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  • 6 People Who Will Do Amazing Things for Your Career

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  Have you got your career support team sorted?  https://www.themuse.com/advice/6-people-who-will-do-amazing-things-for-your-career

  • How to make an infographic resume for job success

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  Infographic CVs can, if designed well, prove to be very successful.  Not suitable for all sectors, but would be well suited to the creative sector, it obviously helps to be creative too, and can help you showcase your creative talent and personality.  http://careers.theguardian.com/careers-blog/stand-out-applying-work-infographic

  • The Simple Change That Will Make You a More Powerful Networker

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends: Introductions are such an important part of networking, and who would have thought, that just by adding your surname, could transform your intro and make you so much more memorable.  https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-simple-change-that-will-make-you-a-more-powerful-networker

  • 10 Things Only Exceptional Bosses Give Employees

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  Good managers have the ability to bring out the best in their team’s, which includes motivating, inspiring them and making sure they can plan and reach goals that will help a team/service produce great results and successfully meet or in some cases over achieve targets, and help develop the team’s…

  • Social Enterprise Story: Ethical Yarn shop smash target by 64%

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends: Crowdfunder do such amazing things and this is an amazing social enterprise story http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/blog/2013/05/bank-holiday-success-ethical-yarn-shop-smash-target-by-64/?af=frfacebookad

  • How to Find the Guts to Go for Your Career Dreams

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  Most of us have many career plans/ideas running aroung in our heads, but how many of us actually turn these goals into a reality?  Some of us do, and experience all of the highs (as well as the lows) of living the dream.  Not sure where to start?  Here is…

  • Artist Leaves Cute Motivational Sticky Notes On The Train

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  Spotting one of these motivational notes on the morning commute would bring a huge smile to any commuters day.  http://www.boredpanda.com/motivational-sticky-notes-cartoon-cat-october-jones/

  • Mind the gap: don’t let missing work history damage your CV and interview

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  This is a concern that regularly crops up in my 1-2-1s with students.  Employment gaps for a student, are different to an individual who has a longer employment history.   Other reasons for employment gaps are due to too long a CV, in this case it is really important to make sure your…

  • Leaders need to create their own roadmap to boardroom success

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  This is so true, and the way I personally manage this and encourage my colleagues who I line manage, is set up a yearly career plan that you can be working on in the forms of research, using colleagues as mentors, learning experiences outside of work, and networking to start…

  • 3 Ways to Become Truly Irreplaceable at Work

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  To me a great way to make this happen, is to firstly find a career/industry you are genuinely interested, that career spark needs to be there in the first place to allow all the other skills and interpersonal jigsaw pieces join together.  As this article highlights, it is not just about being able to…