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The Nightmare Before Christmas: A Year of Overcoming ‘Scary’ Career Challenges

22 Dec

By Marie - The Digital Acrobat, Academic Career, Alice Violett, PhD, self development, self-improvement, Leave a comment

The Nightmare Before Christmas: A Year of Overcoming ‘Scary’ Career Challenges

In some ways I’m not following the ‘traditional’ career model: I am currently in the second year of a history PhD and spend most of my time studying. However, I constantly have an eye towards what I might do afterwards (academia, publishing and social research all appeal to me) and preparing myself for it. In … Continue reading »

Creative ways to follow up after a job interview

05 Nov

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Creative ways to follow up after a job interview

****GUEST BLOG**** Tess Pajaron, Community Manager at Open Colleges So, your big job interview is over and all you can do now is wait, wait and wait. Hang on – there’s something you can do to make further impression on the hiring manager. You can simply follow up. Unless follow up is explicitly frowned upon, … Continue reading »

31 Oct

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Tackling those Career Fears & Demons

During October we have been theming our blogs and tips about ‘Overcoming and Tackling Career Fears’ to link in with Halloween. When we planned this a few months ago I knew it would be a useful topic for us to talk about and share, however, I didn’t realise just how much! As a busy career … Continue reading »

08 Oct

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Transforming the Career Circus Basecamp

We are incredibly excited to have opened our official office in Ipswich at the end of September. The whole team have rolled up their sleeves up and got themselves stuck into transforming a Historic Merchants Building on the Ipswich Waterfront into our new home. With the help of Interior Architecture and Design student Kasia Nowicka, … Continue reading »

My Life Is A Circus #5 – Career Fears & Big Choices

08 Oct

By Marie - The Digital Acrobat, ambition, career fears, degree, fears, goals, life choices, moving, non-degree, Leave a comment

My Life Is A Circus #5 – Career Fears & Big Choices

Lately I have found myself making so many big changes that it has, at times, left me out of breath. I moved from the UK and back to Norway, ended a relationship and moved again, and it’s a lot of change in a short amount of time! Splitting up my relationship affected a lot of … Continue reading »

14 Sep

By Marie - The Digital Acrobat, Auction, Basecamp, Charity event, Essex, Ipswich, Office, Leave a comment

Roll up to the unveiling…

…of our new office! All of us at Team Circus are incredibly excited – we have been working incredibly hard and are proud to invite everyone to the launch of our brand new office! After transforming a Historic Merchants Building on the Ipswich Waterfront, we are opening the doors to for each and every one … Continue reading »

12 Sep

By Marie - The Digital Acrobat, Assertiveness, Masterclass, self-improvement, YP Network, Leave a comment

YP Network Recap on Assertiveness

On Tuesday 25th August, we held another successful Colchester YP Masterclass tucked up in the top of the The Stockwell pub. The Masterclass was run by Iain Finch who is a widely accomplished, ambitious, inspirational leader with extensive management experience. Now working as the Site Services manager (a Head of Department role), at Chapman Ventilation … Continue reading »

01 Sep

By Marie - The Digital Acrobat, #TeamCircus, Careers Adviser, Driscoll, Natalie Lusted, OneNote, Tent Tools, Work tools, Leave a comment

Tent Tools #3: One Note

This is the third post in a whole new series on the Career Circus blog! We plan to share our favourite tools in the #TeamCircus tent with you, in a short and sweet format. If you know of some tools we might like, Marie would love to hear your suggestions. These posts will be written by … Continue reading »

20 Aug

By Marie - The Digital Acrobat, Career Development, Challenge Yourself, motivators, Self-motivation, Leave a comment

How to keep motivated at work

It’s difficult this time of year to keep yourself motivated and focused at work whilst colleagues are away on holiday, you’re either waiting to go away or have already been – so suffering with post holiday blues. I am definitely in this category having just got married and back from a fabulous 2 week honeymoon. … Continue reading »

All Posts

The Nightmare Before Christmas: A Year of Overcoming ‘Scary’ Career Challenges

Creative ways to follow up after a job interview

Tackling those Career Fears & Demons

Transforming the Career Circus Basecamp

My Life Is A Circus #5 – Career Fears & Big Choices

Roll up to the unveiling…

YP Network Recap on Assertiveness

Tent Tools #3: One Note

How to keep motivated at work

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