Michelle was employed through the university and mentored in her role by Peter Reid, Senior Lecturer in Product Design.\u00a0\u00a0 Her job was to develop a New Product Development Strategy.\u00a0\u00a0 No small task!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michelle has since gone on to be employed by Nifco in a variety of roles from project engineer where she was responsible for key accounts with Ford and Jaguar\/Land Rover to her current position as Marketing Manager with responsibility for Branding, internal and external communications.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n One of many great examples of how Michelle has gone the extra mile is when she organised a teambuilding and charity event for Nifco staff to climb England\u2019s highest mountain, Scarfell Pike in the Lake District.\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.gazettelive.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/stockton-workers-peak-performance-tsunami-3675240<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n But now Michelle is about to go a few miles further… Ford have offered her a new role in Essex!<\/span><\/p>\n And the secret of Michelle\u2019s success, in a nutshell… “always going that extra mile” and exceeding your boss\u2019s expectations.\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s what quickly builds respect and builds your career.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The world of work is a difficult place for a young graduate to navigate. How do you get noticed?, get taken seriously?, get things done? Everything and everyone is new! Well, product design graduate Michelle Blackett had some of the answers to those thorny questions when she gave an inspirational talk to our students last … Continue reading ““Going the Extra Mile””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,6,39,29],"tags":[3,42,8,7],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fi1x-7w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"20141107_135442\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2014\/11\/20141107_135442.jpg\")
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