Paul Brummell
Head of Soft Power and External Affairs Department, Communication Directorate
22nd July 2015
Former intern Cristina Marcu shares with us her experience on working with UKTI colleagues in our commercial department, promoting British businesses in Romania. My experience with the UK Embassy inspired me greatly and few weeks after my internship experience came to an end, I was employed by the American International School of Bucharest as an […]
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22nd July 2015
Our guest blogger today is Daria Catalui, a passionate volunteer and founder of Danube, EDU youth regional NGO. Currently she is working in digital education for EU’s cybersecurity agency ENISA. I was an intern long time ago when studying in Bucharest. From the first moment when I entered the embassy for the interview to the […]
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16th July 2015
Today’s guest blogger is Cosmina Grigore, a PR professional and patient coach. Cosmina was one of the earliest alumni and as a student she was the first to contact the embassy and to suggest the programme. “This idea will never happen. They’ve never done such thing”, she said to me. Then she added: “It’s impossible, […]
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16th July 2015
Next up in our guest posts series is Elis Bechir, former Political Section intern and currently part of UNV staff working in Haiti. Here’s her take on the importance of volunteering. On my last job interview -which I passed- I was asked why is volunteering important to me. Whenever I am asked about my professional […]
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16th July 2015
Beatrice Panduru has just recently finished her internship . She worked closely with the embassy’s events officer to deliver this year’s Queen’s Birthday Party. Sunny days. These are the words to describe my time at the Embassy. Taking it from the beginning, the first time I visited the embassy was when I had my interview […]
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16th July 2015
Andra Cazacu was a British Embassy intern in 2007 and is currently working as a Product Marketing Manager at Bitdefender, one of Romania’s leading IT companies. Here’s what she thinks about her time with the embassy as an intern. 8 years ago (I can’t believe how long it’s been), I read about an opening for […]
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15th July 2015
Our second guest blogger is Dimitrie Mihes, an internship alumnus and our current economic officer in the embassy’s political section. Having been reminded several times by our ever-so-vigilant comms officer, Catalina, to write about my time as an intern with the British Embassy, my guilty conscience started to outweigh the pleasure of procrastination. So as […]
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14th July 2015
This year we are celebrating 10 years since the embassy launched its internship scheme. I have invited alumni to share their stories on my blog, and the first guest post is signed by our Head of Communications, Raluca Bragarea, who helped launch this initiative. Ten years, about 150 students or young professionals, an idea exported […]
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15th June 2015
This post was published when the author was in a previous role
I moved to the UK 12 years ago. I lived outside of London for a while before moving to London after 3 years. My integration into the British community was bumpy at first as I didn’t speak English at all. Somehow I made it, and now I am a photographer and at the same time I run a private school of photography in central London. This is […]
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11th June 2015
This post was published when the author was in a previous role
It was a summer day in August and I was having burgers and fries at the only McDonald’s in Berceni, a peripheral neighborhood in Bucharest. Misha, who was sipping out of a Coke plastic cup, was soon to be the first employee of my budding new venture that had no clients, no money and no […]
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