Month: November 2011

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Graduate scheme should give you a foot in the door

Graduate jobs are difficult to come by in today’s economic climate, with NEETs (those not in education, employment or training) accepting the brunt of unemployment. Employers have cut back on posts as well as the scope of any graduate scheme they might advertise, reflecting the harsh realities of the savings they are having to make to stay in business. Many companies are still running an internship programme, which can be a brilliant way to move into a job. However, internships must be considered with careful thought, since they differ hugely in quality and purpose.

In the worst case, an internship is just an employer’s way of getting cheap labour. Under the pretence of teaching you about your chosen industry, they can essentially exploit their interns. The change in the law that requires organisations to pay interns at least the minimum wage has reduced this problem slightly, since they still have to get value for money out of those who come to work for them. However, there is still the problem of widely differing expectations. Lots of interns arrive in their new place of work, only to find that their employer has taken the internship far less seriously than they have. In these cases, an internship is little more than a way of marking time.

In the best cases, though, internships can be outstanding learning experiences. They will often lead to a role in the relevant industry or the company itself, and it is worth ensuring at the beginning if this is a possibility. This fact alone will often enable you to knew those who want to prepare you for working in the sector, and those who are just looking for cheap workers. Larger employers with well-organised schemes are usually reasonable bets. However, smaller employers can be goldmines, since they offer great chances for getting to know the whole of an organisation. If you are uncertain, read any reviews you can find or ask previous interns. Feedback is often kept on university careers sites.

An internship is one way into graduate jobs, and may be an option in a climate where the graduate scheme market is more competitive than it was a few years ago. Nevertheless, you should not give up on these. Start early, and cast your net wide to maximise your opportunities. You can always turn down offers you get if you later think you don’t really want them. What you don’t want is to find yourself in the position of so many other NEETs: finishing university, with no job or internship lined up, and no immediate chance of finding something you really want to do.

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External louvres to fit all shapes and sizes of building

Anyone who has worked in an ill-ventilated building in hot weather or in the midst of radiators running on overdrive will know how agonising such an experience of heat can be. Headaches become commonplace, backs and foreheads drip with sweat and levels of productivity run at all-time lows. Working in cold buildings can be equally uncomfortable of course: fingers can be heard cracking at their keyboards and many cups of tea or coffee must be supplied simply to keep the office workers functioning. The latter nippy conditions are sometimes not even the fault of low quality insulation or an inefficient heating system; quite conversely, the chill factor in the workplace often results from costly air-conditioning systems going into overdrive and leaving employees feeling thirsty and irritable. Happily, both overheating and underheating can be avoided quite easily with the latest innovations in brise soleil, glass louvres and external louvres.

Indeed, the answers to the above problems are not so tricky to find. Among glass louvres, external louvres and brise soleil, the latter are preventative innovations, for example, that stop the cause of overheating at its source: using a special cut of glass that has all the markings of an object of high design, the brise soleil is effectively an advanced reworking of the parasol or awning that helps prevent glare by stopping direct sunshine from entering a given building. An additional bonus that compliments the brise is its ability to make a building more private, thus conjuring an air of mystery around an enterprise at the same time as allowing employees to concentrate.

Glass louvres and external louvres are perhaps even more warranting of praise than the brise soleil, however, for they comply with and even exceed the kind of environmental policies put forward by green parties globally. Altogether then, the above developments in building enhancement technology will allow company bosses to conduct their businesses more responsibly. Directors who opt for heat-controlling investments will be recognised as those who make their employees, as well as the consciences of their clients, an absolute priority. Finally, the fact remains that buying into these structural additions will actually modernize the aspect of any given office block or shop; we have only to think of the Eden project in Cornwall or Paris’s Louvre itself to realise that a business buying into shading and heating devices will be following in the footsteps of architectural success.

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