Flux Student Profile – Loretta Omari-Asor – Nottingham Trent University

Loretta Omari-Asor was at Flux 2010 as a member of the Nottingham Trent University team.  Studying for a degree in Business Marketing Loretta believes that following her experience at this year’s FLUX Business Challenge she has secured her desired role as Marketing Executive with the UK’s leading global information services organisation.  Read more about Loretta here – Loretta’s profile

Making Sense of Business – A new and fairly unconventional approach to business understanding

Making Sense of Business, a recently published book by Alison Branagan takes a refreshing approach to developing enterprising business skills for both would be entrepreneurs as well as managers.

Read more here -  Making Sense of Business

Bristol University launches employability focused volunteering award

Organised volunteering and work experience has long been a vital companion to university degree courses. Usually it is left to employers to deduce the potential from a list of extracurricular adventures on a graduate’s CV, but now the University of Bristol has launched an award to formalise the achievements of students who devote time to activities outside their courses. Bristol PLuS aims to boost students in an increasingly competitive jobs market by helping them acquire work and life skills alongside academic qualifications.  here

Kingston University is looking for an Entrepreneurship Project Officer

Do you have a passion for entrepreneurship and for enterprising students? Kingston University is looking for an inspirational individual to take up the role of Entrepreneurship Project Officer.  The role will co-ordinate, develop, promote and review entrepreneurship activities across the University. In addition the role mentors and coaches students and alumni designed to develop enterprising attitudes and skills and to start new enterprises.

Find out more here: http://recruitment.kingston.ac.uk/Default.asp?Section=Vacancy&VacID=10/142

Expanding FE Employability and Enterprise Skills Provision

Working Knowledge has entered the Barclays “Take One Small Step” business competition (https://www.takeonesmallsetep.co.uk/Entry/View/2474) which is a national business competition with regional prizes of £50k in cash.  £50,000 would enable us to build capacity to deliver events to 5,000 more students and 1,000 employers this year and then enable those colleges to continue to provide the same every year thereafter.  Read more here

Flux Student Profile – Daniella Means – University of Notttingham

Daniella Means was at Flux 2010 as a member of the University of Nottingham team.  Brought up in Hong Kong and with a family history in branding, Daniella is herself studying management with a view to a career in sports marketing. read more about Daniella here – Daniella’s profile

Language skills improves employability says new survey

A survey by specialist language recruiter, Euro London Appointments has revealed that language skills improve employability. Euro London surveyed 228 employers of whom 86% felt that languages were an important skill set.

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Brussels wants graduates to apply: Employability in the EU

If you’re a British graduate with an interest in languages and policy, you should consider crossing the Channel in the direction of Brussels, the capital of Belgium. At a time when job opportunities for graduates appear bleak in the UK, the European Union wants new recruits to work in the “capital” of Europe where there are scores of other young people and plenty of cafes and restaurants, not to mention large quantities of good beer and chocolate as well as delicious mussels and snails.  Read the whole article in the Independent here

Prizes galore at ‘The Mix’

Winner's statuette

You’ve been labelled as a ‘NEET’*. You are one of 895,000 16-24 year olds in the same situation**. You don’t do ‘education’ or ‘training’ and you haven’t got a job.  Pretty depressing, probably. That’s where ‘The Mix’ comes in – a programme designed to help young people appreciate their talents, improve their skills and build their confidence. How does it work? The approach is not complicated; give young people something unexpected to do, watch curiosity overcome reluctance, help them with technical support when they need it and let their natural talents emerge.

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Flux Student Profile – Ole Fjelberg – QMUC

Ole Fjelberg was at Flux 2010 as a member of the Queen Mary, University of London team. Originally from Norway, Ole is making a big splash in the UK not only as the founder of the Queen Mary Investment Club but as the man behind the UK franchise of One Piece a new clothing phenomenon from Norway.  Read more about Ole here -  Ole’s profile