(Day 168) First day of Internship Experience UK - Technology by Bright network

Ivan Ivanov · June 17, 2024

Hello :) Today is Day 168!

A quick summary of today:

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For completeness: here is the full schedule, and there are various sessions by top employers in the UK on building up our careers. Below are some notes from today’s sessions

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Session on leadership skills with Deloitte

  • creative problem-solving
    • identify challenges
    • generate solutions
    • making mistakes
    • skills in practice
  • empowering your team and embracing responsibility
    • encourage diverse perspectives
    • build trust
    • accountability and reliability
  • there was a task where we had to think about being a leader in a 2-week deadline merger&acquisition case - how to organise, manage communication, strategy and deadlines
  • using the Eisenhower matrix for task management

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Session on transferable skills by ICAEW

  • teamwork
  • people skills
  • decision making & problem solving
  • professionalism
  • commercial awareness
  • IT skills

Session on building your personal brand with PwC

Your personal brand is how you promote yourself. It is about how you present yourself, what are your values - what do you stand for.

‘Your brand is what others say about you when you’re not in the room.’ - Jeff Bezos

Personal brand mistakes

  • careful with online presence
  • communication skills and knowing your environment and how to speak in the workplace
  • integrity
  • professionalism

Tomorrow is when the Tech-specific sessions start and also the day ends at ~2am for me, so it will be a long day.

Finally

Right now when I was closing tabs, I saw on youtube a livestream by DataTalksClub. Their LLM zoomcamp is starting today - and it is the first time they are running it. So I am thinking of joining because at the end (just like their other courses) I will have a nice project that I can add to my portfolio.

It covers:

  1. Introduction to LLMs and RAG
  2. Open-source LLMs and self-hosting LLMs
  3. Vector databases and retrieval techniques
  4. Workshop: dlt
  5. LLM orchestration and ingestion pipelines
  6. Monitoring and Guardrails
  7. Tips and Tricks for advanced RAG systems
  8. Project

That is all for today!

See you tomorrow :)