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In at the Deep End

It’s been a week since I joined Giles Insurance Brokers, and a little longer since I posted a blog. There are countless adjectives that I could use to describe a really varied week: exciting, challenging, interesting, surprising, but I think that the best way of summing up my experience so far...

Posted to Undergraduates by Benjamin Hindson on 17-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: saltire, st andrews, London, Giles Insurance, Giles, insurance, benjamin hindson

One week down, and a little the wiser...

Alrighty then, blog post number 2. It's been a week since my last blog post, and a lot has happened, I have learned a bundle of things through my work with SEP, enjoyed several London related experiences, become acclimatised to my local surroundings, recovered an immunity to the catered food produced...

Posted to Undergraduates by Richard Cookson on 16-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: saltire, London, scholar, SEP, Richard, Cookson, Richard Cookson

2. One week completed!

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE I can't believe it has been over a week since I arrived in London! It has flown by in a haze of meetings, meeting new people and discovering London. The first couple of days of GSK were like nothing I had experienced before. GSK house itself is an amazing...

Posted to Undergraduates by Louise Littlefair on 11-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: London, GSK, External Supply, GSK House

Sending good luck and some last minute motivation!

I cannot believe that it's coming up to a year since I headed off for London to start an internship that would change my life! If you've read any of my previous blogs you'll know how much I fell in love with brightsolid Online Publishing as well as London in general! After now completing...

Posted to Undergraduates by Lisa Cameron on 03-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: Motivation, London, Saltire Scholars, Excitement

1. I have arrived!

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 So after 1 car journey, one flight, and one tube journey followed by a very short bus journey - I have arrived at my accommodation for the summer at the University of West London Halls! I am interning with GSK, in their External...

Posted to Undergraduates by Louise Littlefair on 02-Jun-2013
Filed under: Filed under: London, GSK, Paragon Halls, External Supply

6 Days to go...

It’s pretty exciting to know that it is only 5 days till I am heading on a train to Glasgow for the Saltire Foundation Leadership Development Day, 6 days till I fly down to London and 7 days until I start my internship with GSK at their Global Headquarters. As I prepare to embark on this adventure...

Posted to Undergraduates by Andrew Fleming on 27-May-2013
Filed under: Filed under: London, GlaxosmithKline, GSK, 2013 Scholar

Olympic Fever

As always it has been a jam packed couple of weeks here in London. For the past week the pace in London has gone from frenetic to a frenzy with the streets packed with Olympic athletes, representatives and news teams from around the world. Pop-up broadcasting studios , restaurants, outdoor shops, funfairs...

Posted to Undergraduates by Darius Cartier on 27-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: st andrews, London, Giles Insurance, Olympics, London 2012

Suns out and the living is easy.

With the Olympics arriving and it being the last few weeks here in London, life is currently hectic. The surge of people in London is noticeable as the tourist areas, such a Covent Garden and Leicester Square, are teeming with people and the opening ceremony will be this Friday so it is expected that...

Posted to Undergraduates by Katie McGrath on 23-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: alumni, London, Giles Insurance, Olympics, CEO, covent garden, thorpe park

‘We have a dream’ - 1982 Scotland Football team’s world cup theme song.

To set the scene a little, it was the Friday that Andy Murray progressed from his semi-final match, as you can imagine, SDI’s offices have the Saltire everywhere in the form of stickers on the windows and flags too with maps of Scotland. Add to that, this music blaring out and you can only imagine...

Posted to Undergraduates by Janet Abladey on 16-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: SDI, alumni, London, Olympics, Murray, Saltire.

Harry Potter and Singing in the Rain

So it has been two weeks since I wrote a blog, but I was determined to see London/England and have plenty more stories to share and what a busy two weeks it has been. In work the tempo has rapidly increased and all the Giles interns are starting to feel the pressure of the opportunity we have to potentially...

Posted to Undergraduates by Katie McGrath on 12-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: New York, London, Giles Insurance, Musicals, Harry Potter, 2010, CEO

Ian Wright, David Walliams and Katy Perry?

So the halfway point has come and gone and it’s been another busy week here in London. A mad week of meetings with Senior Management, visits to the Giles Birmingham branch, random celebrity sightings, meeting former Saltire Interns and a new burlesque musical! So the week started out much like...

Posted to Undergraduates by Darius Cartier on 09-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: London, Giles, Katy Perry, Musicals, Ian Wright, Burlesque, David Walliams

Culture, Work and a Traumatic Experience

Hi all, As I type we are already into week 4 and nearing the mid-way point in our internships. It’s crazy to think we only have another 4 weeks left and I still have so much left to do. The last week was particular busy with meetings and conferences filling up our time. We attended an E-Brokering...

Posted to Undergraduates by Mathew Grace on 04-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: University of Glasgow, London, Giles Insurance, Underground

Family values, Jazz and Beer.

I’m a firm believer in hard work. If you work long enough and hard enough you will eventually reap the rewards and achieve something great. This is something I have had instilled in me from a very young age, thanks to my family. Coming from a background where both my mother and father are two of...

Posted to Undergraduates by Lisa Cameron on 04-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: jazz, London, brightsolid, Family

Jumping Trains

Another week down, and yet again I find myself sat at my desk with not the faintest idea of how to describe my experiences or articulate my feelings towards them. However the more I sit idly twiddling my thumbs hoping that inspiration will strike like lightning on the Tyne bridge, the more It dawns on...

Posted to Undergraduates by Dara Quane on 03-Jul-2012
Filed under: Filed under: Edinburgh, London, university, train, careerunderground, graduatescheme, retail

There's not much happening in London this summer right?

Wrong! There are Saltire scholars undertaking their internships all around London and there is that little thing, Olympic Games I believe it's called. I'm Janet and welcome to my first blog post! As an athlete, there is not much to be said for my sprinting ability if I am this slow to get off...

Posted to Undergraduates by Janet Abladey on 28-Jun-2012
Filed under: Filed under: SDI, London, Aberdeen, Olympics