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Alan Bullock

Experienced and enthusiastic freelance careers and higher education consultant, speaker and writer

An enthusiastic and inspirational Careers Adviser, with 40 years’ guidance and management experience in UK and overseas. Author of Creating Your UCAS Personal Statement (Trotman) and more than 60 articles for the Which? University website. Spent 19 years running an innovative guidance service at a south coast sixth form college and now a freelance careers consultant and writer working with schools, colleges, universities, corporate and private clients in UK and abroad. Also a frequent contributor to regional and national conferences, speaking on topics relating to all the options open at 18 in a rapidly-changing career landscape.

Specialist interests and expertise:

Entry to Higher Education; UCAS personal statement writing; alternative options at 18 including apprenticeships, school-leaver programmes, sponsored degree schemes and study abroad; and advice for 8 to 18 year olds on careers in a changing world.

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Areas of particular expertise:

  • Career Guidance and Coaching
  • Higher Education and Graduate Employment
  • Post 16 Choices
  • Speaking, Conferences and Training
  • Apprenticeships
  • Case Studies and Interviews

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