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Young people meet businesses at Opening Doors 2011

Opening Doors is an annual event aiming to bring businesses and young people together.  It’s a chance for organisations to share what it’s like working for them and gives the young people a chance to ask them questions and discuss options and routes into work with them.

Hosted yesterday at the Tottenham Hotspurs football ground I was there helping out as a volunteer.  Our friends over at Silver Skills are the …

Social Media; Do you really need it?

With approximately 200 social networking sites to choose from, you can be sure that they are not going to disappear any time soon.A  However I was at an event recently and I was surprised to find that there are still some people in business who are reluctant to use social media, when I asked why some of the reasons I received included ‘I don’t have time’, ‘my clients won’t be …