Career Inspiration: Television Production
Zoe Russell-Stretten tells Hotcourses about starting out in television production and ending up running her own consultancy business… Name: Zoe Russell-Stretten Job description: Joint Managing Director of Gossip Consultancy Ltd “I run Gossip Consultancy Ltd,  a PR, Event and Location Management firm I established with my best friend in 2008. I previously worked as a freelancer in television, rising to PD (Producer/Director). I graduated from the University of Manchester in 2000 with a BSocSci in Social Policy. My first position was one...

Tips and Traps for the First year
We at Hotcourses have our fair share of university experiences between us, so here are some things we wish we’d read before we started the first year of University First year work ethic Being a student requires more careful time management than at school – as well as having lectures scattered all over your timetable, you will be expected to spend a lot of study hours reading and doing assignments, and you will have to organise all this yourself. Whilst this can seem like an annoying distraction from the important first year business of making friends and generally having a good time, it’ll...