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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Tess Reidy

How my university went the extra mile so I could land a dream job with a tech giant

Students studying together in the Students' Union.
The university organises numerous extracurricular and networking events to help students build experience Photograph: LSBU

It’s early evening and Haroon Butt, 22, is speaking from his hotel room in Madrid. “It’s very hot, it’s 35C and there are no clouds. It’s crazy,” he says. Within months of graduating from London South Bank University (LSBU) last year, Butt, who studied business management with enterprise and entrepreneurship, had received job offers from prestigious companies such as Amazon and Which? Six months later, he’s now a programme manager at Amazon, and will be spending the rest of the year touring warehouses across Europe. “We’re based in the UK but they want us to travel a lot. The whole team is here,” he says.

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Haroon Butt (left) at his graduation Photograph: none
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