CareersBU Podcast- Bournemouth University Careers Service

In today’s episode, Amanda chats to BU alumn, David Burnet (BSc Games Technology). David is the founder and director of Invidar, a tech company in Poole that specialises in real time 3D solutions and immersive technology. David talks about his time at BU where he studied BSc Games Technology. He explains how he developed his technical skills and built experience through placement and other opportunities and talks about his experience of building a business during the Covid pandemic.

To see the amazing work that Invidar creates, have a look here https://invidar.com/

In this episode, Amanda Fripp, Careers Adviser at BU, talks to Bournemouth University Alumni Mollie Taylor. Mollie graduated from BU with a MSc Biodiversity Conservation and went on to work within conservation in roles such as a ranger to engagement project coordinator.

Mollie went on to co-found the Four Acre Farm which is a community interest company in Ringwood. In this episode Mollie explains her aims of regenerating the land to support conservation and no dig farming, as well giving back to the community within education and wellbeing.

Mollie also achieved second place in the 2022 BU Eco Entrepreneurs Fund which was sponsored by Santander, and she talks about her experience of this process.

If you are a BU student or recent graduate and have a business idea that could help address the ecological or climate crisis, then you can find out more and apply to be a contestant in the BU Entrepreneurs Fund here https://bit.ly/3WyP65r

To find out more about the Four Acre Farm click here https://www.four-acre.farm/

Welcome to the first episode of the CareersBU podcast. In today's episode, Amanda Fripp, Careers Adviser from CareersBU chats to Alex Jacobs and Jenna Darlow to discuss the support CareersBU provides to students and graduates at Bournemouth University. They also discuss the importance of employability skills and why all students should sign up to the Graduate Skills Programme.

For more information on the Graduate Skills Programme see here https://bit.ly/3P3csgC