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TIM:
Hi, Laura – could you spare a few minutes to talk about the work placement you did last
summer? I’m thinking of doing one myself …
LAURA:
Hi, Tim. Sure.
TIM:
Didn’t you do yours at an environmental services company?
LAURA:
That’s right … It’s only a very small company and they needed someone to produce a
company brochure, and I wanted to get some business experience because I’m interested
in a career in occupational psychology in a business environment. It was good because I
had overall responsibility for the project.
TIM:
What kind of skills do you think you developed on the placement? I mean, apart from the
ones you already had … Did you have to do all the artwork for the brochure, the layout and
everything?
LAURA:
We hired the services of a professional photographer for that. I did have to use my IT skills
to a certain extent because I cut and pasted text from marketing leaflets, but that didn’t
involve anything I hadn’t done before.
TIM:
