Month: August 2022

Over half of Britain’s young people have started or thought about starting a business. This is a trend that has more to do with what they see everyday on the likes of TikTok than what they learn in the classroom. After all, most young people are being taught nothing at all about the world of work – let alone the first thing the need for starting a business.

It’s not just young people who prize entrepreneurial skills: employers do too. To coincide with the launch of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Entrepreneurship report calling on the government to prioritize itwe coordinated a letter to back the findings, which hundreds of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs and educators have signed.

The APPG report was supported by finnCap. As Sam Smith, group CEO of finnCap, says: “I have worked with programs that teach entrepreneurship in schools. I’ve seen first hand how these programs open up opportunities for young people from backgrounds that are usually excluded from entrepreneurship. Embedding education into the mainstream education system will create a more equitable future for the UK’s young people.”

Alongside Sam Smith, the letter has been signed by many of the great and the good of UK entrepreneurship, including: Lord Bilimoria CBE DL, founder of Cobra Beer and CBI president; Dragon and retailer Theo Paphitis; Giles Andrews OBE, founder of Zopa; Sherry Coutu CBE, trustee of Founders4Schools; Emma Jones CBE, founder of Enterprise Nation; Rishi Khosla OBE, CEO and co-founder of OakNorth Bank; Rajeeb Dey MBE, founder & CEO of Learnerbly; Sean Ramsden MBE, founder and CEO of Ramsden International; Caroline Theobald CBE, managing director of Bridge Club; Dr Sarah Wood OBE, senior independent director of Tech Nation; Simon Woodroffe OBE, founder of YO! Company; Shalini Khemka CBE,

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In a recent video on his YouTube channel, doctor-turned-startup founder Ali Abdaal shares everything he has learned as an employer who has read more than 2,000 job applications over the last few years. “If you do want to apply or get your dream job, then to be honest, the work starts way before you actually apply,” he says. “You want to build a portfolio of skills and assets that will convince your employer to take you on rather than someone else who’s applied for the job.”

One of the best pieces of advice he has to offer when writing your resume is to keep it short and sweet. While your first impulse might be to include every piece of information about your entire working life in order to make the best case for your skills and experience, the last thing any prospective employer wants to do is read six pages. The fact is, they simply won’t. A one-pager, on the other hand, is that much likelier to help you get an interview.

“If you do have tons of experience, there’s no harm in tailoring your CV to the specific job that you want to apply for,” says Abdaal. “The mistake people make here is that they take a scattergun approach, but you’re not going to land your dream job if you apply for 5,000 jobs with the same CV. Figure out what are the jobs you actually want… and figure out ways to adjust your CV so it fits onto one page, maybe two at the absolute max, but you get rid of all the stuff that is not