Tag: career
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Week 9: A Day with the Mountain Weather Information Service
I promised in my last post that I would be sharing my action plan with you. So what does MWIS have to do with my personal career plan? Before I get to the answer, let me give you a brief outline of my day with one of the meteorologists from the service at the start…
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Week 5: How do you best prepare for an outdoor qualification?
Let’s face it, starting a qualification as an adult is a pretty big deal. There are many reasons for this: it costs a lot, takes a lot of time up you could be spending on other things, and there’s no guarantee at the other end you will get a return on your investment. So how…
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A Career as a Mountain Leader: How do you navigate your options?
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. As promised in a previous blog about doing a year of career development, here is the first instalment. I have been a Careers Adviser for ten years. For the same amount of time, I have also been a Mountain Leader. The question I am focusing on is: how can you…
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A Year in the Life of a Mountain Training Candidate
So here’s a new challenge, one that I have thought about doing for a long time but always hesitated to start. Until now. What would happen if I took some of the general careers advice I usually give to students and applied it to my development as a Mountain Training candidate? What sort of things…
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