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Expert Women: going from 'imposter' to presenter
I have a confession to make. My name is Jassel Majevadia, and I'm an imposter. Or at least, I think I am. In recent weeks I have encountered a strange phenomenon, both widespread and yet commonly unrecognised: imposter syndrome. Imposter …
Why we need to be ambitious on skills
Looking back over the last five years, it’s good to see that employers have learnt an important lesson from the previous recession – and that’s the value of their staff. Back in the early 1990s, a relatively shallow recession led …
Why being young and unemployed is a Game of Thrones
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Amy Burnett, Posted on:
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Career development, Skills and training, Youth employment
Winter is here. The time when opportunities for young people were rich as summerwine is over, and many are struggling to get a solid grip on the first rung of the job ladder. Granted, it’s not an evil incestuous duo …
Thanks for the break
Everyone remembers their first break. Whether it was a Saturday job doing the paper round, a week or two of work experience at your friend’s dad’s office or a part-time after-school shindig, everyone remembers their first break. It was a …
Not just Disney and animé: Gemma Roberts's story
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Gemma Roberts, Posted on:
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Categories:
Career development, Investment stories, Skills and training, Youth employment
Although as a child I watched just about every piece of animation that you could imagine, my interest in it creatively didn't really occur to me until much later. I was always artistic and very interested in drawing and the …
Youth employment: from Fleetwood Mac to D:Ream
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Iqbal Wahhab, Posted on:
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Categories:
Career development, Career guidance, Youth employment
...started rising well before the crash, as early as the height of the boom in 2004. This suggests that even if the economy grows rapidly over the next few years,...
How a logistics placement helped me transition to a civilian career
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Kevin Walton, Posted on:
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Categories:
Career development, Investment, Investment stories, Skills and training
It was a real challenge for me leaving my 18 year career in the Royal Air Force. I enjoy working with, and leading, groups of people and my preference was to work in some kind of operations / project management …
Ensuring Apprenticeships remain rigorous
Ensuring Apprenticeships Remain Rigorous as Their Popularity Starts to Rise: Why Employer/Training Provider Dialogue Must Not Get Lost in Translation There is no doubt that vocational studies as a pathway to employment are becoming ever more prestigious. Recent news that …
From work experience to full time job - Sam Lomas's story
After leaving school at 16, I enrolled onto a Level 3 Extended Diploma in Construction at Chelmsford College. During these two years I made many attempts to gain work experience but all fell through. Towards the end of my second …
How to get developers to use your open data
“If you build it, they will come!” A famous line from the film, Field of Dreams, about a man who builds a baseball diamond in his corn field for the Chicago Black Sox team from the past to play on. …
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