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Samantha Pearce

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MA Human Resource Management graduate talks about her best Greenwich memory and how the degree helped her.

How did the MA in Human Resource Management help you?

I think it's helped me to find the area that I was really interested in. I remember going in for my job interview, and they asked me about consultancy skills, and I just had a lecture on consultancy skills from Barry, and I could just talk to them very knowledgeably about that subject.

The Greenwich degree is linked to the CIPD, so that has helped me to go to different events and network, and it's a professional qualification so this can help me in the future.

What events did you attend?

I attended a CIPD student event, which was off campus. It was very interesting, because I got to meet students from all over London, also at similar points in their career to me, and I've got quite a lot of them on LinkedIn.

The other CIPD event was on campus and it was about wellbeing. I ended up doing some yoga, which was very interesting, and also a mindfulness session. 

What's your best memory of your time at Greenwich?

Probably after our HR strategy presentation. The HR strategy element was definitely my favourite, and again, there was a consultancy element to it. 

In a team, we did a mini project for a client – Northern Trust, and then we had to present all of our findings back to them. We'd spent so much time together creating this, and then the feeling of doing a successful presentation, feeding back to the client, and them giving us really great feedback, was really, I think, my best memory.

Tell us a little bit about your current role.

I'm an HR Consultant at PwC, and this is within HR transformation. It's basically taking the current HR department and solving whatever problems they have, and moving them into their future state. It's a really interesting role, and it's in consultancy, which is not actually one that I had initially thought of, but one that I found through my lectures at Greenwich.

How do you feel about getting the Student of the Year Award?

Very, very grateful to get that. It's really nice to know that even though sometimes you go through tough times when you're studying a Master's, especially the dissertation which is such a massive, massive thing, that actually, you've done really well, and being recognised for it, is a really great feeling.

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