The final 12 participants on Advantage NI’s innovative Business Boot Camp recently graduated from the programme at Belfast Castle. After fierce competition from over 120 applicants across Northern Ireland, 36 young would-be entrepreneurs secured a much coveted place on the programme. Funded by Invest Northern Ireland, and endorsed by ILM, Business Boot Camp is geared to 18-30 year olds who are considering starting their own business. After pitching their business idea to a panel of experts the 3… Continue

Bill McGinnis, the NI Skills Advisor, has established an Advisory Task Group to investigate and make recommendations about SMEs engagement with Employment and Skills Programmes. In simple terms this task group is asking SMEs if they are aware of existing Government funded programmes, if they make use of them and if they have ideas on how best to promote these schemes. By the way, SMEs are defined as organisations with up to 250 employees.

I would be grateful if you would take a few minutes to c… Continue

I will be taking part in the Take 12:UK digital media workshops - the first takes place next month. Anyone else from Digital Circle going along? The first workshop will look at the "digital media ecosystem" - sounds intriguing!

The Student Placement is the most direct way that the industry can interact and instruct students who are not yet in the workforce of the things they need to learn in order to become excellent prospective employees in the future.

Why do so many companies refuse a placement and yet complain that graduates from schools, colleges and universities are not meeting their stringent standards?

Around this time of year I'm inundated with requests for A-Level student placements within companies. Soon we… Continue

Hi everyone,

I hope you're all well. This week, my company, Digitas, will be launching. We're a digital media production company specialising in investigative journalism. We urgently need young filmmakers to join our production team. If you are a student looking experience in the media and film industries, this is an ideal opportunity to get both production experience and the chance to work on a film due for network broadcast. As our site is still under construction, please e-mail me with your… Continue