Women of Multiverse - Katie Pinion

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Written by Katie Pinion, currently completing the DBA apprenticeship working as a recruitment consultant at Morgan Hunt in the UK.

I’m Katie, 20, currently doing a digital business accelerator apprenticeship with Multiverse and working at Morgan Hunt as a recruitment consultant. Before this apprenticeship, I’d achieved 3 A-Levels, and had been in another two apprenticeships but neither one felt like a good fit for me within the companies, so I ended up deciding to quit and give myself some time to find something I’d enjoy as I don’t want to spend 9am - 5pm from Monday through to Friday unhappy. So, I stumbled across Multiverse and applied for a few roles that seemed interesting to me on a random Friday afternoon and was invited to an interview for the following Monday morning hours later- and then after the interview, I was offered a role! Since then, I’ve taken advantage of quite a few of the things that Multiverse has to offer- such as the outreach scheme, the events, peer volunteering etc.

I’m proud to be a woman as I look back on how far us women have come and everything we have done to get to this point. I also look at the women in my family, like my mum, for example. She hasn’t worked since I was born, but she’s one of my biggest role models as she is the person who does everything for everyone inside and outside of our house and I don’t understand how she deals with me and my younger siblings sometimes!

Personally, I am going to use this year's theme #breakthebias as a reason to investigate sectors or areas that I’m passionate about and research into the important high-achieving women taking part in them and what they did to get there- did they struggle to get to the point they’re at now? Was it a male-dominated area to focus on? Etc.

I think the biggest bias I’ve been a part of was how when I tell people I used to be a part of a football team and a hockey team. The shocked expression as though a girl doesn’t usually take much part in sports became engrained in my mind, as regular as a reaction to hearing your own name.

Looking back at the past, and how the suffragettes stuck together and worked together to get women their rights, I think that’s how we, as a gender, should be about it. If we stick up for one another and make sure that we are helping each other and not tearing each other down, then we’ll climb up the ladder and achieve more and more!