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What Does Covid-19 Mean For Graduates and Students in 2020 and Beyond?
Almost a third of graduate jobs have been cancelled or deferred due to the corona virus pandemic Covid-19 will reshape the employment market and nothing illustrates this better than its immediate impact on graduate jobs in 2020, with close to a third of graduate jobs...
Trusting Yourself: By Andi Lewis Your Horizon Coach
Your Horizon unlocks potential through classroom webinars sharing knowledge and understanding, and one to one coaching on action plans, your strengths and maximising your potential. A key to this is trusting yourself and developing yourself continuously. There’s no...
Top Tips For 2020 Graduates: By Jeff Greenidge Experienced executive
2020 quickly turned into a challenging year for everyone for one reason or another. For students graduating in 2020 there will be numerous challenges. While reflecting on 2020 and the challenges being faced by graduates, we came up with our 14 top tips: Stay...
Self-Belief and Maximising Your Potential: By Andi Lewis Your Horizon Coach
Your Horizon career coaches are here to unlock a student and graduates potential by challenging discussion, identifying goals and assisting in both the development of and the drive towards targeted action plans. Self- belief is key in maximising your potential and...
11 Habits Of Highly Resilient People: By Andi Lewis Your Horizon Coach
Resilience is less about ‘positive thinking’ & less about fearlessness; it is more about your perseverance and courage. Both — challenging times and times of joy — are important lessons of life. They are like mentors, placing the right circumstances at the right...
Reality check from an industry insider (Members-only)
Going into a new role as a graduate, the reality is you have little experience, you are unlikely to impact the bottom line in terms of business performance for some time and you are at the beginning of your career. Often graduates take one of two approaches to this –...
Q & A with Mick Hood, HR Director Liberty Steel: Part 5 How to impress in your first role (Members-only)
My view is that the assessment centre is just the start of a graduate’s journey, and their first year in the job role is crucial to their ongoing success and career development. In the fifth part of this series in which I am interviewing Mick Hood, HR Director with...
Q & A with Mick Hood, HR Director Liberty Steel: Part 4 Preparing for an assessment centre
In the fourth in this series of blog posts I ask Mick Hood, HR Director with Liberty Steel (formerly Tata Steel Europe), for more advice on assessment centres. Mick has been involved in the running of graduate schemes for Times Top 100 employers for over ten years....
Your skills and qualifications
I have had over 25 years of personal learning; of senior level strategic leadership and management in large complex organisations within the public, commercial and not for profit sectors in UK and wider Europe. My first summer job was as a cleaner in my old school....
Climb the right ladder! (Members-only)
It’s better to be at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb that at the top of one you don’t! In the early stages of your career you have the opportunity to ‘test the water’ and find out what you like and dislike. A common theme speaking to many executives and...
Q & A with Mick Hood, HR Director Liberty Steel: Part 3 Assessment centre skills
TATA steel run an apprenticeship programme and a graduate scheme which sits in the Times Top 100. In the third in this series of blog posts I ask Mick Hood, HR Director with Liberty Steel (formerly Tata Steel Europe): What do you look for in a graduate, be it in HR,...
Q & A with Mick Hood, HR Director Liberty Steel: Part 2 The secret of career progression
In the second of this series of blog posts in which I'm interviewing Mick Hood, HR Director with Liberty Steel (formerly Tata Steel Europe), I ask him: “You work with executives from different disciplines, across different organisations, what are the commonalities...
Interview with Jenny Patrickson, Managing Director, Active IQ: Part 2 Preparation is everything!
In the second part of my interview with Jenny Patrickson, Managing Director, Active IQ we talked about her experience as a graduate and what she learned from it. (If you missed part one you can read that here.) 3. What was your first graduate interview like?...
Joining a graduate scheme (Members-only)
I applied to the Corus graduate scheme, formally British Steel and now TATA Steel Europe, as it had an excellent reputation for its management training, coupled with sponsorship to attain chartered status and an employment law diploma. The sector was also interesting,...
Deciding what you want to do and knowing how to achieve it
Deciding what I wanted to do: Leaving university and thinking about this, I discovered I didn’t know what I would really enjoy doing. I had a degree in Business and HR Management. I enjoyed the HR, marketing, finance and economics aspects of the degree, but had...
Interview with Jenny Patrickson, Managing Director, Active IQ: Part 1 An unconventional career path
In this first part of my interview with Jenny Patrickson, Managing Director, Active IQ I asked her about the career path she took to get to where she is today and what she has learned from it. 1. Tell us about your first entry level role, what was it and what did you...
Accountancy is present in all sectors and organisations (Members-only)
In accountancy, you get the choice of sector, whether in practice or industry, absolutely every sector needs accountants, and so you can either specialise or move around. Each sector has its different areas of focus, regulations, accounting treatments, sales cycles....
Q & A with Mick Hood, HR Director Liberty Steel: Part 6 How Your Horizon can help you
In the sixth and final part of my interview with Mick Hood, HR Director with Liberty Steel (formerly Tata Steel Europe), I asked him what he thought about our offering here at New Horizon. As you know, Your Horizon seeks to give graduates support before, during and...
A Life in Accounts (Members-only)
I fell into accountancy, mainly because my father was an accountant. That fact had ensured I choose anything but accountancy for university, but after a year on an architecture course feeling like a fish out of water, not strong enough at art or poetry (yes poetry), I...
University to work: Jeff’s journey into employment
Careers Guidance I left school at a time when the expectation of a Grammar School student in Essex was either to go to University or work in the City of London. I really didn’t want to do either and wanted to be a journalist but at that time there was no real careers...
Q & A with Mick Hood, HR Director Liberty Steel: Part 1 My first role
I recently had the opportunity to interview Mick Hood, HR Director with Liberty Steel (formerly Tata Steel Europe). For the first in this series of blog posts, I asked him: "Tell us about your first entry level role, what was it and what did you learn from it?" My...
University to work: Jonathan’s journey into employment
I had a couple of jobs while at university, these could be described as typical ‘student jobs’. One was a store assistant in a high street sport shop and the other was an administration assistant working for the NHS. Both paid minimum wage and provided me with a much...