Work
Experience at BT
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Why me? Why BT?
"We're shaping
the future. If you think you can help us do that, we're interested in talking
to you about yours." BT has over 20 million customers and is a world
multi-billion telecommunications company. It is divided into 3 main section: BT
Wholesale-network services, BT Retail-UK’s Largest telecommunications
service and BT Global services-global ICT solutions and services.
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Our work style
BT aims to use
communications technology to create a better world and believes that some of
the first people to benefit should be the people who work for them. As you would expect,
Bt has good employee communications and their company's Intranet, one of the
largest in Europe, and it is used extensively for information, training and
improving the way Bt works. We also listen to
our people through upward feedback and our regular attitude survey, with a
People Satisfaction Index, measuring people's feelings
about working conditions, management support and how jobs compare with
others in BT. Work/life balance
BT is dedicated to
helping their people transform the way they work as they respond to enormous
changes in working patterns in the future. So Bt is setting the
pace in enabling and actively promoting flexible, home and part-time working
through using our own products and services. And that helps their people to
achieve balance and so enhance their professional and personal lives. Technology
contributes further - for example, teleconferencing meant our people
travelled 150 million miles less last year, according to Bt's calculations.
That's good for the environment too. Improving the way people live
In the past five
years, BT has funded schemes helping to improve the way people live with more
than £75m. But that's just a small part of what they do. Our aim is to be a
company our customers can be proud of - and where you want to build your
career. Check out our record
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Is BT a good company to work
for?
One of the things that surprised me most was
the salaries the main people running BT earn, for example BT’s Chairman
earns 512,000 on average per year! And the Chief Executive earns 2,174,000 in
2003!!!
What will I be doing?
Bristol-
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Receiving
information and talks about BT (don’t worry these are really fun and
the it is a very casual talk with you and the maximum of 5 other people)
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Sending a
fax – this was my first time at using a fax machine and it is
surprisingly easy. I even put the paper in the wrong way round and they
didn’t mind.
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Watching
presentations – I saw BT’s adverts before they were shown on the
television!
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The people
like their breaks- I had one for a snack and one for lunch.
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Chatting-
they are very interesting people, one of whom told me about his holidays and
he has been round the world, even to Peru!
London-
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It is very
busy in the London office therefore don’t expect to be the centre of
attention- personally I liked this because I could see how BT actually works
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If you
have time you can spend the whole week in different BT departments
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Researching-
I was asked to research about a competing mobile phone company (don’t
worry they show you how to do this and they give you lots of help if you get
stuck.
Overall, London or Bristol???
London is definitely the more exciting and
the massive nine storey glass building is very impressive. However if you are
feeling shy I would go to the Bristol offices since they are much closer,
still very interesting and the people are very nice and funny.
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Work Experience can give you an insight into what you enjoy and
don't enjoy in a working environment. Even a low-level job can give you a
glimpse of the realities of a what a job is really like and even if the you
don't enjoy the work experience it has still been a valuable experience. Also
work experience offers you the chance to talk to people doing the type of work
you might hope to do in the longer term and it is an opportunity to ask useful
questions such as the qualifications the employees needed to reach a certain
status within the company or business.
New Skills and abilities:
You are likely to acquire valuable transferable and practical skills
such as how to deal with people, work in a team, use office equipment and IT
packages. See the skills section of this website www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/skillsmenu.htm
for more information about the skills that you can gain through work
experience, advice on relating them to your career choice and help with using
them in your applications for graduate jobs.
Is Work Experience important?
Most employers will ask about your work experience, and the
benefits you have gained from it, on their application forms. Anything that has
given you experience of life in what employers like to think of as the
"real world" outside university is helpful - if it has some relevance
to their organisation, so much the better, but don't worry if you haven't been
able to obtain such work. Something out of the ordinary can make your
application distinctive and help it to be remembered which is extremely useful
when you are competing with hundreds of other graduates for a job in the
future.
Where will my Work Experience take place?
I worked in two offices: the BT headquarters in London and in
Bristol. I would recommend visiting the London headquarters which is a really
exciting and interesting experience however I had a great time in Bristol as
well. Moreover I found that it was easier in Bristol since the people working
there had more time to explain what they usually do whereas the people in
London were very busy.