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The impact of social media in higher education

You may well be wondering why a nurse has been invited to blog for Salford Business School, I asked the same question until I recognised that using social media in nurse education is part of our business. As a lecturer in children’s nursing, I am also part of the fitness for professional practice team and […]

What does an #MBA teach you?

What does an MBA teach you? I have not done an MBA personally but I know it’s something that could have helped me and my business. The route I took was largely haphazard (although on paper it looks ‘logical’ and ‘well thought out’). So, I did a BSc in Business Information Systems (2000-2003), after that […]

Salford MBA international trip-The Intercontinental Hotel Group

An integral part of the MBA experience is an overseas visit, in which I had the opportunity to spend an intensive week in the United Arab Emirates. This experience enabled me to meet like-minded leaders and be immerse  in another business culture. This year’s visit  included a Global Leaders Industry Visit to the Intercontinental Hotel in Abu Dhabi. […]

How to network: Make the right first impression

As I was about to embark on my final year at university, typically, more and more graduate unemployment statistics kept creeping up. I say ‘typically’ because naturally when you don’t want to think about something there it is, constantly in front of you. Social media was a great reminder of how tough the job market […]

Women – the digital industry needs you!

Gender representation in particular within the digital and media industries has been a hot topic of late, with much debate around diversity and inequalities within this thriving workforce. Although digital is a progressive industry that encourages equal opportunities and embraces talent rather than gender, many believe there are too few skilled female professionals. There are […]

Business Internships: 10 reasons to offer student work placements

What does Hotel Desk, is a North West UK based venue finding company, thinks about working with Salford Business School students? Hotel Desk is a small medium-sized enterprise (SME) that has a recent experiences of Business School placements students. We have benefited from digital marketing students who made a great contribution to our business. I […]

My Golden Ticket to Camp Digital 2015

For those of you like myself who were very keen to attend Camp Digital and get your hands on those sort after tickets and be one of the 350 lucky people to be at the event, it must have been a disappointment if you didn’t get chance to go. Tickets had sold out and the […]

Job search tips: Facing job hunting head-on

As the UK’s number 1 technical recruiter, with 46 years of recruitment and HR experience, Morson Group is proud to be the primary sponsor of the Salford Business School Ball 2015. There is so much conflicting information available regarding job hunting and graduates, but it provides little help to actually doing the daunting task and […]

Why I’m attending the Salford Business School Ball #SBSBall

I cannot wait to attend this years’ Salford Business School Ball on Friday 29th May 2015. I’m mostly excited because I never had a high school prom, so it’s a pretty big occasion for me.  It’s a nice way to celebrate before we graduate and have fun with classmates and alumni! This night is created […]

How to land the perfect placement

Graduating with a good degree is, of course, the main priority for all students when they first walk through the doors of their Business School. Yet, graduating with work experience in the bag is even more important as recently mentioned by Steve Lowy on this blog, and students should maybe refocus their aims slightly to ensure […]