This seventeen-lesson course offers information advice and guidance on career management, helping you to actively plan and develop your career

Remember to manage your life as well as your career.

A good work life balance is not always easy to achieve Can we have it all –career, family, social life? Or do we have to make choices to keep a good balance?

Is working from home the answer? We review the implications for your career.

Maybe entrepreneurship is the solution for you. Let’s take a look at the skills, characteristics, attributes and behaviours of successful entrepreneurs

Then we consider what a career is, and how the role of the contemporary worker has changed beyond all recognition, with the demise of the job for life, and the rise of contracting out.

This explains why you need a career management plan. If you are going on a journey, it is easier to get to your destination if you know where that is. Otherwise “Life is what happens to you while you are busy doing other things “a line used by John Lennon in “Beautiful Boy “, may be what happens to you.

We offer guidance on the career management process, to help you take control and ensure life doesn’t just happen to you.

And finally, we consider whether you need to be a graduate to be successful in life. The answer is No, by the way!!

Key skills, Quick Facts

These 20 short articles each introduce you to a Key skill that you will find incredibly useful in the world of business. They are bite size, so will not take up too much of your time

In the world of finance, we look at business costs, costing and pricing, budgeting and managing cash flow. We look at personal finance and budgeting too.

We also look at strategic thinking, public speaking, communication skills, leadership job search and CV skills, and making a first impression.

Take a moment from your busy day to reflect on some of these disparate issues and think about how you can put this new-found knowledge to good use in your career

How to… Series

These 10 short articles will enable you to acquire and hone invaluable business skills and techniques.

There are some things you could really do with knowing how to do, but they’re not built into anything you learnt at school or college.

Do you know how to mind map, do a SWOT analysis, prepare an effective presentation, play the thinking skills game, or develop your personal brand?

I thought not!

Now’s your chance to learn these precious and valuable skills, and others too. They are written up in short articles, bite size. They won’t take up a big chunk of your day, in fact just a few minutes.

You may want to go back and re-read them again the next day, they are so important to your career development.