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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?

Check out this facebook page!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MDXLanguagePartners/
Find your Language Partner at MDX University

-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.

News Round-up & VLearn

Lots of interesting stories about the Internet this week -  first up a story on net neutrality in the US and another on Google's shake up of its European operations. Finally a fascinating piece of people who are paid to edit Wikipedia articles and the increasingly small band of editors that are running the site. Another couple of factors to bear in mind before relying on information found on Wikipedia.

This is a fun article looking at Lego's record success - it is now the most popular toy in the word and the company that on average every person on earth owns 102 of its bricks! In the light of so much banking controversy her is a piece taking a very long view and looking at the history of Banking and is a fascinating read. Finally a website called VLearn.org is well worth a visit. It is a collection of video talking on topics relating to leadership, business and the economy and would be a good place to start broadening you thinking or encountering new ideas.

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Bloomberg Aptitude Test - March 2nd

The new date for the Bloomberg Aptitude Test is the 2nd of March at 11am in room S112 which is next to the Financial Markets Lab.

The BAT is a 2-hour multiple-choice exam designed to assess aptitude for business and finance. Scores are entered anonymously into the BAT database where over 20,000 top firms can search for internship and full-time candidates.

This is an amazing opportunity for both students and staff to take the BAT, uncover their strengths across a range of finance, business, career and personal competencies and gain insight into their suitability for careers in business and finance.

After taking the test, students can enter their scores  into the BAT Talent Search, a tool used by employers to identify candidates for entry-level roles in business. 

Employers can view student profiles anonymously and may elect to contact students with testing profiles complementary to their available career opportunities.

If you would like to register for the BAT, please click on this link or go to the Bloomberg Institute registration web page: http://about.bloomberginstitute.com/students/bloomberg-aptitude-test/

Enquiries should be sent to: Sarah Hudson – s.hudson@mdx.ac.uk