Experienced Fellows in Hong Kong
Hong Kong by night
Many Fellows think about spending some part of their careers working abroad....and one session of the Career Development Evening in March will be looking at the question of an international dimension to a career.
There are two Fellows based in Hong Kong who are very happy to help with advice and who have many years of experience at various levels and in different areas. Dominic Perret has been in Hong Kong since 2000, primarily working for Cathay Pacific within the Swire Group and acting as country manager for the airline in other locations. Ewan Ritchie has lived and worked in the region for 18 years.
Both are very happy to help Fellows who are thinking of working in the Far East. Tim Young can put any interested Fellows in touch with Dominic or Ewan.
Chairman Jason Chaffer has kindly agreed to host another Career Development Evening at Manchester Square Partners in Old Burlington Street on Tuesday 20 March. The last such evening in 2010, aimed at those Fellows who have left university, but have not yet reached their forties, and who are thinking of how their working lives might evolve, was a considerable success: our picture shows discussion during the course of that very convivial evening. If you have not received an invitation, but would like one, please let Tim Young or Jan Carter know.
As our School Fellows look forward to their Community Action Placements in the coming year, it is a reminder of what a successful year 2011 was on this front, both for the Leadership Award holders and the projects which hosted them. We have already featured a number of excellent reports and here is another one, from Marlborough's Jessamyn Nock (pictured right), on her stay with the Ellesmere Youth Project. Jenny Tibbles, the manager of the project in Sheffield, described Jess as a valued member of staff and reported that it had been a pleasure having her there.
The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist. - Harold Wilkins