Lydia's experience: "TAP helped me see that I am employable and that I can find my place in the working world"
This is an adapted version of a presentation that English Literature graduate Lydia gave at the Yorkshire Universities 'One Year On' Employability Conference on 7th June 2023. Lydia presented to an audience of over 100 delegates from universities across the Yorkshire region about her understanding of and experience of 'employability'. She discusses how, due to an inclusive environment on her TAP internship with With Love in 2021, she felt able to bring all parts of her identity to the workplace and celebrate the value in her 'contexts and disabilities'. Read on to see how this has transformed Lydia's attitude to the workplace: I always thought that being employable was learning how to be an inauthentic version of myself. To be a person who masked, altered and suppressed all my needs in order to be an employee who didn’t need any accommodations. This was a really scary and a potentially dangerous expectation of the working world. My experience with TAP he