Category: College and Careers
The Impotence of Proofreading
There are any number of easy-to-miss errors to be made in essays, ranging from “pubic-sector workers” to “casual relationships” between statistical variables. Missing punctuation can be fatal – thankfully, only figuratively – when you write “I ran out of snacks, so I ate my sons” or “When shall we eat Grandma?” The odd slip of […]
How to Hold Down a Job whilst at Uni
Studying and working at the same time is a strenuous task and one that needs quite a lot of time management skills and organising to successfully pull off. It is important that you only take on what you can manage, don’t exhaust yourself. Trying to study for exams and complete papers whilst waiting on tables […]
Contracting after Graduation
Contracting is an employment engagement where the contractor is self-employed and typically works from home. Contracting allows the individual to schedule their work hours on a day-to-day basis, thereby providing a better work-life balance. A study by Elance, the online freelance platform, across over 1,000 graduates in the UK, showed that over 85% of graduates […]
The Mentoring Program at the University of Greenwich
I studied accounting and finance half a generation ago and one reason perhaps, why I’m not working in that industry today is simply that I wasn’t prepared for the industry. The University of Greenwich has something quite different and special happening as I recently watched in the YouTube video below. Take a look: The University […]
