Dragons’ Den Day

I’m a big fan of the BBC’s Dragons’ Den tele­vi­sion pro­gramme; so when I was asked to be a “Dragon” myself, on a panel judging pitches from local school kids in Brad­ford; I jumped at the chance. Even more so as I didn’t have to use my own money!

Industry Day

Inter­views in Pro­gress
Tomor­row morn­ing I’m tak­ing part in some ‘Mock Inter­views’ which form part of an ‘Industry Day’ at a local high school; the Appleton Academy, in Brad­ford.
The whole idea is to help these kids get some real exper­i­ence of job inter­view situ­ations by expos­ing them to some of the poten­tial ques­tions and feedback […]

Stir Crazy? Are You Nuts?

My reg­u­lar blog read­ers and Twit­ter fol­low­ers will know that over the last couple of weeks or so I’ve been house­bound as far as work is con­cerned because of the atro­cious weather con­di­tions which in them­selves have been exacer­bated by the com­bin­a­tion of ungrit­ted roads and sub-zero tem­per­at­ures.
Sub­sequently I have now […]

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

It’s been snow­ing
Unless you live in a cave without a TV, inter­net con­nec­tion or even a win­dow; then you’ll have noticed that the UK is cur­rently covered in a blanket of snow which is caus­ing major dis­rup­tion to the work­ing pop­u­lous and eco­nomic dam­age to the tune of £600 mil­lion a day accord­ing to the […]

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