…before someone wins £365!
You’ve got one week left to win our 1st Birthday giveaway. Whoever forwards our birthday email to the most people, and copies in birthday@ratemyplacement.co.uk, will win £365! Simple as that! Competition closes at midnight on Monday 31st March.
RateMyPlacement was today featured in an article on Enterprise Nation! Enterprise Nation is a website that helps you start and grow your own business at home, just like we have done with RateMyPlacement!
The website is an excellent free resource for anyone interested in starting their own business from home, and contains a fantastic range of advice and information to help people like you successfully set up and run a business from home.
Click here to read the article and an interview with Oliver
Oliver has also had a guest appearance in one of the Enterprise Nation pod casts focused around his experiences of setting up RateMyPlacement from home - click here to listen to Episode 19: The Young Ones!
1 year, or 12 months, or 52 weeks, or 365 days (well 366 this year). A lot can happen in a year and this is certainly true for www.RateMyPlacement.co.uk and the 4 of us who run it.
In a year we have seen the launch of RateMyPlacement to Loughborough students where we hounded our friends to leave reviews; it has spread virally around most of the universities in the UK to the point where 22,000 unique visitors have been on the site. In September 2007 we welcomed on board our first company and we now have 15, 8 of whom have come on in the last 3 months. Cause to celebrate? We thought so…
We asked you in a poll what we should do to celebrate, and a landslide 68% of you said that we should go out for a big night in London. That is exactly what we did! OK, so the night was marred for one member of RateMyPlacement for a loss on penalties for a certain North London football team, however the we managed to quickly re-group and drink through this. A few bars and a burger in Paddington, a few more in Carnaby Street and onto a Soho club… A good night all round. Oh and we all got up for work in the morning…
Lets hope our second year is as much of a surprise as our first year…
You don’t have to give the RateMyPlacement team much of an excuse to dust off the suit and attend an awards ceremony at a swanky London venue so we naturally jumped at the chance of attending the National Council for Work Experience (NCWE) Awards. The awards celebrate the placement and internship employers who are deemed by the judges to offer the best experience to students, something which is clearly close to our heart too.
The event kicked off at Midday with a champagne reception at the Cafe Royal just off Regents Street. Ben and Ali won the game of "Paper, Rock, Scissors" so were lucky enough to get the RateMyPlacement tickets; we also met up with Kevin Storrie from Jagex, who we had nominated for an award due to their consistantly good reviews. The reception was followed by a 3 course meal (a bruschetta, followed by lamb shank with raspberry and chocolate tart for desert; I would give the food a 7/10), and finally the awards themselves. Notable winners were IBM Extreme Blue in the over 250 employees - short term placements (0-3 months) category, Virgin Airlines in the Over 250 employees - long term placements (4-12 months) category and overall winners were Shetland Seafood Auctions.
RateMyPlacement has agreed to offer all nominees in the Under 10 employees category a presence on the website so keep checking back soon to see when they come on board.
Monday 12th March 2007 - a memorable day in the short history of RateMyPlacement - the day that www.ratemyplacement.co.uk was launched. Today is officially our first birthday!
Initially the website was just for the benefit of our friends and coursemates at Loughborough University, but we have come a long way since then! Today, students, universities and employers nationwide are now benefitting from RateMyPlacement.
So, to celebrate the occasion, we are going to reward one lucky student with a pound for every day that we’ve been up and running! That’s right, we’re giving away £365!
