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Bette Jarman

Bette Jarman is one of English City’s best kept secrets! She owns and manages the Smart Temps employment agency and she is always there for you when you want to discuss your employment needs.

Bette is very involved with the local community, I’ve heard that this week she will be making a Thanksgiving float and participating in the City’s Thanksgiving parade. Her daughter, Lane Jarman runs the local news agency called The City News, so between them the dynamic duo have a considerable influence over the daily events in English City.

The first time that you meet Bette she will make sure that you register with her agency. Once she has collected information about your interests, goals, skills and qualifications she may even ask you if you would like to be a Smart Temps assistant. If you decide to become an assistant then you will need to complete a short training course (in English), after the course you will be given an assistant’s badge and can help to register new clients when they come to join the Smart Temps agency.

Bette often runs skill seminars and workshops which you can participate in to help to improve your chances of finding a job that will suit you. In these seminars you will do things such as write a resume or learn how to perform well in a job interview, as well as learning about the different kinds of employment available in different industries and the skills and qualifications you will need to work in these industries.

Spending time with Bette Jarman is another great way to practice English at languagelab, so if you haven’t met Bette already why don’t you come along to the Smart Temps agency and register today!

To find out the days and times when Bette can be found in English City click on this link and browse the Languagelab schedule for her name.

Attending a seminar with Bette at Smart Temps employment agency

Languagelab has been named as a solutions provider in Glenn Linden’s latest blog post on real world businesses that use Second Life.   “We define Solution Providers as professional businesses and individuals who work in Second Life with real-world businesses, creating immersive experiences that aim to invite, engage, educate and entertain fellow Residents, as well as their employees and internal audiences.”

Using the Second Life grid to operate a real life business is becoming increasingly common. As the pioneer of language learning in virtual worlds with a real life work force on every continent Languagelab is a working example of how traditional services such as language learning can be taken into the 21st century.

Glenn also said “Languagelab uses the immersive environment of Second Life as part of the learning experience for their unique language classes”.  Languagelab is in good company using the grid as a platform as L’Oreal, the World Bank and Cisco all use the grid to provide services and carry out promotional activities.

There are many reasons to use virtual worlds as a platform for your business; cutting operations costs, hosting international events without leaving a huge carbon footprint and taking advantage of the immersive environment to create a truly engaging experience. Being able to re-create an environment or situation as we can in English City is something that you could never do in real life.  If you live hundreds of miles from the nearest large city that has a multi-cultural population you may never meet anyone to practice your English with but as Languagelab students know, at English City there are lots of native speakers and students from 45 different countries to talk to.

See you soon in English City !