Careers Fair
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Simon Broomer LLB, Postgrad. Dipl. Career Mgt & Counsellg
Simon Broomer is a career planning and job search specialist with CareerBalance Limited, a firm of career consultants based in London. CareerBalance successfully assists clients from different backgrounds, occupations and sectors with career decision-making, career changes and finding new career opportunities.
These include graduates who are just entering the full-time job market as well as those who have been working for a while and want to take more control of their career direction.
Simon holds a postgraduate diploma in career management and counselling from the University of London, and he has more than 15 years' experience in helping people to fulfil their potential in the workplace. CareerBalance's clients come from, or have secured roles with, hundreds of organisations in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. This gives a unique insight into the current job market and modern careers from technology, banking and transport to pharmaceuticals, energy and defence.
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Seamus Hegarty
Seamus Hegarty graduated from the University of Aston in 1981 with a combined honours degree in physics and french. After a postgraduate diploma in technical translation at the University of Kent, he joined the information service of the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering in Bedfordshire for three years.
In 1985 he went to CERN to work in its publication service. After completing an MBA with the Open University, he moved into the human resources department. There he is working on the HR administration of the European Commission’s Marie Curie Action in which CERN is involved, with the specific aim of attracting young researchers to CERN’s projects and promoting research as a future career area for young graduates and early-stage researchers in a range of topics covering physics and engineering.
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Emma Ford
Emma Ford is a freelance consultant specialising in career and performance coaching, employability skills, and selection tools and processes.
Her career before becoming a consultant was with BP, managing its selection tools and processes for interns and graduates in the UK and Europe. She shared best practice with many different countries, helping them to define and build selection processes, and she found trips to Egypt and Iran both enjoyable and fascinating.
Previous to this she managed BP’s educational programmes in the UK and social investment projects in London.
Emma works with organisations on employability skills and career development for students. She coaches people who are looking to enhance or change their career and works with organisations to add rigour to or develop their selection processes.
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