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3 Things We Can Learn from the Now Extinct Bramble Cay Melomys
This past week saw the formal recognition of the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys, a ‘tiny island rodent’1 from a small island near Papua New Guinea. Not only was the Bramble Cay melomys a relatable little guy (I mean who can’t relate to a nocturnal rodent that...
Crystals for your Career
Crystals – what could these shiny, pretty rocks possibly have to do with your career? Before we begin, let me start by saying that although crystals have proved helpful to me throughout my career by helping me remain mindful and focused, it’s a personal preference and...
How a Careers Event Led to a Job: An Interview with Art Honeysett
We sat down with Art Honeysett winner of the 2018 Law Interview Challenge top prize, a micro-internship with Colin Biggers & Paisley Lawyers. Art reflects on the career-shaping experience as his mirco-internship lead to a paralegal role. So tell us a little...
5 Steps to Finding Great Love (Or a Great Job)
It’s almost Valentine’s Day, the most romantic day of the year! So many people are scrambling around looking for a date without realising that finding love can be awfully similar to finding that dream job. 1. Start with the man in the mirror The best way to start a...
Top 5 Soft Skills Needed to Help You Land Your Graduate Role
It’s that time of year again when many employers are opening their graduate programs for 2020! With some companies reporting to receive anything between 10,000 to 20,000 applications for under a 1000 graduate roles, having excellent academic results simply isn’t...
Tips on How to Balance Creative Projects with Your Mental Health
You might be loving your creative degree and feeling lucky to be pursuing the things you love, but design can also be as stressful and all-consuming as any other degree. Here are some things I wish I knew about time management, creative anxieties and mental health...
Be the Boo You Want to See in the World
Boo, beloved Pomeranian and potentially cutest dog to ever walk the face of the earth, passed away this week. Renowned for his general adorableness and dog-related antics, Boo was an easy example of making the most of natural talent to forge a career. In honour of his...
Give Yourself a Fresh Start
Whether you are in your first or final year, with a new session about to begin it’s time for a fresh start and a chance for you to re-set your approach to university. With more financial skin in the game than ever before, how can you make the most of your time at...
Thinking of Working Overseas? 7 Reasons to Consider Beginning Your Career in Dubai
Dubai is a city that dreams big. From its beginnings as a small fishing village, over the last half century, Dubai has seen unparalleled growth. It is home to some highly inspirational projects: the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, and the world-famous...
Why You Need To Break Up With Your Career
Breakups suck, there’s no denying it; whether you’ve been dumped, or have to end things when it just isn’t working out. But I’m here to tell you that as brutal as it can be, getting out of a bad relationship will always be worth your while. Despite all the tears and...
Don’t Stop Me Now: Career Advice from Freddie Mercury and Queen
Ok, so maybe the advice is not straight from the man himself, but as I sat watching Bohemian Rhapsody over the Christmas break, all I could think about was the uncanny similarities between mine and Freddie Mercury's career. Here's what I have learnt: Start small,...
Your Life is a Mess but You’re Not a Failure
It’s the last day of the first week of January, and chance are those New Year’s resolutions are starting to wear a little thin. But even if it looks like your life is turning into a bit of a mess and everything’s feeling a bit too hectic, that doesn’t mean you’re...
3 Resolutions to Make if You Want to Start Getting Ahead in the New Year
It’s New Year’s Eve, and as we say goodbye to 2018 it’s time to prepare for the annual announcements of #newyearnewme that are due to flood Instagram feeds, alongside the pressure to make wild pronouncements of how you’ll finally turn your life around in 2019. But, as...
4 Easy Ways to Boost Your Career from the Beach
It can be hard to get motivated to start working on your career skills when the sun is shining down outside and the beach is calling your name. But lucky for you, using your summer to work on your employability doesn’t have to be as difficult as you might think – and...
Make 2019 Your Career Year
We’ve all been there: starting the New Year bright-eyed and on a mission to get fit and eat healthier. But by mid-February, you’ve found yourself parked on the couch, three hours deep into a Netflix binge session with a family-size bag of chips in hand. Or perhaps you...
The Best Gift You Can Give Your Career This Christmas
Tis the season of giving, so why not take the opportunity to give something back to your career this Christmas? Ensuring your career is healthy and successful takes more than just skill building, experience, and hard work. It also means looking after your mental...
5 Reasons Christmas is a Great Time for a Job Search
It may not feel like it, but the end of the year is actually a great time to start looking for a job. Whether it’s a change in career, a chance to gain new experience, or taking your first foray into the working world, December is a good time to get stuck in and...
Fantastic Truths (About Fulfilment) and Where to Find Them
The new Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald film has taken the magical world by storm, so of course, we couldn’t help but pull some valuable lessons from it! For a franchise that is so baffling in its complexity, you’d be surprised that there are some vital...
Career Success: It’s All Down to Timing
Last week Caitlin Kunkel (@KunkelTron) posted a Twitter thread that populated the trending page for its fifteen minutes of fame. In it, she told the story of how she started her career at 22, looking at graduate schools for writing while she was teaching English in...
Key Ingredient in Maximising Your Productivity
Productivity in the workplace is extremely important. The quantity and quality of our contribution to the organisations we work for, the companies we run, and/or the clients we do business with, are two of the most important factors in establishing career success....
Julia Landauer: Don’t Let Expectations and Stereotypes Hold You Back
It can be easy to fall into a career that everyone expects you to follow, but that doesn’t necessarily make for a fulfilling work life. Opportunity and passion can come from the most unexpected places, and while the pursuit may be difficult, following what makes you...
How Mentorship Can Fuel Your Career Journey
Career journeys: we’ve all heard about our career journeys or pathways, but the reality is we don’t normally realise when we’re actually on one until we spend the time thinking back on how we got to where we are. For me, I’ve come to realise that I wouldn’t be where I...
Stan Lee: How Hard Work and Passion Can Make You a Cultural Icon
Renowned for the contributions he made to the world of comics and his many cameos in the popular Marvel movie franchises in his later years of life, Stan Lee’s passing last week left many around the world reeling.The early daysBorn in December 1922 as Stan Lieber, he...
UX and Your Online Presence: 3 Strategies for Digital Success
User experience (UX) is a multidisciplinary concept that often refers to web, but more expansively can refer to any human focused strategy that shapes pleasurable journeys between product and user.Consider yourself as your main product and your industry as your user....