Month: December 2010

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School uniforms available from an online supplier: very useful for me!

When it comes to that time of year – the summer holidays drawing to an end, kids getting restless, even if they wouldn’t want to admit it, they’re getting bored with having nothing to do all day – getting ready to send them back to school fully equipped can be a difficult feat. Personally, I always tend to make the same mistake. Well, until recently I did, anyway. I always used to think of anything and everything that they would possibly need in terms of stationary, or gimmicks, or other fun paraphernalia. In that respect my two kids would be among the best prepared in the entire school! I’m talking about ridiculous things, like special files with secret compartments, or a compass with flashing LED lights, or an eraser in the shape of Snoopy. But I always used to forget perhaps the most important thing: school uniforms! On the Saturday or Sunday before school started again for the year, I would put the school clothes out on a chair, look at them, and and think: the kids will have grown out of these! Then, because of my busy day job, it would always be difficult to find a London schoolwear supplier that was open when I was free, so often I had to rely on friends, which wasn’t perfect.

Nowadays, this is no longer a problem, because I have found a supplier that can deliver my children’s uniforms, which is just fantastic. I get back from work in time to start making dinner, and normally the uniforms have been delivered to my neighbour, who kindly looks after our cat too.

I think the kids are pretty happy I have found a school uniform supplier as well, even if they won’t admit it! Essentially, it means an end to those embarrassing situations on the first day back at school when all the other kids are in their shiny new uniforms, but their shirts are too small, old and uncomfortable. I felt so sorry the first time that happened! I also get their sports stuff from the same supplier now, which is great: it gives me far more time to spend on getting fun new stationary!

It’s funny, but I don’t even tend to forget about the school clothes these days. I’m not sure why, but now, when I find myself browsing in a stationary shop and picking up some kind of novelty pencil case, I suddenly think: school uniforms! And I get online so I can put an order in with my London schoolwear supplier.

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How to work out whether a graduate scheme is right for you

I always knew it was going to happen, but somehow it still surprised me when it did.  In my third year at university, talk turned to graduate jobs, and I realised that I was going to have to make some plans for my future.  Unlike some of my friends, who had spent their summers in internship jobs with a view to getting on a graduate scheme at a big organisation, I had opted to journey to far flung corners of the world during my breaks from university, teaching English in Asia and South America.  This left me feeling rather like a blank canvas, which I tried to see as a positive thing, and so I set about trying to think about what kind of roles might be fitting for me.

The first thing I did was to visit my university careers service.  The problem with this, though, was that they had a wealth of information about how to get work in your chosen area, if you knew what that was.   The staff there seemed a little fed up of confused undergraduates expecting them to provide answers to all the tough questions in their lives. It was clear that I was going to have to do a little more thinking by myself before I could enlist the help of somebody who didn’t know me.

I decided to start scanning all the job adverts printed in newspapers, to get a better idea of opportunities that were available.  Part of my job search involved widening my outlook to get a better sense of potential career paths, beyond the classic graduate scheme jobs and ‘professions’, which I didn’t think were for me.  From scanning a large number of these I managed to get a good grasp of the kind of roles that interested me and their requirements.

I could see that the kind of jobs I was interested in were mainly in the charity sector, but most of the jobs advertised specified that applicants needed to have a demonstrable interest in the charity sector and some work experience.  I was concerned that this might be difficult for me to illustrate, so I decided to apply for internship jobs and work experience in the charities that I was interested in.  I was offered a couple of placements at medium sized UK charities.  After working as an assistant at both of these for a number of weeks, I was convinced that this was the kind of thing I wanted to be doing. After a few weeks, I had a phone call from somebody I had worked with at one of the charities, saying that there was a vacancy that they would like me to fill. I was pleased that I hadn’t gone for a graduate scheme like most of my friends, and the graduate jobs market had not been quite as much of a nightmare as I had expected!

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