019ll earn the Living Wage. Not only do we think it\u2019s important that internships are paid, we ensure that our interns are paid the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[431146],"tags":[122602,129910,496232],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-experience","tag-employability","tag-internship","tag-make-a-difference"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}