Davina McCall - TV Presenter
Davina McCall is a TV presenter. "Bizarrely, I never thought that TV presenting was a job when I was little." She had to try hard and not be put off by setbacks. She had 37 letters of rejection before...
Patricia Curl - International Student Recruitment Officer
Patricia Curl is International Student Recruitment Officer at Cambridge Regional College. She had a business that involved travelling round the country until her second child was born. He was very ill,...
Marcus Dawson - Business Analysis Teamleader
Marcus Dawson manages Business Analysis at Boden, the online clothes company. His manager at his first job with John Lewis was a mentor. "I had certain skills and I was good at stuff that analysts had...
Felix Adane - IT Specialist
Felix Adane is an IT specialist at IBM - "that involves anything from doing designing, implementing, building or testing a computer system." In five years time he would like to be at the cutting edge...
Gwenyth Barker - Business Relationship Manager
Gwenyth Barker is a Business Relationship Manager and works for IBM. She says "I thoroughly enjoyed university for the people that I met, the subjects that I studied and I had a great three years. You're...
Mark Oldfield - Quality/Health & Safety
Mark Oldfield deals with issues of quality, health and safety at the Auto Windscreens factory. He worked on the factory floor for sixteen years until a new manager spotted his potential and asked him to...
Elaine Watson - Training Coordinator
Elaine Watson is the training co-ordinator business support officer for Birmingham Disability Resource Centre. She organises and delivers training to local businesses about employing disabled people. She...
John Boular - Information Officer
John Boular is the information officer at Birmingham Disability Resource Centre. He has a disability of the spine, so it was a big blow when he lost his job in the electro-plating business. He went to...
John Ellis - Outreach Worker
John Ellis is an outreach worker at Birmingham Disability Resource Centre. He was a printer for thirty years, but work-related health problems forced a rethink. He became a volunteer at the centre, took...
Rosemary Hunter - Countryside Management Lecturer
Rosemary Hunter works at CAFRE as a countryside management lecturer. She values the volunteering and gap year she did - "you basically graduate, you've got a qualification but you haven't got the experience,...
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