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• On The Guardian: Interns: All Work, No Pay

  

  Humiliated, harassed, expected to do 12-hour days, often for nothing – an intern’s lot is seldom a happy one. We find out what it’s like to have no status at... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• On BBC: Jobless Youth Are ‘public Health Time Bomb’

  

  It’s not exactly news that the youth of today have been done up like kippers. This’ll show them – it seems the stress of being a “Neet” (not in employment,... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Week in Joblessness – BONUS: Preparing to Be Jobful

  

  Published 15/11/2013 on GoThinkBig My contract is all over the floor. I’m sitting cross-legged in the middle of the mess, trying to look zen, like I know where... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• NEW VIDEO: How to Be Jobless – The Journey to Jobfulness

  I start my new job on Monday, but I couldn’t skip off without throwing this together. This is the journey thus far, and a sneak peek of the one to come. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Guardian Careers Tips on Answering the £22,000 – £30,000 a Year (ish, I...

  

  God, I hate this question. It’s so loaded. I feel like I’ve gone up to someone I’m attracted to in a bar and they’ve said, “So, why do you want to date me?” WHA... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Best “No, I Will Not Work for Free” Email EVER

  

  As interns, students or starters-out, we thought we had the monopoly on being exploited, undervalued and taken for a ride. But it seems we aspiring journos are... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Your Bad Internship Experiences

  

  Dearest HTBJ readers,I started this blog because I was miserable in my jobless, hopeless existence, and I realised no one in the real world gave a damn about... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Insincerity: the Language of Cover Letters

  

  Last week, HTBJ reader Frides O’Neill sent me this fantastic post on the many problems with cover letters, “an exercise in out-bullshitting your competitors”… I... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• POSITION: UNPAID – A Short Documentary on the Plight of Unpaid Interns

  Last week, award-winning filmmakers Low Card sent me their short film shedding light on the world of the unpaid intern. Featuring the folks from Inspiring... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• Reporting from The Employment Bunker: Local Journalism is Like a Low-paid...

  

  About a month ago, a local journalist approached me and asked to contribute to HTBJ. As a jobbing journalist, what could he want to say? Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Week in Joblessness (20): THE FINALE…The Five Stages of Getting Everything Yo...

  

  Published 26/10/2013 on GoThinkBigStupid slow ATM machine. How long has my card been in there? A minute? Forty minutes? GIVE ME MONEY. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• On GoThinkBig: Work Experience and Internships: What You THINK They’re Like...

  

  GoThinkBig’s Stevie Martin gives us the perfect rundown of those dashed expectations when you get that work experience placement… Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 CAREER, HUMOR, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Week in Joblessness (19): Fibbing on Your CV…clever

  

  Published 18/10/2013 on GoThinkBig We have a brand new recruit in the Pyjarmy this week, a Mr Dennis O’Riordan. You may have read about him in the news, the... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Week in Joblessness (18): An Interview with Alan Rusbridger for an Actual Rea...

  

  Published 13/8/2013 on GoThinkBigI’m a big believer in preparation, and nothing needs more careful preparation than a massive disappointment. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Week in Joblessness (17): How to Be Jobless and Sick

  

  Published 8/10/2013 on GoThinkBig Happy Tuesday, readers. To be polite to you, I’m not going to put a sneeze every seventh word, a cough every fifth word, or a... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• [VIDEO] Alan Watts – What If Money Were No Object?

  A bit of Monday inspiration from this short recorded lecture of British philosopher and writer Alan Watts (1915-1973).“What do you desire?…then you do that,... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• [VIDEO] Black Swan Intern Demands to Be Paid

  The debate rages on re: unpaid internships…are they valuable experience or pure exploitation? Eric Glatt, an unpaid intern on the set of “Black Swan,” is riskin... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• On Guardian Careers: How to Decode Job Adverts

  

  It doesn’t matter how right you are for a job if you can’t get your brilliance across. Freelance journalist Martin Williams has foraged a few top tips for The... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• [VIDEO] Millennials: We Suck and We’re Sorry

  In this wonderful video from Can Opener Studio, Millennials ‘apologise’ for being so utterly rubbish.They also go over all the reasons Baby Boomers are clearly... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION

• On Wannabe Hacks: ‘I Was Told I Could Get a Job If I Worked for Free – I Was...

  

  A fantastic resource for aspiring journos, Wannabe Hacks delves into the highs and lows of trying to break into the industry. In this post, George Berridge... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2013 CAREER, LIFE COACH, SELF EXPRESSION