April Blog by the Technical Placement Students

This month has been very exciting for us placement students in the technical department. Alongside ongoing daily projects that keep us busy on a regular occasion, we attended the CMS Discovery Course, taught by our CEO. The CMS Discovery Course looked into our brand new product that we are promoting and has already proven to be very successful. It was really interesting to see what the company has achieved so far in terms of the brand new e-commerce and web solution products, and we're looking forward to being assigned work on projects related to them.

ProspectSoft is expanding rapidly and are incorporating more products into the company's portfolio and us placement students are able to learn vast amounts of knowledge! Being in the technical team, we need to learn how to use every product well, find the best solutions to deploy and enhance them and explore all the possibilities our clients could benefit from. It is great to get to expand our personal knowledge as well as getting new work opportunities and develop a more in-depth range of skills on my placement year.

We’re excited about all the new projects that are coming our way and looking forward to the challenge of working on something new and exciting......Time to get back to work now!!

Veronica Cucuiat and Christopher Penrose - Assistant Solution Developer

ProspectSoft Ltd wins 2010 National Council Work Experience Award

ProspectSoft has been named as one of the best places to get an internship after winning an award at the National Council for Work Experience (NCWE) Awards 2010 on Monday.

ProspectSoft beat off five other businesses to win the crown in the '10-250 employees' category. The winners were announced on Monday, where myself (Lorna) and the Marketing Manager, Patrick Johnson attended the NCWE Awards Ceremony 2010 at Merchants Taylors Hall in London. The whole event was truly remarkable and was a delight to attend! There was a real emphasis on how critical work experience is to both the student and company, and it really gave me a true insight into how beneficial it will be to my career that I have taken a year out of university to work at ProspectSoft.

Gordon McKenzie, director for the office for graduate opportunities for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills presented 23 NCWE Awards across 11 categories, rewarding companies that have demonstrated exceptional work placements, which make a real impact to both the undergraduate student and the business.

Heather Collier, director of the NCWE comments: “We’re now in the seventh year of the awards and their increasing popularity reflects the growing importance of work experience in allowing students to develop skills while providing companies a talent pool for recruitment. ProspectSoft demonstrated that the scheme is really working for the company in terms of long-term hires that are recruited from the programme. With more companies competing than ever before, they have done exceptionally well.”

Only in January did ProspectSoft win the “Best Small to Medium Sized Enterprise” Award at the RateMyPlacement Ceremony, so this was truely great news for the company!!!

March Blog

Hi All, this month I (Gemma) am taking my turn to write the blog.

The last month has proven to be very busy, with preparation for our March Business Growth workshops and several other marketing campaigns that are currently been worked on. With the Business Growth workshop just around the corner, it is great feeling to see that our hard work is really paying off.

January and February has also seen the start of our placement recruitment and everyone here is really excited to see some fresh new faces. The assessment days have been great fun and it is really great to meet everyone. As well as the placement recruitment, we have seen the return of last year’s placement’s, they have already settled in nicely and are playing an important part within ProspectSoft family.

Personally I have been working really hard building some great relationships with our partners who sell our software and providing general support. As well as our business growth workshop’s, the resellers have been busy preparing for there’s and the whole team has been working hard to support our partners. This has been good fun and something that stands me in good stead for the rest of my career.

This month has been packed with social nights, from cinema visits to nights out on the town and with a poker night next Friday at the Sales directors House which I am very much looking forward to.

My placement year has whizzed past and reflecting back on my time here so far, I am amazed at how much I have learnt and all the new challenges I have had the opportunity to encounter. Not only have I gained some invaluable experience but I am having lots of fun along the way.

January Blog

Sorry for the delay in the ProspectSoft Placement Blog, we hope that you’re having a great start to 2010! Last month, three members of the ProspectSoft team including myself; a current Marketing Placement student, the HR Manager and Managing Director attended the National Placement & Internship Award Ceremony. The Ceremony was put on by RateMyPlacement on the 21st of January at Oxford Brookes University and was a huge success as we won the ‘Best Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Award!’

Being a current placement, it was a great opportunity to go back to my university and mingle with placement students at other companies and to reunite with the Oxford Brookes Business Placement Team, who offered me great support when seeking a placement. Other attendees at the ceremony included the top UK universities and other leading recruiters.

ProspectSoft won the award due to the efforts myself and also Vicki Watmough; a current placement student in Channel Management put into gathering a case study of material demonstrating how great the ProspectSoft Placement scheme is! It was great to see that our efforts paid off! The judging panel also looked at the reviews submitted by past ProspectSoft Students on the RateMyPlacement website, which are also worth a read!