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School Sixth Form

After taking your GCSEs and completing Year 11 you might be thinking of continuing your education by staying on at school. Lots of schools have sixth forms and you don't have to have attended the school in Year 11 in order to join it.

It pays to get a HEADstart in Business

Katy talks about her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as a HEADstart student.

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An Interview with a Bolton Social Worker

Name: Jason Hart

Job Title: Social Worker

Directorate: working for Adult Services (Older Peoples Social Work Team)

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Modelling Career Profile: Laura Foster - In The Frame

Laura Foster remembers how she got into modelling when she was still at school and what it was like juggling studies with photo shoots.

Knowsley Council & PCT � Health and Social Care

What sort of job roles do we have? we have lots of roles in health and social care including:

Bolton is a Great Place in Which to Live and Work.

Come on in... Meet the Family

Bolton is a distinctive and diverse town, just 20 minutes north of Manchester, with great countryside, great characters and a down-to-earth approach to life that makes people feel welcome and at home.

Working in the Public Sector

The public sector is large, diverse and includes a wide range of services and activities at both local and national level.

Working in Health and Social Care � A Good Choice?

What sort of work is it?

Working in health and social care is all about making a difference to people’s lives, whether you are working with children and families to improve life chances or with vulnerable adults who find life difficult because of disability, substance abuse, mental heath problems or frailty associated with aging.

Public Sector Accountancy Training

Training as an accountant in the public services could be the best move you make after graduating, especially if you are looking for a diverse, rewarding career which gives you the opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives.

Twenty Something Entrepreneurs

While many people dream of being the boss in their forties or fifties, City & Guilds has awarded qualifications to a whole host of twentysomethings who went on to make the dream a reality much earlier on. Here the awarding body profiles two success stories who reckon that vocational courses are the ideal preparation for setting up your own start-up.

What is a Research Scientist?

Smaart Girls talk to Yemisi Solanke, a BSc Hons in Applied Biology and Pharmacology Graduate from North London, about her role as a Research Scientist.

BT Profile - Rhiannon Warburton

Rhiannon Warburton, a BT project manager from Oswestry, Shropshire, speaks to Smaart Girls about her career and why choosing a BT apprenticeship was such a smart move.

Why Choose a Career as an Accounting Technician?

The career opportunities in accounting are limitless, almost every organisation throughout the UK requires accounting support of some kind. In larger organisations and accountancy practices you can specialise in areas such as: audit, tax, corporate finance, insolvency or forensic accounting.

Profiles - Carillion Construction Training

The most common image of the Construction Industry is of the slightly weathered, burley chap laying bricks on a new build site, or similarly constructing a roof or completing the finishing touches with the internal and external decoration. Headed and managed by an all male team.

Ikhlaq-Sulaman---BT-Apprentice

Ikhlaq Sulaman, a 23 year old a BT Customer Service Technician from Doncaster, talks to Smaart Talent about his job and why he chose BT’s apprenticeship scheme.

Commercial Training Schemes with BDO Stoy Hayward

After completing her A Levels, Anisa Mistry joined BDO Stoy Hayward’s Commercial Training Scheme in July 2003. So what made her choose an early start to her career over three years at university?

Profile - Aftab Sarwar

Why did Aftab Sarwar decide to study for his AAT with PKF?

I wasn’t sure I wanted to go to university, but I was sure that I wanted to go into accountancy. So the quickest route was to do AAT and get the work experience as well.

Breaking into Journalism... By Leila Warren

With any creative industry, there will always be hot competition for jobs and even courses that may lead onto to such jobs.

Journalism is certainly no exception to this….

Journalism consistently features in surveys of what jobs graduates would most like to do. So I have in put together a range of advice…from courses that you may want to embark on, to getting those creative juices flowing.

PKF online profile

A friendly working environment is a key part of the professional approach you will find at PKF, one of the UK’s top ten firms of accountants and business advisers. The firm consists of around 1,300 partners and staff operating from over 25 offices around the country, working for a client base consisting mainly of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

A career profile of an actuary

The rewarding and challenging nature of an actuarial career was first revealed to me some years ago, between sips of coffee with an actuary who was then a director at New Ireland Assurance. After some further investigation of my own, I discovered that (among other things) actuaries use their extensive mathematical repertoire to quantify and control financial and actuarial risk. For someone who enjoys applying maths and problem solving, this was an enticing attraction. Becoming an actuary does require commitment and perseverance, but just remember that what you reap is what you sow!