Even though many of our graduates will have progressed in their careers since completing a case study, they are still of interest to students who wish to gain an understanding of the world of work.

I manage Agency Accounts for clients worldwide who send groups of students to the UK for educational visits, and look for new ways for my company to grow, diversify, and improve.

Get in, do lots, go home. That's about it, I think ;-)

Variety, autonomy, trying out new ideas.

Customers!

Fell into it. Landed on my feet, though...

My teaching qualifications and business experience.

Everything from building sheds to rebuilding motorcycle engines.

Teaching English and IT in various parts of the world.

Providing unemployment & redundancy advice & skills workshops for SEEDA.

Finally getting around to doing my MA.

Give the amount of things that go "Bang" round here, probably in orbit.

Do a job-relevant degree, in a field where there is a blindingly evident and long-term skills shortage, forget anything else unless you want to spend the remainder of your working life considering the unfairness of life whilst flipping burgers..

Put your university social life in 11th position out of 10, unless you
a) *really* want to spend years after graduation in debt, living with your parents, and scraping a living working behind a bar (or building sheds) or
b) your social life allows you to network with future employers or
c) improve your real-life, non social media face-to-face people skills