Many people are facing redundancy right now, so I thought I’d share three things I have learned over the past year whether you are looking for a job or making your own.

It’s been a year that has flown by. Or is that just me? There have been huge challenges this year but also ones that I have relished. Luckily I felt ready for them.

Let me tell you a personal story. I was the first in my family to go to university and one of the first UK students to have to pay tuition fees. At that time, fees were ‘only’ £1000 per year but for me that meant that I had to see that this cost was going to pay off in the long run. Instead of seeing education as a cost, I saw this as an investment as I then went on to complete a masters, and a (funded) PhD. Something that I would benefit from personally as well as in my futu