Category Archives: Careers
Graduate recruitment guru to deliver Merchant Taylors’ lecture
A best-selling author and expert on graduate careers will be the keynote speaker at an event at Merchant Taylors’. Dr Paul Redmond, who has written several books and spoken internationally about generational work and recruitment, will address delegates gathered at
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Joint Schools Careers & Higher Education Fair
Calling all Year 10’s, 11’s and 12’s from Merchant Taylors’ and local Schools! We have a Careers and HE Fair taking place on Wednesday 7th November at Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ School. The fair is open to anyone in Years 10-12
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Careers Notice for Lower Sixth
Merseyside Police are starting recruitment for the next cohort of Volunteer Police Cadets. The recruiting line will be opened on Friday 28th September 2018 and will remain open for two weeks. The application forms will be found on the Merseyside Police website
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‘Whatever Happened to…’ – Peter Emmerson 1975 leaver
I’m currently facing a quandary which I doubt most of my contemporaries at MTS are contemplating: having just celebrated the age of getting my free 60+ London travel card, do I finally hang up my flak jacket and helmet and
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A Leap of Faith
I left Crosby in 1991 to study Civil Engineering at Newcastle University. After graduating with my first Masters degree I joined a design consultancy in Newcastle and enjoyed a very fulfilling career with them for nearly 15 years. When the
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Old Boy becomes President of Michigan Intellectual Property Inn of Court
William Abbatt left Merchant Taylors’ in 1962 to study Material Sciences at Imperial College London. He stayed a further year to take a Masters course in Production Engineering and Management. Having worked for many years in this field, he decided
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Merchant Taylors: Life outside the Bubble
23rd June, 2014. 3 days after my final exam at MTGS and I was on a plane to Cambodia. My parents were beside themselves! I had never been abroad without adult supervision before and 6 weeks of teaching in the
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Sibling Duo Alumni to Produce Legally Blonde Production
Since leaving Merchant Taylors’ Girls and Boys school, brother and sister duo, Laura and Mark McLaughlin, have been running stage school Plastersine Performing Arts Company. Laura graduated in 2006 from LIPA – Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, and opened Plastersine
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From Renewable Energy to Vineyards
What started as an idea to open a French office for City Windmills, ended up with a relocation to Bergerac and a new career investing in vineyards. “Dordogneshire” as it is more commonly known, is part of Aquitaine and
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What Can a Fighter Pilot Teach a CEO?
Old Boy Justin Hughes attended Merchant Taylors’ between 1978-82 following his time at the prep school. He has now drawn upon his wealth of experiences to write a book illustrating how to transfer military approaches to working environments… WHAT CAN
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