Careers Inspiration: Publishing
Kathryn tells us how her work experience in publishing has added to her CV and also proved a personally valuable experience… Name: Kathryn Langley Work Experience: Editorial and marketing in publishing company ‘My careers advisors were always telling me the importance of doing work experience, how it looks good to employers and is something impressive to put on your CV. What I wasn’t expecting was how useful it was to me. I’d known for a while that I wanted to work in publishing so when an opportunity arose for work experience with a...

Kitchen Confidence
Reignite your love affair with home cooking this year… From cheery Anthony Worrall Thompson to sultry Nigella Lawson, celebrity cooks are helping create a renaissance in home cooking. Interestingly, neither Anthony  nor Nigella trained as chefs, creating  their careers from a simple passion for good food. Our relationship with food is changing. There has been a slow shift away from ready-meal mania: between 1998 and 2002 the demand for ready meals rose by 29 per cent across Europe and 44 per cent in the UK alone. We now consider the amount of packaging...