What other preparations would the company need to make before receiving work experience students?

What are the advantages to a company of offering a work experience program to business students?

What do you think is the most useful kind of work experience for business students?

What help would you give a student on their first day of work experience?

Which areas of business would you like to have more experience of?

In what ways can business develop close links with the community?

31. Company Directory

Your company is going to be included in an international directory of all the types of businesses operating in your country. You have been asked to write a brief profile of your company for the directory.

● What information you will include about your company

● How the directory would be useful to companies

Appendix: Model Answers to Part Two

Task Sheet 1

A: What is important when selecting applicants for a job or employees for promotion?

I believe it is very important for employers to observe the applicants' or employees' interpersonal skills when they make their selection. We cannot just witness the academy award performance of the applicants or employees. We need to ask questions regarding the applicant's interpersonal relationships with people in other social and civic situations. Most jobs are not performed in isolation and the need to interact is often essential. In fact, most failures in the workplace are not due to lack of technical ability, but rather to shortcomings in interpersonal competence. An individual may be a highly skilled worker. However, if he or she cannot work well with other employees, chances for success are slim. This is especially true in today's world with increasing emphasis being placed on the use of team.

B: What is important when choosing a new supplier?

I think reputation is an important element we have to consider when we choose a new supplier. The supplier we are going to cooperate with should be an establishedpartner who can provide the specialist expertise and applications our business needs. He can back-up his service and his partners' applications with a flexible range of products.

If our supplier enjoys a high reputation, he will guarantee his services, preferably through a service level agreement that sets out availability, performance levels and response times. And will have the financial stability to guarantee the future of his service.

Generally speakingif our business is growing, we need to look for scalability.A suppler with high reputationhas the capability to offer services that can grow as our business expands - without costly reconfiguration or upgrades.