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Do you feel “intellectual phoniness” or as if you’ve “lucked out” in the workplace and don’t deserve the position you’re in? That’s exactly what clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Ime ...

Social media is the best platform to build your personal brand as it’s free, vast, and has immense potential to connect you to a global audience. You never know, if you put in the time and effort, you could just land your dream career or foster some valuable connections. As devel ...

A survey by Prospects on the effects of COVID19 on graduate recruitment found that, of final-year university students, 26% had lost their work placement/internship, 29% had lost their job offer and 28% had had their job offer deferred or cancelled, it’s no wonder that this year ...

Job rejection is something that we’ve all encountered, but knowing this doesn’t make it any easier, especially if you are really ready for a career move. However, there are a few ways that you can make the most of your job rejections so that you can both bounce back and land th ...

To-Do lists are a great way to help you increase your productivity for the day, especially if you're in a career where you have to manage your own time or where your work and home life seep into one another.

An informational interview is a 15-20 minute one-to-one meeting with someone who can give you information about an industry, a job, an organisation or a career you are interested in. They’ll help you gain valuable insight and information that can help you plot out a career path t ...

There was a time, a long time ago, when social media was a vision that we were yet to realise. Then came Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and so many more social media platforms. Some were able to withstand the tide of time, and others are now a fading memory.

Working while in university isn’t easy. In fact, it’s a juggling task. If your parents are capable of footing the bill for your expenses then you don’t need a job, but for most of us, you may need to take a job at uni.

In The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood imagines her life as a fig tree, with each fig representing a career and future alternatives. She dreams of being a poet, a professor, an editor, travelling, an Olympian, or a housewife, but the more than she doesn’t make her mind up which fig and branch to ...

With graduation on the horizon, there’s no time like your final year to make the most of university. Before you know it, it will be summer, you will have graduated and you’ll be a proper functioning adult, don’t you know.

With a plethora of league tables out there, from national and international ones to independent guides, it can feel more than overwhelming having to understand all their intricacies and why they even exist.

As it's that time of year when students are deciding what degrees they might like to invest the next three years in, there are many you might not think possible, from grape growing and wine making, to embroidery and blacksmithing. Here are some that piqued our fancy, and may pique yours too:

Due primarily to globalisation, the rise of the internet, technological advances, and an increasing and aging population, there’ll be plenty of future jobs that don’t already exist yet that you might be interested to learn more about. Here are a few ideas of what might be out there:

It's hard juggling university work with earning enough money to pay for your rent and stay afloat, however here are some that you can do in your spare time. They are all freelance jobs, great for your CV as you'll gain lots of soft skills and perhaps portfolio pieces, while you might also get ...

With only a few weeks left until the end of your internship, here are few suggestions to make sure that you end on a positive note.

Having been at school for sixteen years, it’s very hard to get out of the ways in which you were taught and you learn when coming to uni.  

For all of you trawling through university prospectuses at the moment, there’s always a course section showing you about the topics you’ll learn and what topics you can choose to take further.

Every year in September you may have heard would-be uni goers discussing Fresher’s week and wondered what the hell is it and what carnage goes on at those parties and social events, especially with the new stories and antics that come with it in our laps. 

You’re halfway through your internship and, well, it’s not exactly going the way you hoped when you filled in your application form six months ago. You’re not excited about coming into work every day, in fact, you can barely wake up at 7 am when your alarm goes off and sitting at a desk ...

So you've got that internship you dreamed of all lined up, but what should you do to get the most out of it? The more you get out of it the more connections you'll make and more likely you'll get hired from the company in the future, and the more skills and experience you'll take away from th ...

If you’re starting an internship this summer it’s important to make a good impression on your first day. Start the internship as you mean to go on, with an early night with plenty of sleep, and eat a good breakfast in the morning.

Adding value to your internship means that you'll take more from it when you leave. You'll learn more skills and hopefully taking the initiative means that the business will be more likely to employ you or contact you when they've got a job vacancy that's suitable by showing yoursel ...

You’ve bagged that all-important internship and are raring to go. The nerves are slowly settling in and all the scenarios in how things might go wrong are coming into your mind. Here’s how you can make your big first day run smoothly before you even set foot in the office. 

When you started uni you probably didn’t think further than graduation, and now it’s come around faster than you could ever have imagined.

Does starting your exam make you nervous? If so, it's a good idea to walk through entering the exam the night before, understanding how you are going to approach your exam paper and imagining yourself entering the exam hall to calm your nerves. Understanding what to expect will calm your nerv ...

However hard you’ve revised, and how well you know the material, there’s always the possibility that you’ll get nervous. Nervousness is all part and parcel of exams. A certain amount of stress keeps us motivated to revise and be organised, however when we are anxious we produce a hormon ...

If you’ve got this far and have found yourself not really revising over these last few months you might be starting to panic. Here are a few tips to help you cram some of that information in before it’s too late!