Happy holidays!

Very short this week as it is nearly Easter! First April to June seminars are events are the City Business Library, including  sessions on how to pitch and how ti do business in Turkey. Perhaps related to pitches and entrepreneurship, here are two fascinating Special Reports from the Financial Times on Wealth and Boldness in Business.  Good luck with all your assignments and don't forget to come and see a librarian if you are struggling with research!

Weekly round up, Chocolate, Lean In and Robots.

It of a bumper round up of interesting stories and articles this month. Starting with two stories on women and their careers. Firstly the BBC looking at the impact of Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In movement and side by side a piece from the Financial Time s looking at the EU calling for more women directors. Turning now to food and market behaviour we may have to accept paying more for chocolate or losing it all together - good news for the waistline perhaps but not for the bank balance. Now to consumer stereotypes, the Brits drink tea and Americans drink coffee right? Well apparently not, tea drinking is on the decline in Britain but growing in America. Apparently it's due to a change in work place habits - maybe we need to extra caffeine kick of coffee? The basket of staples used to calculate UK inflation now includes e-cigarettes, craft beer and Spotify. And a blog from Harvard Business Review looking at the impact on our shopping habits of using reusable bags. Apparently they make use feel virtuous and make us more likely to buy organic but also junk food because we have earned it!

Now a cute article about the growing role of robots in manufacturing industries. Finally two more special reports from the Financial Times - one on the Connected Business and one on Risk Management. 

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Exam Stress? Thinking about your Career or a Masters?

Here are some useful and through provoking resources.
Firstly  a remind of ReWise - your one stop call for exam preparation which is running from 16th March to 24th April The LDU will be running a range of workshops and events to help you succeed and approach your exams with calm! Take advantage of this, exams can very stressful. Also next week we will be running 'Here to Help' in the Library@Williams from 18th - 20th March. The librarians will be there along with IT, Achievement Officers, LDU, SLAs and more to highlight the help and support available. There will also be coffee so come alone and meet us all.

Aside from the help available at Middlesex there's also some really useful information about careers and postgraduate study on the Financial Times Website which has a section dedicated to Business Education.It's really interesting including a blog written by MBA students and regular articles on education in business,key issues and development. In addition they have two mental 'gyms' to help students see if they are ready for an MBA or a Master course. Even if you are already on a postgraduate course or not even planning one just yet it would be fun and interesting to see how you measure up. The also have a careers sections which is worth a look. For those of you who are not Post Grads, there also a wonderful tool called the FT.com lexicon under 'Tool's which has definitions of business terms and topics, highlights current issues and news around topics. Check it out!

For those of you who want to venture far afield, City Business Library in Moorgate is doing seminars on doing business in Turkey and Poland. Should be worth checking out!

Doing Business in Turkey

On Thursday 2 April (13:45 - 16:45), City Business Library will be running a seminar on Doing Business in Turkey, in association with the Turkish British Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TBCCI). This seminar is intended as an introduction for UK companies looking to do business in Turkey. It will feature presentations on the opportunities and challenges of doing business in Turkey, as well as Turkish business methods and business culture. Book here. 

City Business Library is also running a Doing Business in Poland seminar on Wednesday 18 March (14:30 – 17:00) in association with Choumal Consultancy and featuring speakers from the Trade and Investment Section of the Polish Embassy. Find more information here. The closing date for bookings is 09:00 on Monday 16 March.

Want to learn a language at Middlesex?

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-A group for those interested in learning and improving languages-
 

Have you taken the BAT?

Please contact Sarah Hudson if so -  s.hudson@mdx.ac.uk

Would any student who has taken the Bloomberg Aptitude Test and has been contacted by a potential employer/trainer, please contact Sarah Hudson detailing whether it was a job or internship, an offer or an interview.

It is very difficult to gauge the effectiveness or usefulness of the BAT  as a means of gaining employment or training and as such, Sarah would really appreciate the feedback.