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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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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
One of the reasons I became a commissioner for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills is that I like Fleetwood Mac. Well, sort of. Their songs resonated with me, and became one of the defining sounds of my generation. …
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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