Degree to Career - Coaching students into the workplace
June 7, 2008
The Current Student Environment
The life transition from student to employee is significant and escalating in importance. This is fuelled by an oversupply of graduates than there are graduate level roles to fulfil and a greater number of graduates entering the world of work. Additionally a reduction in the amount of personal tuition and pastoral care provided to undergraduates combined with the advent of top up fees means that student’s university selection criteria now involves assessing return on investment. Read more
Mentoring - As simple as passing on advice?
May 29, 2008
Mentoring has become an extremely useful tool for developing high potential people and should be a vital component in any organisation’s Talent Management strategy. Interestingly there are new trends developing in this area. Previously mentoring was largely focused on helping mentees through a particular stage in their career development. This hasn’t changed but nowadays it seems that when mentoring relationships are particularly effective, Read more
Making Connections - The Art of Networking
May 9, 2008
Networking! – What do we really mean? It’s a term used regularly in a professional context as part of business development activities. It’s regarded as a necessity in order to win work, attract new clients, retain existing ones, grow your business and generally be successful, so what is Networking? Read more
