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Enterprise North West and Startacus collaborate with a group of students from NWRC to create Week Gen-C, a part- employability, part-career and part-entrepreneurship focused digital project & channel The pandemic has affected us all but young people have been particularly hard hit by the impact it has had on both their education and employment prospects. In a bid to mitigate this, and thro...
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Thinking about starting a business degree? Good prep is key - these tips will help you start off on the right foot... If your daydreams of becoming a wildly successful entrepreneur have led you straight to the gates of education, then taking the time to properly prepare yourself for the road ahead is one of the best ways to make the most out of your time as a student. Business degrees can help...
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Week Gen-C is a part-employability, part-career and part-entrepreneurship focused digital event that's been created by young people, for young people in the NW of NI The pandemic has affected us all but young people have been particularly hard hit by the impact it has had on both their education and employment prospects. In a bid to mitigate this, two North-West NI based organisations, Enterpr...
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  Week Gen-C is a week long calendar of events focused on entrepreneurship and careers, aimed at helping young people affected by the covid pandemic in the North West of NI The pandemic has brought many challenges, in particular for young people as they deal with the uncertainties of its impact on their job prospects and career aspirations. Now, two North-West NI based organisations have...
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Innovative new platform, TryTech is launched aiming to provide young people with the skills, knowledge and support to secure knowledge-based roles in tech startups Fab news via OneTech, an organisation connecting London’s underrepresented communities with opportunities in tech startups. They have just launched TryTech, a new online platform to help young people, aged 18-24, facing mu...
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The lowdown on the launch of Hyfenate, a new platform with a focus on multi-hypenate roles and a new way of job matching An interesting new platform has just launched for those looking for the next step in their career. The platform, Hyfenate, is at the forefront of defining a new career model centred on multipotentialites, meaning someone who might be a web developer-graphic designer as well a...
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If you're thinking about self-employment and working for yourself, here are a few of the sectors that might be worth considering There are some people out there who are just not made for working in an office for other people. If you think that you will want to be your own boss, there are several industries that you can ultimately aim for. Here are some of the areas that you should think about.Web...
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Handshake! The startup that's on a mission to democratise opportunity & help all students discover meaningful careers... We go to school, we go to college or university, we get a job with our shiny new qualifications. That’s how it’s supposed to go. It’s how we’re led to believe it will go, anyway. The reality, of course, is that it isn’t as simple as that. It is...
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Networking, mentoring and career progression made easy...Guidance through your career is not something that is necessarily readily available to a lot of people. We’ve probably all heard stories about school career advisers giving the most absurd ‘advice’, and if our first exposure to some form of mentorship is going to be that bad, it only increases the need for good mentorship l...
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Apprenticeship startup WhiteHat raises $16m Series A led by Index Ventures, signs up 250 employers and prepares to expand its alternative to University. WhiteHat, a tech startup building an outstanding alternative to university through apprenticeships, has today announced a $16m fundraise and substantial growth, with over 250 employers including BP, Facebook, Salesforce, Publicis, Santander, Ka...
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