Erin Kenneally

"The first personality type I matched with is communicator, I match with this as understanding my audiences and the importance of communicating information to all different people is both something important in my work and personal life. When running STEM events, I have to ensure I am catering to my audience at the correct academic level and really showing something that is going to captivate and benefit the students as much as possible. In my personal life, I always believe that communication is the key to a successful relationship. As a person, if I have a feeling or something on my mind, I always have to speak about it. However, I always take the other person's characteristics in to mind and make sure I am communicating with them in a way that they are comfortable.A lot of the close people around me would say I am trustworthy, reliable and proactive, this coincides with having the personality type of a Quality Controller. When running different events, my manager and team have to put their trust in me that I am going to achieve all of my objectives and rely on me to always perform to a high standard. Without this, our events and activities wouldn't be successful. In my personal life I am very proactive and focused, I ensure I go to the gym at least 4 times a week, actively find new recipes to improve my cooking and take care of my mental health and well-being. This is just the same as in my work, I am always looking at ways to improve the way I work, looking up to senior colleagues to learn from them, researching new ideas, taking part in training sessions and always striving to improve!The third personality trait I received was Trainer. In my personal life, I am always known to be organized and efficient, always on time and prepared for any holidays or activities we may be doing. This is massively important in my role, it is down to me to ensure volunteers have training, we have all the equipment needed, vendor's have been booked. The list goes on! Without me being organized and efficient, activities, events and meetings would all fall short, and it would not look good to my manager!"

"My job role is incredibly varied and splits into three main sections. It involves Communications, Colleague engagement and leading STEM & Academic Outreach Communications-I am involved with sending high level and low-level communications throughout two Pfizer sites. Low level can include sending newsletters and controlling the TV screens across site with updates for colleagues on events, sharing messages and information. A higher level could be if there is a data breach and colleagues need to shut down computers, weather warnings, protests on site or any danger that could involve colleagues. These higher-level alerts are sent to colleagues’ phones as this is the quickest method to reach them.Colleague engagement-Colleague engagement is a fun part of my job, it is about keeping a community within colleagues through running events and activities and fund raising for charities. Examples of what we have organized are a road show across site where colleagues down tool and go round the whole site engaging with colleagues and playing games, finished off with a BBQ and Ice-cream van, Pizza Parties, Macmillan bake sales and much more! These events are not only fun to plan and execute but also give you great satisfaction of bringing everyone together.STEM and Academic Outreach Lead-Working at the STEM and Academic outreach lead means I co-ordinate all STEM activities that Pfizer are involved in. This involves us working with students from primary school all the way to year 13 sixth form. With primary school students we go in to their school and run different primary demos such as making slime, making snow, hair raising, setting things on fire, and much more! This way the students learn Science through fun! With Secondary students we run fun activities but more age appropriate, this can include going through drug development processes, spending days in our labs running tests and doing investigations and really using it as a point to figure out if a STEM career is for you. Lastly, we have our Early Career programme, this mainly focuses on individual 1:1 work experience or our Work Experience programme whereby we host 20 students, and I lead the logistics for the week. We also attend career fairs, interview days and many other activities that help prepare students for working life."

"After school I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, I naturally felt I 'should' go to university, so I went to sixth form where I studied and achieved a Merit in Health and Social Care and a distinction in Double Sport Science. After I finished sixth form my gut feeling of thinking university wasn't the right route for me grew stronger, so I began a Business Administration Apprenticeship at Kent County Council. I was able to complete this apprenticeship early, meaning I could start a full-time job at the council. I progressed through the council and ensured I put myself forward for different tasks that weren't in my job description, this allowed me to network, gain confidence and experience. By collating all my experience working through the council, I then had what I needed to make a big jump in my career and start my position as STEM and Academic Outreach Lead at Pfizer! I was a contractor at Pfizer for a year, this meant I knew I had one year to do exactly what I did at the council to stay employed by Pfizer and secure a permeant job. So, worked on many different projects in many different areas to network, gain knowledge and experience and grew my confidence. Towards the end of my year contract, I applied for the job of Colleague and Community Engagement Assistant and was successful! By working hard and putting myself in positions to gain knowledge and experience, meant I had all the tools to get the job!"

"When I was young up until the age of 14 I used to swim and compete competitively, so I have always naturally had a love for sport and keeping fit. To keep fit now I regularly go to the gym and go running, it can often help me de-stress. When I was younger, I used to hate eating breakfast, but it is now my favourite meal of the day, so I often go on breakfast dates with my mum, gran and auntie on Sundays. But one of my most favourite things in life is to travel! Whether it is a quick trip to a different city or flying across the world, I absolutely love to go and visit different places and try different types of food. Luckily, I have friends, a partner and family who love to travel with me."

"There is no typical day in my job, one day I can be sat down replying to emails and tackling admin tasks, I can spend a morning organizing all of our communications that are due to go out, another day I can be in planning meetings where we are coming up with new ideas, or I can be at some kind of event! Again, the events could vary, I could be at a primary school making giant bubbles to go over students, I could be at a careers fair, or I could be running a Christmas market for colleagues! Working and being a part of so many different projects make me enjoy every day and keeps it fun and fresh."

"After my GCSEs I went to Sixth form to study Double Sport Science where I achieved a Double distinction and Health and Social care, where I achieved a Merit. My gut feeling of university not being the next step for me, led me to start an apprenticeship at Kent County Council. Here I achieved level 3 in business administration and level 1 in IT. This was then the steppingstone for me to reach higher and higher jobs throughout the council, going from a business apprentice to business administrator to business officer. After collecting all the experience I needed, I then was able to take the jump and start my career at Pfizer as a STEM and Academic Outreach lead and then progressed after a year to be a colleague and community engagement assistant and STEM lead. "