A lot can change in 12 months. Just ask the Tory and Lib Dem MPs who are today ‘celebrating’ a year of collaboration. Or the football supporters of Queen’s Park Rangers and Lincoln City who are reflecting on both a fantastic and dismal 12 months respectively. When it comes to the graduate job picture there’s been some occasional positive shifts but to an extent it’s as you were. The challenges are still the same. The things on the minds of the 2011 grads will be uncannily similar to the 2010 grads.

At least that’s what I’m anticipating and why I’m very happy to be able to draw your attention again to a series of short video clips of previous Brunel grads expressing their Continue reading →

Shake your day up a bit and take 5 minutes to watch the following video clip of a PR professional giving an insight into their industry and how to break in to it. And do it even if you’ve no interest in PR. Why? Well, this video is a perfect illustration of a couple of career hunting facts whatever your career aspirations.

• Fact 1: careers advisers don’t know everything. In fact this careers adviser would happily admit that on top of what I might have to tell you there’s nothing like going to someone doing that  job and Continue reading →