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How recognising your strengths can help your career
Increasingly, employers are using strengths-based interviews to recruit new staff. But recognising your strengths can do more than help you to succeed in a job interview. By knowing what your strengths are, you can look for ways and opportunities, to...
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Student Blog: Starting a Virtual Placement!
COVID-19 has changed the way we all work currently, and the ongoing impact for 2020-21 will continue to challenge us all to adjust and adapt. Starting a placement (or new job of any kind) is daunting at the best of...
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Needed! Urgently! Your leadership skills!
Why the post Covid-19 world will need your leadership skills I’ve been thinking for some time about writing a blog to help students write in a more compelling way about their leadership skills. “Leadership” as a required core skill is...
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Supporting Disabled Students: Asking for additional support in the recruitment process
We are living in challenging and uncertain times, but for some students who have a long term health condition, a physical or an invisible disability such as dyslexia, ADHD, depression and anxiety, this can then create some additional concerns when...
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Liz Bingham OBE speaks on climbing walls, networking and understanding business meetings
Liz Bingham OBE Maisie Goodson (Psychology final year) shares some key advice given by Liz Bingham OBE, our special guest speaker on the Sprint Professional Development programme for female undergraduates. Liz talks about her career journey, the advice she would...
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Parimala Shivaprasad speaks to our Sprint delegates on following your dreams and setting up a Social Enterprise
Our guest blogger, Maisie Goodson, shares highlights from our guest speaker, Parimala Shivaprasad who recently qualified as Doctor of Chemical Engineering while developing a social enterprise start-up. Parimala grew up in Bangalore, India and performed at a high level at...
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Emma Allen, Executive Director at UBS speaks to our Sprint delegates about building her career
Maisie Goodson, Psychology final year describes over the next few blogs the career journeys and excellent advice given by our guest speakers at Sprint - a 4 day personal development programme for female undergraduates. Emma Allen, an Executive Director and...
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How confident would you feel to disclose a mental health condition to an employer?
Research shows that 1 in 4 people experience a mental health condition in any given year. In the last few years there has been more publicity and a rise in awareness of mental health thanks in part to more celebrities...