Career Inspiration: Newspaper Reporter
 Case Study: Newspaper Reporter Work experience placements paid off in the end for Nadia Gilani, who finally landed her dream career in press journalism. Name: Nadia Gilani Job description: Reporter for South London Press and Wimbledon Post ‘I first did work experience when I was 18 at The Daily Jang, an Urdu/English bilingual paper, as I was familiar with the title and interested in Pakistani news. So, I phoned up and asked if I could go in. I did loads of cold calling in a bid to get work experience and I got myself published as soon as I could. You...

Considering college? Dos and don’ts
Psychology, beauty therapy, carpentry, BTEC, A level, NVQ. When it comes to college courses it’s hard to know where to start. Unfortunately, we can’t tell you what to study at sixth form or college. We can however give you some advice for applying for college courses, in the hope of alleviating some of that stress. Our college and sixth form area allows you to search and browse college courses and providers. Before that though, there are some things to consider. We like to keep it simple here at Hotcourses so we’ve come up with some dos and don’ts for...