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  • Business Circuit – The Global Business Community for Entrepreneurial People

    Kirstin: Sticking to my networking theme from yesterday, Business Circuit is a fantastic networking tool for entrepreneurs. You can follow them on Twitter, and subscribe to their free e-newsletters. Brilliant. http://www.businesscircuit.co.uk/page/index.html

  • Generating leads when no-one answers email

    Kirstin: A question that lots of entrepreneurs ask. Great question, and more importantly really useful responses. Running your own business does not have to be a lonely or scary process when you have brilliant networks like this. http://www.ukmarketingnetwork.co.uk/forum/topics/generating-leads-when-no-one-answers-email

  • UK’s First Ever ‘Power Part Time’ List Unveiled

    Kirstin:  Fantastic news, you can work part-time in challenging and fulfilling roles that can make a difference.  Plus you can have more time to work on new goals/challenges whatever they may be…running your own business, volunteering, sport challenges… http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/news/uka-first-ever-power-part-time-list-unveiled?utm_content=k.burke%40mmu.ac.uk&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Find%20out%20more&utm_campaign=Social%20Enterprise%20UK%20Newsletter%2029%20November%202012content

  • Why Social Enterprise? A Guide for Charities

    Kirstin: A good read that will hopefully inspire charities to successfully grow during 2013. http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/advice-support/resources/why-social-enterprises?utm_content=k.burke%40mmu.ac.uk&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Find%20out%20more&utm_campaign=Social%20Enterprise%20UK%20Newsletter%2029%20November%202012content

  • CV Inspiration

    Kirstin:  & now for my second guilty pleasure CV’s this is such a brilliant idea, and definitely gives job seekers some inspirational ideas to look at their CVs in a completely new way. http://pinterest.com/giveagradago/cv-inspiration/

  • 10 Companies With Fantastic Career Sites and What You Can Learn From Them

    Kirstin: It’s official, I am a website geek!! I spend a large proportion of my working day, navigating students through company career webpages and regularly viewing them myself to help me promote under-graduate placement schemes. This is a really good article. http://www.ere.net/2012/11/20/10-companies-with-fantastic-career-sites-and-what-you-can-learn-from-them/

  • Open for a New Kind of Business: Why we are investing in social enterprises

    Kirstin: This is a must read for anybody passionate about Social Enterprise. This is something that Tyrer Sorrel – http://www.tsconnected.com/ believe in passionately, and we hope that this passion will be contagious with others. http://www.metro.co.uk/news/newsfocus/917475-open-for-a-new-kind-of-business-why-we-are-investing-in-social-enterprises

  • How to Do Well in a Video Interview

    Kirstin: Each year I am noticing that more of our employers are introducing Skype interviews to their recruitment and selection process. This article provides some useful hints and tips that will help boost a candidates confidence. http://theundercoverrecruiter.com/how-to-do-well-in-a-video-interview/

  • Top 10 Things To Do Before You Change Jobs

    Kirstin: I am not seeking a new job at the moment, but if I was I would follow these points. Top 10 Things to Do Before You Change Jobs

  • Rolls-Royce, BT and Kwik-Fit recognised for apprenticeships

    Kirstin:  Fantastic lots of these employers are already doing a great job through their under-graduate and graduate schemes and now they are receiving recognition for their involvement in apprenticeships ‘The Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers list’. http://www2.askgrapevine.com/news/hr/article/2012-11-15-rolls-royce-bt-and-kwik-fit-recognised-for-apprenticeships/