{"id":3450,"date":"2021-08-18T08:51:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T08:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2021-10-14T16:11:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T16:11:14","slug":"best-place-to-work-in-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2021\/08\/18\/best-place-to-work-in-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Place to Work in Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/microsoftteams-image_2_2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3540\" src=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/microsoftteams-image_2_2-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/microsoftteams-image_2_2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/microsoftteams-image_2_2-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/microsoftteams-image_2_2-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/microsoftteams-image_2_2-1.jpg 1190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As you know I always like to celebrate successes and so I am much chuffed to hear that we are shortlisted for two more industry awards.\u00a0 This time from Computing magazine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/event.computing.co.uk\/digitaltechnologyleadersawards\/en\/page\/2021-finalists\">https:\/\/event.computing.co.uk\/digitaltechnologyleadersawards\/en\/page\/2021-finalists<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are finalist in 2 categories: <strong>Best Place to Work in Digital \u2013 Large Organisations<\/strong> and\u00a0 \u00a0we are<strong> winners of Project Team of the Year. <\/strong>The awards are for the work we do in supporting student interns into our organisation and the work the interns do in Learn Foundations.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Our programme has created over 300 digital student internships. We work hard to attract the brightest students and take care to train and support them by creating an environment where they grow and thrive. The student workers in our organisation transform the culture, bring new viewpoints, ideas and diversity to our teams. They provide unique perspectives on our services.\u00a0 Increasing the number of students who work in our organisation is our strategic ambition and a vital part of enabling the University effectively to meet future digital challenges\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have actually won awards for this work <a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2019\/11\/15\/hrnetwork\/\">before<\/a>, so to get more prizes reflects your sustained excellence.\u00a0 The winners will be announced at a glamorous awards ceremony on Wednesday 13 October in fancy London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know I always like to celebrate successes and so I am much chuffed to hear that we are shortlisted for two more industry awards.\u00a0 This time from Computing magazine. https:\/\/event.computing.co.uk\/digitaltechnologyleadersawards\/en\/page\/2021-finalists We are finalist in 2 categories: Best Place to Work in Digital \u2013 Large Organisations and\u00a0 \u00a0we are winners of Project Team of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[285],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eople-place-work","tag-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3543,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}