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My passion for business and setting up FaceFlavour

By Monet Davis, management student  I’ve always been passionate about business, with a particular fondness for the marketing aspects. My ultimate aspiration is to launch and run a successful food business. This passion, combined with my desire to make a tangible impact, led me to explore opportunities that could help me achieve my goals. The …

Changing career direction – it can be easier than you think

By Christian Jameson-Warren, Senior Careers Adviser                     Image by GreenCardShow from Pixabay Our brains are prediction-making machines that aren’t always very good at predicting the future. Our brains work continuously to keep us safe and free from pain or discomfort. To do this, they constantly analyse our …

Reflect on your year and unlock your leadership potential

By Amrina Kaur, Employability Officer, Careers team Missed our recent Future Leaders event? No worries! Here are key takeaway learning points that you can use straight away, and experiences of the day shared by Mehr, a MSc Economic Development and Policy Analysis student, and Alexandre, an MSc Drug Discovery student. What was Future Leaders? The …

Interview techniques: STAR and unexpected questions

By Alexandra Ukah, law student As an aspiring lawyer I have been to many interviews and will be having many more in the future, but my interview for the Inner Temple Inns of Court Scholarship is likely to be the most important interview I would ever have. It wasn’t nearly as bad The idea of …

From St Paul’s to the Stockyards – my journey moving to Dallas, Texas

By Jack Saville, UoN graduate I began university in September 2015, and after only a single semester of studying accounting and finance, I decided to switch to business management. The broadness of the course granted me the flexibility to study areas of business that piqued my interest, notably law and economics.  My final months at …