Contact your company!

After you have chosen a country and a company in which you want to do your internship next year, you'll continue to work with this same company.

Now, find the company's email address and write them an email, asking for job opportunities and a brochure or catalogue. A model for the email will be given to you in class.

After you've written this email, try to find job offers and advertisements from your company. Make sure you understand the ads and save them.
Maybe there is an opening position for your dream job ??

Antonio's class Thursday 21 January

Imagine you have 3000 Euros and you want to invest it in a financial product from the bank Abbey, for 3 years. Go to the website of the bank: www.abbey.com, choose "future" in the product list. Then try to find the financial product that will make you the most money after 3 years.
Good luck!

Links to find information

Here are some links to websites that can be interesting for you to choose a country and a company:

http://europa.eu/abc/european_countries/index_en.htm (information about each EU member)

http://www.europages.co.uk/ (this website has information about companies in the EU; you can 'search by business sector' or 'search by theme' to get an overview of the different sectors)

www.transnationale.org/epays.php (click on a EU country in the map, and than click on 'companies from...' to get a list of the most important companies in this country.

If you are really interested in searching a job somewhere in the EU, here is a preview of what you can do:

http://www.europa.eu.int/eures/home.jsp?lang=en

First task

Imagine that you are going to do your internship in the EU. Choose a country and a company where you would like to work. Find the following information about the company: name, sector, address, branches in other countries, number of employees. Write it in a WordDoc, and post it on this blog. Also add your motivation why you chose that country and company.
Deadline: Thursday, 22 January 2009