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French-Property.com, market leader for French properties

It’s been now more than six months that I am an intern in this company, which I am going to narrate the history, the strategy and the projects:
French-Property.com was created in October 1995, by Mrs Patricia Monk, who with the apparition and developpement of Internet identified a niche, and created a Website to allow …

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Missions and Working Methods at French-Property.com

My fifth article about my internship in England will deal with the missions that I have here at my company French-Property.com, and working methods that I have discovered.
First of all, I will do a quick presentation of the business I’ve been working in for more than five months now (a future article will deal …

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Corporate Culture in UK

That’s it; half of my internship is over! It’s been a little more than 4 months since I started my internship in Southend-on-Sea, England, in the company French-Property.com. How time flies!
So after all this time, I can tell you about the corporate culture in England, which is really different, in so many ways, from …

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Integration : my life in England, Southend-on-Sea !

I came across the Channel 3 months and a half ago; I now feel like home here: England is a very welcoming country and I quickly adapted to the British way of life.
Of course, the culture shock that many of my friends have known (China, India, South Africa,…) was not very hard, because UK …

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Great Britain, an island, and so much more!

It’s been two months now since I‘m in United Kingdom, and I think that a bit of general culture on this ancient monarchy is required!
As known as “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, this constitutional monarchy is composed of four constituent nations: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; its population is 62 …

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My first weeks in UK, in the company IFP Ltd.!

I’m arrived on June 11th in England, in the town of Southend-on-Sea, located on the sea at about fifty kilometres to the east of London.
The trip went very well (Eurosatr from Lille to Lodon, and then another train to Southend). I settled in quickly after finding my accomodation in a very quiet street, near …

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A step back to my internship

This intership has been a very rewarding experience in many ways. I think this eight month placement is a real strength in our training at Iteem. It is a really good way to learn a lot and also to be profitable and to bring a real additional value to the company.

I had the possibility …

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My mission: create a new common range of products for the group

Hi everybody,
As I already described where I live and presented where I work, I’m now going to talk about my mission within Kingfisher.
I’m working in the quality team so I obviously deal everyday with quality issues. But that’s not my main concern. In addition to the quality side, some value engineers of the team …

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Welcome home !

Good Morning EveryBody !!
This post is my last about my experience in England. Indeed I’m back in France now, I catch up with all my friends, my close relatives and my classmate who are back in France too. It’s very nice to see everyone again.  So it’s time to do a feedback about this …

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The railway sector in UK

As I explained couple of months ago, I’m working to Brush Traction which is a locomotive manufacturer. To have a better understanding of this company, today I going to explain the background and the trends of this sector.
First, for the history, the UK railway network is the oldest in the world, with the world’s …

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