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  • Freelancing: is there a way back to full-time employment?

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends | Some really useful advice for anyone who is considering, or has already established themselves as a freelancer. The good news is that there is flexibility when it comes to your career path. For some freelancers this may be a temporary requirement to ensure a regular income is generated to…

  • Introduction #EveryoneStartsAtZero | Guided Learning for Entrepreneurs and Creatives

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends | Did you see what we posted on Fullback & Friends yesterday? http://fullbackandfriends.com/2015/06/16/everyonestartsatzero-introduction/

  • How Do You Know What to Sell? #EveryoneStartsAtZero

    Guided Learning by Mark on Fullback and Friends | Day 2: Customer Relationships – How Do You Know What to Sell? Ok so you are just starting out or you want to take your business to the next level.  What’s the first thing you need to do? Think of a product to sell; get a logo designed; build a website;…

  • Introduction #EveryoneStartsAtZero

    Guided Learning by Mark on Fullback and Friends |  Day 1: Introducing #EveryoneStartsAtZero. It’s a Guided Learning Conversation Series.  Over the next 5 days we will explore ‘Customer Relationships, Stores (Real & Online) and Paid Ads’ for Entrepreneurs and Creatives. It will also build on lessons from a video I recently found online called ‘Caine’s Arcade’.  If you’ve not watched…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Offices workers ‘should stand for four hours a day’

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends | Hands up who spends a large chunk of their day sat staring at a computer screen, and regularly skips lunch to catch up on emails, because they have rushed back to their desk following on from a two hour meeting. I know I can personally identify with this scenario.…

  • Senior Citizens Learn to Graffiti in Creative Workshop That Aims to Banish Ageist Stereotypes

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends |What an inspiring article. It is never too late in life to be learning new skills and be introduced to new life experiences. Creativity is such an amazing talent and soft skill and can produce fantastic results collaboratively and independently. This article also proves how experiences such as these can…

  • 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,…