Q&A: Getting connected at Thales

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If you bring your full self to a role, are confident and assertive, there shouldn’t be any reason why women can’t succeed in engineering, says Amy Blake, Assistant Project Manager at Thales in the UK.

I joined Thales in April 2020. I had never worked in an engineering field before, having previously worked in the retail and beauty industries. I was looking for a new challenge, and knew I had lots of transferrable skills, so was very open minded as to what that could be.

At the same time, my sister, Lily, was working for Thales on the Connect project, and flagged that the team were actually recruiting for some new roles. She convinced me to apply and interview for a job on the same project and I’m so glad she did.

I joined the team during the pandemic, so am in the early stages of my career compared to a lot of the Thales team who have worked on Connect for many years. It was quite daunting joining as the new person, particularly coming from outside the engineering sector, but the team has been very welcoming and supportive. Now, over a year in, I forget that I haven’t had a chance to meet some of them properly face to face because of the pandemic and am looking forward to rectifying that soon!

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