Every week we will be picking one lucky winner to receive £50 worth of Amazon vouchers to spend on anything they want. All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is to write a review on your internship or placement experience, it is as simple as that. We will be posting the competition winners through this blog each week, so make sure you visit us again soon!

…..Chris Morford from Northumbria University following a review of his placement at Prospect Soft, congratulations Chris you are this weeks winner!

We caught up with Chris to find out a little bit more about our competition winner.

What will you spend your £50 Amazon vouchers on?

“I’d like to say I would buy something useful like some study material for next year, but to be honest, that’s probably not going to happen. It will be some sort of DVD series (maybe The Wire) and/or an Xbox game (probably the next edition of Pro Evolution Soccer). Who knows, the world of Amazon is my oyster!”

What are your careers plans for the future now that you are finishing your placement?

“I have always been told that I have the gift of the gab, so for the last 6 years I have always been involved in sales and this year was no different. However this year I was selling to businesses, opposed to my previous job where it was individual people in the retail sector. I have had a great placement at ProspectSoft. I was given a true experience of B2B sales and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I think my future must lie in sales of some sort and due to my performance this year, I have gained the perfect opportunity to land my graduate position in the sales department at ProspectSoft.”

Top placement tip:

“Work your arse off to impress! A lot of employers see undergraduate placement years as a year long job interview for post graduate work. So if you impress enough to be offered a job at the end of your year, it may help alleviate some of the pressure in your final year. Also, enjoy yourself and have a laugh, I did!”

Why did you decide to review your placement?

“I wanted to review my placement to let people know about ProspectSoft and the quality of the job they offer you. Students like me are always looking at massive companies for a placement, mainly so they have a “big name” on their CV at the end of it. However being at a slightly more compact company you get given so much more responsibility and can gain so much more from it. ProspectSoft have given me so much this year and I hope this review will enable other people to have the same opportunity that I have had. And also, if I didn’t review it I wouldn’t have won £50 so……”

Well done for writing a great review Chris! Happy spending! To read the winning review, please click here.

Completing a placement or internship this summer? Fancy winning your own £50 Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate?