Sentence examples for did a secondment from inspiring English sources
I did a secondment with the digital team at Number 10 last year and learned a lot from them.
Two years on secondment in the Downing Street press office followed from 2000: "He couldn't have done a bad job – he wouldn't have lasted 10 minutes if he hadn't been able to get on with Alastair," says a former colleague – before a further secondment followed as adviser to the cardinal in the austere and fusty Archbishop's House, behind Westminster Cathedral.
Ten years on from my experience, I've been promoted for secondment in a more senior post and have done an MSc in public health.
During my civil service career I had two secondments to the private sector and funded myself for two years to do an MBA at the London Business School.
You work in three departments and complete a secondment in the first two years, and then the plan is to do two more one-year placements and go back to one of the departments you worked in before.
Planning is key to a successful secondment: Before someone undertakes a secondment the organisation needs to be clear why they are sending one of their executives out on secondment – if it is to acquire or augment a new skill then what are they going to do ensure that the individual comes back to a role that will utilise these skills.
He retired in 1990, after a secondment to the Canadian Museum of Civilisation.
He worked in the steelworks with a secondment during which he joined the Army.
A secondment opportunity to the emergency team came up, so I became an emergency support officer.
A secondment will not work if those involved lack enthusiasm or a real determination to make it work.
