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Month: September 2019

September 30, 2019

Steve Aitken from Intelligent Plant on Placements and Interships

We had Steve Aitken from Intelligent Plant speaking to a number of students last week covering all of the years from level one to five. He covered what the company does with its ‘app store’ for industrial plants, and how they focus on developing the store and having organisations build apps to monitor their factories

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September 23, 2019

CVs and Cover Letters are useful in job applications

We had another good session on careers issues with the focus on CVs and cover letters. The basics were this: a) your cv should be adapted to each role you’re applying for, and tailored for those so that one for programming will look different from one for a business analyst role as you stress different

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September 11, 2019

Starting the hunt for internships by preparing your online profile

Today we started what will hopefully be a regular series of sessions with students to help prepare them for whatever they do after graduation. I wasn’t sure how many would come along. We had about 40, which was very good. The session had two goals: (a) find out who’s done what for their online profile,

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