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An Amazing End to an Amazing Summer

Well this blog is definitely going to be a long one...... This week has been so amazing and the HR team really went out of their way to make my leaving and my 21st a memory I will never forget! Tuesday saw my 21st birthday and after being sent some cup cakes from home as a little surprise I took them...

Posted to Undergraduates by Natalie Foy on 10-Sep-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Human Resource, DHL Supply Chain, Singapore, final week

Just call me Miss Marple!

After a fantastic week in Singapore once again it really will be sad to say farewell next week. To think that yesterday was my final dress down Friday was kind of scary! This week saw a lot of my projects coming to completion. I had a con-call with a number of finance officers and HR people from all...

Posted to Undergraduates by Natalie Foy on 04-Sep-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Human Resource, DHL Supply Chain, Singapore

Kuala Lumpur: "muddy confluence"

This weekend was absolutely brilliant! Woke up early on Saturday morning to head for the coach that would transport me to the Malaysian capital city of Kuala Lumpur which literally means "muddy confluence". When I arrived it was anything but! I traveled on an executive coach liner to Baraja...

Posted to Undergraduates by Natalie Foy on 30-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: kuala lumpur, Human Resource, DHL Supply Chain

Cupcakes, Shawls & Opportunities

This week has been pretty fantastic - maybe even more so than the previous ones! My data analysis project really progressed this week after the long awaited meeting with finance. My team leader and I were able to sit down, discuss our intentions and ideas with Kent who then confirmed my analysis was...

Posted to Undergraduates by Natalie Foy on 27-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Human Resource, DHL Supply Chain, Singapore

"Please sir, may I have some more?!"

This week really has been jam packed full of stories and adventures to tell when I arrive back home in September! The weekend ended last week with a trip to the Singapore Science Centre where my friend Iris was caged up and had bolts of electricity sent directly through the cage; she lived though so...

Posted to Undergraduates by Natalie Foy on 22-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Human Resource, DHL Supply Chain, Singapore

One conclusion over this week....DHL rocks!

This has been such an amazing week I honestly don't know where to begin to blog about! I have completed my first project of mapping out the variances between the two software systems in use in the DHL offices. I had to gather data on both of the linking terms and find the difference to determine...

Posted to Undergraduates by Natalie Foy on 07-Aug-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Human Resource, DHL Supply Chain, Singapore

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No....Its my time flying by ;)

Well another week in the gorgeous Singapore has come to an end! This week has been really exciting in work with plenty of projects and research to keep me busy! I have been continuing my work with the benchmarking analysis which hit a high note today and made me feel like I had finally made my mark ...

Posted to Undergraduates by Natalie Foy on 30-Jul-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Human Resource, DHL Supply Chain, Singapore

Howdy from the Lone Star State

Hi there!! A bit late to the blogosphere thanks to some technical difficulties but here it is… a little bit about my first fortnight in Houston, Texas where I'm doing an internship with Wood Group, an oil and gas services company. This is essentially my first exposure to international business...

Posted to Undergraduates by David Campbell on 27-Jul-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Saltire Foundation, Human Resource, Houston WoodGroup

Half way through week two already!!!!!

Its completely unbelievable that I am now half way through my second week already. The time is going too fast... This week has been great; I recieved my project list on Monday which lists 5 projects in different areas of the department which is brilliant. Liberty Mutual is veryu accomodating in the sense...

Posted to Undergraduates by Lynn Aitchison on 21-Jul-2010
Filed under: Filed under: internship, Saltire Foundation, Boston, Human Resource, Culture, week 2, business development, Marketing, Scottish, Scots, Project, cambridge, Liberty Mutual

Adventures of my first day in Singapore

Hey everyone! Well I finally arrived in Singapore last night after having been delayed on Friday night due to wind down at Heathrow causing me to miss my connection :( It turned out to be a good thing though as I had forgotten to pack a hair dryer and my apartment has none! Bullet dodged there :-D Seeing...

Posted to Undergraduates by Natalie Foy on 19-Jul-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Human Resource, Asia-Pacific, DHL Supply Chain, Singapore

African heat

I have been in Krakow now less than 72 hours, but already I have fallen in love with this beautiful city! Only a couple of days ago I was standing in Edinburgh airport with my fellow Saltire intern Katie, sheepishly paying my excess luggage fine; jumper on, cold and wet, with broken brolly in hand and...

Posted to Undergraduates by Christel McCombie on 12-Jul-2010
Filed under: Filed under: Saltire Foundation, Human Resource, week 1, Tesco

The Open Doors of the Lone Star State

We arrived in Houston, Texas on Saturday, to be welcomed by unbelievable heat and freeways glittering with Lone Star State flags. It was immediately obvious that our two months were not only going to be scorching hot but also drenched with Texan culture! We met Simon and Jim, two of the Saltire fellows...

Posted to Undergraduates by Nina Spencer on 17-Jul-2009
Filed under: Filed under: Human Resource, Culture, Houston