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What I hope to achieve from the Placement - Week One

No your eyes do not deceive you, that is a picture of me with a cute, fluffy alpaca and you may be wondering what this guy has to do with my blog but all will be revealed!

So this week, I secured a place on the Bangor Business School Self Employment Placement! I cannot wait to get started on researching my own business idea and fulfil my dream of running my own alpaca trekking centre and cafe.
For this week, I wanted to talk about some of the research I've been doing and what I hope to achieve.

This placement is an amazing opportunity for me to have a greater understanding of the area of business i'm interested in and throw myself into the world of business!

I'm pretty new to the whole 'business' world, so I hope the placement will help me to develop a wider set of skills, such as researching, report writing and time management, that I can use not only in my self employment, but also in my studies here at Bangor University.
One of my main aims I hope to achieve through completing the placement, is that I have a more practical and developed concept of my business idea, that will help me start my own business in the future.

This week I Researched other businesses, that have a similar structure to my idea, and familiarised myself with looking into company accounts through the 'Companies House', which was something I'd never done before!
I also researched the types of loans that were available and I couldn't believe how many options were  out there! My research helped me to really look at what I wanted my business to be, what services to provide and what kind of loans I'll need.

























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