When I graduated from Teesside University in 2019 from my (BA) Business Management degree, I was certain that there was no way I would return to study. I did enjoy studying, but after three years of university I was ready for the world of work and to put my degree to good use… or so I thought.<\/p>\n
Why did I study a postgraduate degree?<\/strong><\/p>\n Once graduated, I got straight into the world of work. I landed a graduate role in marketing at a local logistics company in Middlesbrough and I enjoyed it, however, I wasn\u2019t excited by the industry itself. I moved to another company working in luxury interior design just before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. I was then put on furlough as many industries were not operating.<\/p>\n Throughout this time, I had time to think of exactly what I wanted to do with my future. I knew I had a passion for digital marketing and thought doing a master\u2019s degree in it would complement my undergraduate degree, proving to myself and future employers that I was focused on working within a marketing role.<\/p>\n I applied to MSc Digital Marketing in September 2020 after weighing up the pros and cons of going back to study, last minute, I know! I got accepted and I was thrilled. My employer was happy to be flexible around my studies, allowing me to work full-time and study. Funnily enough, if Covid-19 didn\u2019t happen, I don\u2019t think I would have done my master\u2019s degree, so I suppose a few good things happened during a very challenging time.<\/p>\n Despite most of the teaching being online, I met some amazing people, including lecturers, who I am still in contact with now three years on.<\/p>\n What now?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n My master\u2019s degree opened a vast number of opportunities for me. I started a marketing and content role in B2B business managing my own apprentice, and then moved on to an e-commerce brand. I left there recently and decided to join Teesside University\u2019s marketing team \u2013 which I absolutely love!<\/p>\n I felt more confident applying for jobs since I had my digital marketing master\u2019s, proving to employers that I not only understand business management but could confidently say I am also an expert in digital marketing. My advice would always be to go for it, whatever that may be, investing in yourself is always a good decision.<\/p>\n By Talene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I graduated from Teesside University in 2019 from my (BA) Business Management degree, I was certain that there was no way I would return to study. I did enjoy studying, but after three years of university I was ready […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23134,"featured_media":1013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/files\/2023\/07\/image00001.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}