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What is Professionalism?
Our Year 10 work experience student reflects on her 2 weeks working with Rebel Led and the lessons she has learnt about the world of work, professionalism and inclusion. Before starting work experience, I knew next to nothing about the working world, and had no actual expectations. Even though my school taught lessons about work, and the skills needed to work, my knowledge was still limited, as their idea of work was outdated, and did not account for the way companies work and function in the modern world. Needless to say, this was new territory for me, and there were a lot of things I had to learn whilst working there.
“We’re all equal”
Typically, I’d discuss a couple of Islamophobic incidents, show you the data or make some suggestions as to how non-Muslims can become better allies and punctuate it with some cute, “we’re all equal” rhetoric, but I couldn’t. In fact, the whole team has been somewhat stunned by global events all month, causing a silence that seems almost complicit. It feels impossible to acknowledge the mistreatment of Muslims nationally and worldwide without making reference to the war in the Middle-East. When looking at the history of the events and the current context since October, we can see the war is not about religion… that neither Jew nor Muslim wants to see their communities as victims of violence, but here in the UK it's really difficult to reconcile that with the images we see