Journal:

Week 6: This week was a very progressive and interesting week. With regards to my FMP I am progressing very well and have completed most of the work for each of the subjects, now it is just a question of formatting it in the right way and evaluating it as well producing things such as my executive summary and other business related pages. One most interesting things that happened was the world retail congress in which different groups presented new retail concepts involving  technology, while the presentations themselves were interesting the groups received a lot of questions from Sir Philip Green regarding costs and how the concept would work in store. I liked one of the group’s ideas on using custom styling service for people and I stood up and asked a question and pledged my support for the idea after the group had been a little disheartened by the criticism from the retailers.  Sir Phillip liked my response and singled me out at being a good speaker and had proposition for the FRA students in creating a new group for the world retail congress so I am now a part of that as Sir Phillip has stated about “the blonde boy had a good point”. So that is very exciting I was concerned that it may interfere with my FMP work but this is not case as I will be focusing on congress over the summer. I also attend careers day and got a lot of positive feedback from that event and got some good contacts which is important as I am very keen on getting a BAA role so soon as possible after college, so overall I had a very successful and progressive week in many ways.