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BBS update 18 January Posted: Mon, January 18, 2010

Phase-over Plan – this week:

If you do not have a confirmed placement you should have returned to college this week on Monday January 18 and Tuesday January 19 to attend flexible semester lectures for New Venture Initiative or College and Community.  If your CV is with a company and you are awaiting interview, you should still report to college and attend lectures.  Time and place for lectures are on the School Notice Board.  You should let Annette Toms at bbsplacement@wit.ie know if you have secured a work placement position yourself.  

Jobs last week:  5 jobs secured: 1 in Waterford Credit Union and 4 directly by students (Fitzgerald Life and Pensions, New Ross Town Council, Movehome.ie (Dublin) and Slaney Foods Wexford).  Well done to the students involved.

Last Day for interviews:   Friday 22 Jan is the last day for interviews.  There are some interviews planned for this week.   

Log Books:  Those students who have secured a work placement position should complete the Cover Sheet of the log book as soon as possible.  This gives the name and address of your employer, name of your supervisor and contact e-mail addresses and telephone numbers.  Include your start date and, If you know your finish date, include that also.  Ignore the section about Mentor Contact and Visit.   You can return the signed log book Cover Sheet to Annette Toms by fax to 051-302688, have it scanned into an e-mail and send to bbsplacement@wit.ie or post to Annette Toms, School of Business, WIT, Cork Road, Waterford.  Note the Cover Sheet must be signed by your supervisor.

The template for the Cover Sheet, together with the template for the Log Book, and some tips and sample log books are available on the website <BBS> <BAFS>.

Your Mentor:  In due course your college mentor will be appointed.  This may be one of the placement team or one of the BBS lecturers.  Your college mentor will contact you in due course and arrange to visit you during your work placement.   These visits will not happen for some time yet; it is normal to wait until you are well settled in to your work.

For our latest statistics, follow this link.  Note that the 'CV sent' column indicates how many CVs were sent to prospective employers and some CVs have been sent to more than one employer.