Her son is doing a master's in Manchester. She found him his first internship

Ms Chen (not her real name) has a son studying for a master's in business analytics in Manchester. With coursework and group projects filling every week, the internship search kept slipping. Ms Chen works in finance in China and knew nothing about the UK job market, but she had time and she had patience. She signed up for the JobExpress parent version, using her own account, and took the job on for him.

I don't understand British companies and I don't understand what he studies. But I knew that if nobody did anything, the summer would be gone.

Week one: setting out the situation clearly

In the first conversation Ms Chen described her son's degree, his modules, a data internship he had done in China and the window he had free over the summer. JobExpress drew up a job-search profile and was frank about two things: internships for business analytics master's students in the UK are fiercely competitive and the application season was already half over, and her son's CV was in a Chinese format and needed rebuilding the British way.

Ms Chen sent the profile to her son, who for the first time replied at length and took it seriously. They agreed a split: he would supply the material and prepare for interviews, and she would handle everything else.

Weeks two to four: CV and direction

• Her son sent over the raw material from his course projects and the internship in China. Ms Chen explained each item in the conversation, and JobExpress rewrote it as a one-page CV in the British style
• The skills assessment set a paper pitched at data internship level, which her son finished in one evening. It showed his SQL was good enough and his Excel modelling was weak, and that gap was closed in the final weeks
• The target was set as data internships in Manchester and Leeds, eight to ten weeks over the summer, paid

Weeks five to seven: applications and follow-up

JobExpress filtered 15 internships against the profile, each confirmed as genuinely open, and nine of them stated clearly that they accepted international students still on their course. Every CV and cover letter was adjusted to the role. Where Ms Chen could not follow the English, she asked JobExpress to explain it in Chinese before deciding. Applications went out in her son's name, each one was logged in the progress tracker, and Ms Chen spent an hour each evening on whatever needed following up.

Interviews and the outcome

Two companies invited him to interview. Her son prepared himself, and Ms Chen sent him the role requirements and company background JobExpress had put together. A week after the second interview, the offer arrived: a ten-week paid data internship with a retail group in Manchester. Seven weeks from the first conversation.

Looking back: what a parent can do

• A parent does not need to understand the subject. Describing the child's situation clearly is enough; JobExpress supplies the judgement and the material
• The time difference works in your favour. While the child is in class, the parent has already dealt with the day's applications and follow-ups
• Agree the split in advance. Material and interviews belong to the child, the rest to the parent, and nobody crosses the line