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12. Starting your placementSo you’ve got your job, you’ve found somewhere to live, and you are ready to go. Now all you need to do is actually start. Here are my five top tips. a. Find out what the dress code is for the 1st day, there is nothing worse than turning up in jeans when everyone else is…
11. Preparing for your work experienceSo you have accepted your offer and the job is in the bag. Congratulations. So what do you do now? Well truth is, you don’t have a lot to do apart from consider where you are going to live, and importantly who are you going to live with. Living Arrangements - what are the options available to…
If Carlsberg did salesmen… They’d probably be called BenFind out what our Guest Bloggers are getting up to. Throughtout the year we will be following the progress of our Guest Bloggers as they find a placement or keep us updated as to what they are doing on their placement. Click here to read all entries from our bloggers or click here to meet…
Thank Farooq for that! Thinking about doing a Work Placement..?This advice is written by Farooq (Faz) Asif, a final year student who studies at Aston University who spent his placement at General Motors last year. To see Faz’s profile click here. Here are 3 good reasons why you should! It’s a tough decision for some on deciding on whether to do a placement. For those…
Guest Blogger Phil – Secured his placementFind out what our Guest Bloggers are getting up to. Throughtout the year we will be following the progress of our Guest Bloggers as they find a placement or keep us updated as to what they are doing on their placement. Click here to read all entries from our bloggers or click here to meet…
Internships in the pressWe are keen to keep you up to date with any news about placements and internships that we stumble across. Here are a couple of articles I found in The Times that I felt were relevant, accurate and offered some good advice. The first one, “Internships give an extra edge” does exactly what it says…
10. Which job to accept?Every week or so we will publish the next installment of our guide of how to find, apply and secure your dream placement or internship. You can see our whole guide by clicking here. If you are lucky you will be offered your dream job, and obviously you will snap it up. However if you…
Guest Blogger Mike – The Great Summer DepressionFind out what our Guest Bloggers are getting up to. Throughtout the year we will be following the progress of our Guest Bloggers as they find a placement or keep us updated as to what they are doing on their placement. Click here to read all entries from our bloggers or click here to meet…
Guest Blogger Ben – Money, money, money – in a placement student’s worldFind out what our Guest Bloggers are getting up to. Throughtout the year we will be following the progress of our Guest Bloggers as they find a placement or keep us updated as to what they are doing on their placement. Click here to read all entries from our bloggers or click here to meet…
9. Failing to get your job?Unfortunately, it is almost inevitable that an application will get rejected at some point in your search for a placement and internship. During my search for a placement and internship I think I got turned down at one stage or another from at least 20 jobs, and given that I probably applied to no more…
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