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The purpose of this communication and Blog Site is to solicit comments from the
members of the FCRE and at the same time test your response to this way of
working.
The comments can be posted, and read by all. Please note that this test ‘forum’
is unprotected, i.e. can be accessed by anyone who locates the address. This
may be changed in the future.
SUITABLE CANDIDATES
The position would suit a person who has a demonstrable interest and
experience in, and ideally understanding of, corporate real estate or a non
cognate activity which could help develop the reach and presence of the
organisation. Suitable candidates will hold, or be pursuing, a relevant
postgraduate degrees or have relevant experience. The desired academic
background of the intern has yet to be specified, as this depends on the subject
and nature of the internship, but could be directly related to the property industry,
or perhaps indirectly related in subjects such as economics, political and social
sciences, architecture or engineering. Clearly this depends on the subject and
nature of the internship.
a) Internship
b) Bursary
A 'bursary', with the appointee working on the chosen subject in their own time,
over an extended period of say 9 - 12 months.
As the scheme will be aligned with FCRE, and not with a specific FCRE member,
its structure and organisation will ideally reflect this. This could be achieved by
having mentors from different FCRE members, or/and a system of placements.
Another possibility is to utilise internet networking tools such as forums, blogs
and Facebook. For example blogs like this could be used by interns to tell the
rest of the federation about their activities, and by the rest of the Federation to
communicate with the interns.
TOPICS
The scheme will require guiding topics. Here are some ideas, subject to any
others you may have:
The intern reviews the agendas of relevant public affairs organisations, such as
government departments, think tanks, NGOs and academics as these bear upon
the interests of business and corporate real estate.
OBJECTIVES
Possibilities include:
writing a report and/or presentation for the rest of the Federation which can be
expanded to form the basis of future workshops, seminars and publications for
members and other stakeholders.
The candidate could be sourced from within FCRE itself – in effect a benefit
gained from membership.
b) Press ‘advertisement’
c) Academic institutions
FCRE could find its interns through relevant academic institutions, such as the
University of Reading's School of Real Estate and Planning, or Oxford Brookes
University's Department of Real Estate and Construction. Indeed the scheme
could align itself with one of these institutions.
The benefit of some of these more sophisticated approaches is that they would
provide FCRE, and its internship, with greater exposure, and hence potentially
generate greater Federation membership interest, and greater public
engagement.
FUNDING
We hope this inspires a constructive discussion via the blog or email and would
welcome your comments by 31 August on any of the points made!