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Business Insight Games 2013

by Richard Marshall

Interactive, employer-led sessions, solve typical business challenges, enhancing commercial, team and interpersonal skills in the process.

Commercial awareness is a highly desired quality by employers in today’s competitive job market, but how do you demonstrate your commercial awareness to an employer?

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The Business Insight Games are a series of interactive, employer-led sessions, enabling students to experience and solve typical business challenges; enhancing their commercial, team and interpersonal skills in the process.  You will have the opportunity to take part in a highly interactive exercise, similar to those used by many high profile companies at assessment centres. Each session will also include advice from employers on how to demonstrate and further develop commercial skills. 

Sessions will take place from 13:15 – 15:30 every Wednesday from 9 January 2013 to 20 March 2013.

Booking opens 2 weeks prior to the workshop date - please see JobsLive for further details.

Programme of Business Insight Games Spring 2013

Wednesday 23 January - 'Business Insights interactive game' - Deloitte - book from 09/01/13 

Wednesday 30 January - 'Powering the Olympics' - UK Power Networks - booking from 16/01/13

Wednesday 6 February - 'Ice Cream' - CSC - book from 23/01/13 

Wednesday 13 February - 'Agile Practices in Software Development' - Thoughworks - book from 30/01/13 

Wednesday 20 February - 'Case Study Workshop' - Ernst & Young - book from 06/02/13 

Wednesday 27 February - 'Assessment Centres' - CIMA - book from 13/02/13 

Wednesday 6 March - 'Integrated Supply & Trading Game' - BP -book from 20/02/13 

Wednesday 13 March - 'The Bank Job' - Teach First - booking from 27/02/13

Wednesday 20 March - 'Effective team working and communication' - Thales - book from 06/03/13 

How to book a place?

To book please come to the Careers Service Receptions (level 5 Sherfield building) to pay a £10 deposit (you MUST have the exact amount in the form of a single £10 note). We regret that we cannot accept bookings in any other way. If there are any problems, or you are not based at the South Kensington Campus, please call us 020 7594 8024.

Numbers are strictly limited to ensure the quality of each session. You are advised to sign up as early as possible.