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The Employer's View of Placement
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Name
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Oliver James
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Current Position
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Still doing GNVQ
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Course
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Advanced GNVQ in Information Technology
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College
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Brooklands College, Weybridge
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Placement
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Kalahari UK Ltd – a software house developing, selling and supporting pricing software to banks and brokers in the City of London and world-wide.
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Placement Duties
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Oliver undertook some file/system changes for customers and was able to go out to customer sites with support staff. His main task, however, was the development of a reporting mechanism on who had logged onto the Kalahari Web Site. This involved review of raw data file on URL’s logged onto the site, creation of a spreadsheet and development, test and set up of several macros. He also set up an Access database with tables, queries and report facilities.
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Relevance of GNVQ studies
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Chris Collins, Kalahari Support Manager comments on the skills Oliver was able to bring to the organisation:
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‘Knowledge of Excel and Access were essential to the task. Oliver learnt and built on his existing knowledge during the placement’
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‘Oliver completed all of the project’s objectives or as much as makes no odds. His initiative was such that Oliver was able to undertake many tasks on his own, but knew when it was necessary to take reference/check points.’
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‘Oliver communicated well both with the Support Department and the Managing Director whose original task this project was.’
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‘It was an excellent task completed for which Kalahari did not currently have the resources, and will save a significant amount of time.’
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