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Date: 08 February 2010 23:32:23
It's Durham Uni LGBTA Q week this week. In English that means the LGB society has a week of interesting talks and a few socials. Now, I have to be honest here I normally keep clear of the Association, in my experience groups like that tend to involve over excited gay rights types. However, Q week with it's talks on LGBT issues in the workplace today and the faith talk on Wednesday evening, (7pm in the old DSU shop) amongst other things is something I decided to engage with and support.
Have to say that the LGBT issues in the workplace talk today was not overly inspiring. The LGBTA is sponsered by an consultancy company who sent a couple of peeps up to do a talk on LBT issues in the workplace. In actual fact it was more of a prolonged advert for their company and an attempt to attract high quality graduates. It was interesting to see how this trying to attract the best works in practice. Putting it alongside the post-grad careers lunch I went to last week was also v. interesting. Diversity, work life balance and the importance of networking are all being put out there as important.
Back in the real world I have thrown in a handful of applications over the last week and a half, mainly for teaching jobs in Yorkshire and the North East. I now wait to see what happens.