Mad about books? Do your research to be in with the best chance of securing publishing placements. Photograph: Frank May/EPA It’s easy to feel lost when you’re first faced with securing your own work placement. I spent copious amounts of time researching and applying for placements; every day for around five weeks researching leads, contacts [...]

Most entrepreneurs are experiential learners—we learn by doing. Though we read articles and study decorated entrepreneurs, no lesson leaves a greater impact than the one learned from personal successes and mistakes. The downfall to this learning style is it requires making many mistakes—and the risk of making one too many as an entrepreneur is irreversible. [...]

While other girls were playing with their Barbies, at 6, Lisa Anter was charging 10 cents a cup at her lemonade stand at a lake near her Montreal, Canada, home. The following year she upped it to 15 cents. It would be another 20 years or so before her entrepreneurial instincts kicked in and she [...]

In this economic climate, standing out from the crowd when job-hunting is the only sure fire way to success. It is important that your potential employer remembers you for good reasons and communication is key as there may be many jobs available but you need to ensure that you are the person whom recruiters call [...]