E-Newsletter EXTRA OCTOBER 2009 (Part Two...)
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Contents: Part Two...
National Team News
Society News
- New Societies
- Birmingham Bright Futures News
- Aston Bright Futures News
- Swansea Bright Futures News
- Brunel Bright Futures News
- Leeds Bright Futures News
A Bit of Fun... 
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National Team News
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The Bright Futures National Team is switching over to the new members’ database as of November 2009. All new members need to sign up on the National Website using the software powered by Gradintel.com to ensure that they receive communications from Corporate Investors and the National Team, as well as the e-newsletter!
Maximise the opportunity to be headhunted for a top graduate job!
Registering on the Student Profiles software (powered by Gradintel) on the Bright Futures National website will allow you to be headhunted for graduate jobs with top companies. By completing the whole registration process and forwarding the CV that is produced to eve@brightfuturesresourcing.com you will have the opportunity to be placed on our recruitment ‘hotlist’ which also goes out to SMEs and will MAXIMISE the opportunities coming your way.
Npower challenges you!
For the 4th year running RWE Npower are inviting undergraduates in their final or penultimate year to enter this competition.
Each team must consist of four students who can be from varying departments, supported by one lecturer. If selected to attend the heat stage, teams will put forward their presentation to a panel of industry experts.
Successful entrants will be invited to one of two regional heats in early 2010 to compete for a place in the final. The final is to be held in March at Wembley Stadium and will be judged by the RWE npower Executive board.
The winning team will each win £1250 and £5000 for the academic department of the sponsoring lecturer. There will be runner up cash prizes for the second and third placed teams.
You must pre-register your team by 1st December 2009
Register as a Bright Futures team to gain exclusive access to 'insider' hints and tips on how to be successful in this competition! http://www.bright-futures.org.uk/npower-energy-challenge
To see a video about the Challenge http://www.npower.com/brightergraduates/npower-challenges-you.html
Our newest corporate Investor is Qedis - a unique, high energy, open and dynamic management consultancy. Their Corporate Profile is up so take a look. They’ve already begun contacting Bright Futures societies at their target universities and have some great ideas! They’ll also be attending various graduate fairs and university events in the next couple of months so look out for them.
Qedis are also keen to partake in any exciting or different events that you are hosting so please get in touch with them and let them know what you’ve got going on at your uni!
Society News
We have new societies about to kick off in the next month at LSBU, Newcastle, Durham, Gloucestershire, Sheffield Hallam, Liverpool and St Andrews, as well as activity at Cardiff, Derby, De Montford, Imperial Business School, Hull, Greenwich and Kingston amongst many others.
At the University of Birmingham Fresher's Fair we signed up 85 members to Birmingham Bright Futures and we also had over 100 people who wanted to be put on our mailing list!
Since Fresher’s we have had many students contacting us wanting to join the society. Our first event took place on the 19th of October with Deloitte who ran a presentation on internships and graduate opportunities as well as gave us application tips and hints.
We have already reached full capacity for this event! On the 27th of October we had an event with Accenture and in early November, Unilever are coming to Birmingham Bright Futures to run an exciting 'Dragon's Den' event. At this event, students will have the opportunity to carry out a pitch to the Unilever representatives and then be given feedback on how they performed.
Aston Bright Futures has just signed up over 100 new members at the Freshers Fair and our welcome meeting.Thanks to Nestle, The College of Law and Unilever for sending us freebies to lure the poor students in with!
We are deep in the midst of finalising details for our Evening with Industry event on Friday 20th November at Aston Villa. The venue has been given a once over and we like the pitch-side views!
The event has been improved even further this year and we are offering the likes of a 2 course meal, special guest speaker, entertainment from Aston societies, a raffle, ‘innovative’ student competition and we have many more ideas up our sleeves! If you would like to attend the event, or even sponsor it, please contact us on kirbycp@aston.ac.uk
At Freshers Fayre, Bright Futures Swansea signed up a total of 73 members, a number that is always increasing due to the popularity that many of our events are achieving when advertised.
Despite it still being early in the academic year, we already have a total of eight events confirmed, and that’s just for the first term. We’re held a social on the 12th October in order to get our members talking and to allow everyone to introduce them-selves. Following up to the 5th December, we have a range of talks, presentations and business games as well as another Christmas themed social.
We believe these events will be well attended as students gain valuable advice from businesses such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, ACCA, ICAEW and CIMA as well as the wide and varied number of business representatives that will attend our ‘Dinner With Industry’ on the 26th November.
Brunel Bright Futures has had a progressive start to the year from Fresher’s Fayre to organising events for the upcoming months. Our fresher’s fayre in September was very successful.
The committee members were able to explain and certainly get the concept and ideas of how being in the Bright Futures society can be very beneficial. We managed to sign up 39 members on the day, but are increasing our members daily.
In November, we will be hosting an event to for members to build and develop their soft skills as well as selling yourself at interviews. We are currently in contact with Barclays Bank, CIMA and ACA to plan and organise a few events early next term. We are also in contact with Npower, Centrica and Nestle and plan to organise an “Engineering week” next term.
We are developing our own website within the society to advertise events, increase member interaction and to promote the society. To find out more about Brunel Bright Futures or to become a member, join our Facebook group: Brunel Bright Futures.
At the relatively infant Leeds division of Bright Futures, we have actively sought to further our presence on campus and increase our profile to extend and raise awareness of the opportunities we can offer fellow students.
This has been achieved by making extensive use of all available media outlets around campus, from TV-screens, newspapers, web and paper advertising; as well as giving short talks in lectures to a wide range of students. We have managed to effectively emphasize our unique selling point (how nationwide recruiters seek to find local talent via the Bright Futures Organisation) through our campaign slogan; ‘Recession Proof Your Career’.
We have found this method of advertising to be attention grabbing, attractive, and therefore effective as demonstrated by the fact our membership numbers have significantly increased and are continually growing.
We completely filled all places to our first event featuring Accenture and CSC, and are anticipating another high turnout for our next event. Given the increasing student interest, we are now looking towards inviting more companies and hosting our future events in larger venues so that we can offer more places at our events. We believe we have had a positive start to the year and are confident that our society will grow to be a huge success here at Leeds.
A bit of Fun
A bit of Fun...
On a dark, dark, night. In a dark, dark wood. In a dark, dark house. In a dark, dark room. There was A …?
This month’s bit of fun calls on all of you who think they have a witty edge as we play name that photo!!
Give our National Team Halloween photo a caption and we will publish the best on our Facebook page next month. [Anyone feeling brave might like to set up a thread on the forum for discussion.]
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