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Adviser on the Edge. Careers in island communities: research, theory and practice. February 25, 2017. One of the students in this research refers to the ‘Law of Jante’, which I hadn’t heard of before but which is summarised by Wiborg like this:. I thought this was really interesting because in my first piece of research. One of our ferries – the Hjaltland – with its viking livery. Picture courtesy of Ronnie Robertson. After all Orkney and Shetland were actually annexed by the Norwegian Crown from the 10.
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Migration, education and employment: socio-cultural factors in shaping individual decisions in Orkney and Shetland | Adviser on the Edge
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Adviser on the Edge. Careers in island communities: research, theory and practice. Migration, education and employment: socio-cultural factors in shaping individual decisions in Orkney and Shetland. May 12, 2016. So, my latest paper has just been published in the Island Studies Journal. The paper is titled: Migration, education and employment: socio-cultural factors in shaping individual. Decisions and economic outcomes in Orkney and Shetland. Front cover of the Island Studies Journal Vol. 11 No.1. Gradu...
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Social Class, Rurality and Access to Higher Education | Adviser on the Edge
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Adviser on the Edge. Careers in island communities: research, theory and practice. Social Class, Rurality and Access to Higher Education. May 6, 2016. Bude: the town I grew up in (or at least the nearest town to the village I grew up in) – image courtesy of: scottcawley. CC BY-NC 2.0. Our country bus just went from one village to another), using taxi ranks and ‘flagging down’ taxis (I still don’t really understand this, I have always booked taxis in the country), and using mainline trai...I was also gett...
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Take the survey! | Adviser on the Edge
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Adviser on the Edge. Careers in island communities: research, theory and practice. As part of my PhD. Researching the higher education and career pathways of people from Orkney and Shetland I am conducting a survey of final year undergraduates from the Northern Isles. Image courtesy of mrpuen at FreeDigitalPhotos.net. So, if you lived in Orkney or Shetland before going on to study for a degree, and you are due to graduate in 2015 please help me by filling in the survey. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You ar...
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thomasgdaviescareersuccess | A Guide For Your Career's Success
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A Guide For Your Career's Success. All posts by thomasgdaviescareersuccess. British Expat. Ex-Sales Man turned Global Product Marketer. Fan of all things Basketball, Bio-Tech and Marketing. 6 Things You Should Never Say at Work. July 27, 2014. 8220;I may be wrong but…”. Always speak with certainty and conviction! Stop discounting your credibility and value infront of others. 8220;That’s not my job”. 8220;Let’s be honest”. 8220;You look tired”. Trust me- unless you are very well acquainted with a person, ...
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6 Things You Should Never Say at Work | A Guide For Your Career's Success
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A Guide For Your Career's Success. 6 Things You Should Never Say at Work. July 27, 2014. A thoughtless response or wrong word can ruin your reputation for an indefinite amount of time, especially at work. It’s today’s norm that we often spend more time at work than anywhere else. Perhaps that’s why so many get a little too casual and let their guards down. Therefore, to avoid any major pit falls, take my advice and don’t say any of these six phrases…. 8220;I may be wrong but…”. 8220;You look tired”.
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How to Make Innovation Part of Everyone’s Job | Paul Taylor
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How to Make Innovation Part of Everyone’s Job. The average colleague has seven ideas per day about how they could improve where they work. For our company that’s 9000 ideas per day. Or 3 million every year. But most of those ideas never catch fire. 8211; Bromford Lab. Tokyo, Japan 1936. 8211; Kiyoshi Ichimura , the son of a poor farming family , has an idea. Kiyoshi didn’t have any great privileges to speak of, but was ambitious and enterprising. Telford, England, 2015. There’s a sense of history a...
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Why You Haven’t Found Success | A Guide For Your Career's Success
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A Guide For Your Career's Success. Why You Haven’t Found Success. June 2, 2014. If I were to ask you, how do you feel about success? How would you answer? Many would say: I deserve it, I want more of it, I am working towards it. But if this is the case why do so many people not feel successful in their lives. Below I’ve listed my top 6 reasons as to why you may not feel successful right now in your life and what you can do about it:. 2 You don’t want to upset anyone- You will never be able to pleas...
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Forget employability – mindset is more important | Graduate Recruiter Blog
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I recruit graduates, therefore I am. July 8, 2014. Forget employability – mindset is more important. This is the first in a series of articles about the importance of mindset. In this article I will explain why I think mindset matters more than employability. I’ll save that contentious debate for another article. It matters because it is a continuum on which one’s ability to be employed is explained. It is controllable to a certain degree, ie. there are things that you can do to improve it&...But somethi...
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