Kirstin Burke
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Introduction #EveryoneStartsAtZero | Guided Learning for Entrepreneurs and Creatives
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How to Convince an Employer to Take a Chance on You (and Ignore the More Qualified Candidates)
Kirstin on Fullback and Friends | This article is highly appropriate to recent or soon to be graduates, who are just about to make the first tenative steps towards their first full-time sector specific position. You have the passion, enthusiasm and genuine interest in the role/profession/sector, but have limited directly related work experience. For some…
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CV writing: use role descriptions to paint a picture of your job history
Kirstin on Fullback and Friends | Factual story telling is so important when it comes to CV’s, cover letters and application forms. When you provide concise, supporting evidence which also includes measureable data that can help benchmark an experience, makes the task of reviewing CVs, so much simpler for the hiring manager. This can also…
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Charity careers: how to get a job in the third sector
Kirstin on Fullback and Friends | The third sector (also know as not-for-profit organisations or registered charities), is a sector that I am a huge fan of, and regularly promote as an amazing sector for under-graduates and graduates to experience, as part of their career development whilst at university, in the forms of volunteering, internships,…
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Offices workers ‘should stand for four hours a day’
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Win-Win! | It’s not just organisations who benefit from volunteers – get the most out of giving your time.
Kirstin on Fullback and Friends | If you are already actively involved in volunteering, I am sure you do not need much convincing as to how amazing being a volunteer can be. Not only are you making an impact on people’s lives and communities, but you also grow in skills and confidence, plus your personal…
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How to avoid the top six most common job interview mistakes
Kirstin on Fullback and Friends | For most of our final year students, exams have now been completed, and dissertations submitted, and the joys of graduation is waiting just around the corner. What follows is the exciting graduate career journey. For some, this journey began back in Autumn, with career fairs, online applications, online testing,…
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Keep workers with the four steps to happiness
Kirstin on Fullback and Friends | Do you work for a company who supports ’employee happiness’ or are you a business owner who is pro ’employee happiness’. Having a positive and successful career and workplace is so simple, and the key ingredients for most of us is job/team satisfaction, and to have supportive senior management.…
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Design Council | Design Methods Step 1: Discover
Kirstin on Fullback and Friends It is now Day 2 of the Summer Term at university, which is a term of so many mixed emotions for our creative final year graduates. Dissertations, end of year shows, networking, portfolio careers, freelancing, becoming fully fledged designers, graduation oh, the list goes on and on. For graduates, and…