Abhishek Nair

Since my last blog post, it can be made clear my consistency level have not been to the highest level. But, that doesn’t matter anyway because we can hit a rewind and start again…

When writing these blog posts, I often find myself in a writer’s block – spending hours coming up with few bits and then deleting it off. I sit like a lemon staring at my screen for hours, procrastinating looking at random videos to eventually start writing.

In July, 2019, I began my role as a Graduate Engineer for a company called Emerson Automation.

I think the introduction of my section will probably entail what I call to be an overview of how I got my place at Emerson. The job interview consisted of the following: Telephone interview which expanded upon basic behavioural competency questions. This was quiet standard and was expected. Assessment day in March, 2019 expanded on different aspects such as a technical presentation on IIoT – Industrial Internet of Things which was structured around the recent advances made by Emerson in their Automation technology called Plantweb. The presentation further led to a technical and non-technical questions and then ended up with a group exercise.

Comes July, I am being shipped off to Romania with 4 other graduates. A time of my life – meeting new people, finding the love of my life (Dacia Logan) 😉 and obviously, work training during the weekdays. Now the weekends were another story – travelling to different parts of Romania like Sighisoara (world heritage site), Brasov, Bucharest, Lake Tarnita, Cheile Turzii and Rimetea. I couldn’t believe 9 weeks came and went with the snap of a finger.

4th of October, I’ve returned to the gloomy weather of UK. Did I miss UK? Probably not, reality hits you hard when you start a 9-5 job. Life! Now, as I progress into my role, equipped with bucket loads of information that is completely pointless at this moment. My graduate program has been subject to a rotation system. I am looking forward to this and hope to spend the next two years earning that dollar $.