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Robert Peake, CTO of Brave New Talent

Clicking In to the Revolution

By on March 23, 2011 in The Community Lab

By Robert Peake When my wife and I decided for personal reasons to relocate to London from California, I was determined to find a good job, and the next stage in my career. In evaluating early-stage startup opportunities, I used many of the same criteria as an investor, looking foremost for a great idea, a [...]

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What to do when youth unemployment hits another new high

By on January 21, 2011 in The Career Hub

We don’t mean to depress you, but we would rather give out facts rather than fiction. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) released figures reflecting the bad situation of this country’s unemployment rate. It rose from 7.7% to 7.9% in just 3 months preceding November 2010. Similarly, the employment rate fell by 0.3% to 70.4%, [...]

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How to put resolutions in practice

By on January 1, 2011 in The Career Hub

We all make New Year’s resolutions that we never keep. Whether we have too many resolutions, or a crazy resolution that we know deep down we won’t stick to, each year we make a resolution and most of us fail. In this post, we are going to look at 5 easy steps for you to [...]

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Skills gap

Recruiting Youth

By on October 14, 2010 in The BraveNewTalent Blog

Talent has no age. Talent has no passport. Talent has no gender; but opportunity has all three. Indeed, it is people that are the world’s greatest untapped resource. All around the world there are billions of unpolished diamonds – those people out there with raw talent but lacking the soft skills and educational polishing that [...]

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