What other jobs can you do in the aviation sector?
Earlier this week we took you through the steps required to be able to work as a pilot on a commercial passenger line. As we saw, it’s a pretty gruelling path to qualification, requiring thousands of hours in the cockpit … … read more
Tagged careers, jobs, work, flying, air traffic controller, flight attendant
How do you become an airline pilot?
Ask kids what they want to do when they grow up, and once you weed out the “celebrity” careers like Premiership footballer or pop star, and all the (sadly) unfeasible careers like pirate or ninja, you’ll quite probably find that … … read more
What does working in the public sector mean?
If you keep an eye on the news, you’ll have noticed that a relatively frequent theme for stories is battles between public sector workers and the government. Generally these stories involve certain groups of public sector workers facing reductions in … … read more
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Ever thought about a career in the railway industry?
Once upon a time it was every little boy’s dream to become a train driver when they grew up. Trains were seen as exciting, fun and glamorous. But then the world changed, and rail travel lost a little of its … … read more
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Alternative careers in healthcare: speech therapist
Building on the profiles of alternative healthcare careers we’ve been blogging about over the last couple of weeks–all part of our plan to help you good folks see that if you’re interested in helping people but don’t think you’d be … … read more
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Alternative careers in healthcare: emergency calls handler
A week or so ago we started looking at careers in the healthcare sector that fall outside of the most famous ones–your doctors and your nurses especially–for the benefit of the many young people out there who want to work … … read more
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Careers ideas: less well-known healthcare roles
The healthcare sector has been a highly popular career choice in the UK for many, many decades now. Although NHS hospitals and clinics suffer staffing shortages, most of the time this is due to management issues or a lack of … … read more
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The two main types of #volunteering #work
In our last blog post we had a look at the different places you can visit to find out about volunteering opportunities where you live. Today we’re going to take a slightly different approach to the same overall question of … … read more
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Tagged careers, skills, volunteering, charity work, fundraising
#Careers #ideas: #forensics
Last week on our blog we posted a piece on how TV shows can give people career ambitions that are based on unrealistic portrayals of the job that they’ve decided they want to have. While we mentioned doctors and lawyers … … read more
Can I base my #careers #ideas on #TV?
If there’s one thing that careers advisors and admissions tutors for university courses hate, it’s the following. During the course of either reading a student’s personal statement or interviewing a student, said student puts forward their career or study motivation … … read more
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