Don’t panic! It’s never too late to start your job-hunt
If you’ve been putting off your graduate job-hunt because you don’t know where to begin and you think it is too late, now is the time to take stock and get started. It’s never easy to grapple with life’s big decisions. Sometimes even minor, everyday decisions such as ‘where shall we go on Friday night?’, [...]
I Want to be a Journalist, But I Can’t Afford to Work for Free
“I want to be a journalist, but I can’t afford to work for free.” A simple sentence, but it has taken me four years to find the words and confidence to write it. I am a final year journalism student at the London College of Fashion, and in my fourth year of unpaid internships. I [...]
Career Advice on becoming an Entrepreneur by Sir Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson founded Virgin in 1970 – it started off as a mail order record retailer. Today the Virgin Group is made up of around 200 companies spanning 30 countries with involvements in leisure, travel, tourism, mobile, broadband, TV, radio, music festivals, finance, health and more. Not bad for a guy who left school [...]
Work experience: Money-saving tips
If you are looking for work experience based in London – as many internships are – but the cost of living is putting you off, don’t give up. Huma Qureshi has some money-saving tips……… London: the big smoke, the city of dreams, the home of golden opportunities … oh, all right then, who are we [...]
Gordon Brown accused over one in five young out of work
David Cameron today accused Gordon Brown of failing Britain’s youth after figures were released showing one in five young people is now out of work. The pair clashed at Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons with youth unemployment now at an unprecedented level. Among those aged 16 to 24 the number looking for work, has [...]