I've just spent most of November in New Zealand so getting back into "work mode" has been proving difficult to say the least, especially as its nice and warm in the southern hemisphere at this time of year.
I had just over 3 weeks off work which is important to me because I like to travel – generally as long as you have your managers permission and give plenty of notice you can have as much time of as you like (obviously within your holiday allowance!) which I've found to be great. I know friends at other companies who sometimes struggle to get more than a couple of weeks off at a time, which isn't the case for Retail IT.
Just before my hols I attended Manchester Careers fair to promote HBOS and the IT scheme in particular. 'Hello' to anybody I met there that’s reading this. Later in December I hope to be helping out at an assessment centre. Its great to be involved behind the scenes in these activities – provides that extra bit of job variety. Believe it or not it also provides opportunities to meet other grads from across HBOS (ie from the different schemes) which is always interesting.
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