An alternative careers fair
At university there was a careers fair where the likes of KPMG and Deloitte had stands - this seemed to be rocking a lot of my peers' worlds, and they saw it as a natural destination for them. It just didn't fit with me, so instead I went to an alternative careers fair where VSO had a stand. They offered a six-month programme with The Prince's Trust that combined an overseas placement with another based in the UK.
I worked in a youth centre in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire for three months and then spent three months at a school and hospital in Tamale, Ghana. It was almost a postgraduate course in fundraising, and it got me really engaged. When I came back, the Prince's Trust had a fundraising role come up, which I got.
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