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With 12 months served at Cawarden, Emma Attwood speaks of her time there so far
How did you come to be working at Cawarden?
I was looking for a new role and a new challenge within the demolition industry that I know and love. I live in South Derbyshire so I was looking to join a local firm – so you could say
I was fishing in a fairly small pond. Recruiters, friends and family advised me that I needed to start looking at other industries and consider other marketing opportunities. Reluctantly, I did – I had to – but my heart was in demolition.
Through the power of LinkedIn, I was introduced to William Crooks, Managing Director of Cawarden. The rest, as they say, is history. I was delighted to join Cawarden last March, just a couple of weeks before the first lockdown. In a new standalone role, I joined the Cawarden team as their Marketing and Communications Manager.
What roles had you previously had?
I left college at eighteen and I took a temporary role as an administrator at a large power transmission and telecoms company in Nottinghamshire. The six-week temporary role turned into almost ten years and tons of opportunities. It was here that I was offered the amazing opportunity to be sponsored to do a full-time degree at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), while working part-time as a Marketing and Communications Assistant. It was possible to do both, I just had to duck out of most forms of ordinary student life. After completing a design/ business degree at NTU, I stayed with the firm for several more years and I took on some exciting roles, including Personal Assistant to the Managing Director and divisional Marketing and Communications Manager. I then took an opportunity to join a London-based specialist contractor as their Marketing and Communications Manager. I did that for seven years before joining Cawarden.
As a marketing professional, what drew you to use your skills in construction and demolition?
It was the engineering, construction/ demolition industries that gave me my skills. And if it wasn’t for certain people along the way seeing something in me, encouraging and supporting me and presenting some incredible opportunities, I most definitely wouldn’t be where I am today. I am so grateful to those people for believing in me, even when I didn’t always believe in myself. 32 | DemolitionHUB Magazine
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