The Corner Office

In this installment of our Day in the Life Series, we talk to a finance manager at a global internet company. Historically at the Corner Office, we lump Finance and Accounting into one. Not so – managing budgets and forecasting are completely different to auditing historical profits and losses. Read below to find out what a typical [...]

In this edition to our Day in the Life Series, we chat with Stephanie, an Events Planner with a large IT firm. Stephanie takes us through the ups and downs of planning and executing large scale meetings. We think that it sounds stressful but very satisfactory! Can you sum up your main responsibilities? Planning all aspects of [...]

We interviewed Marjan Verweij who works as a Recruitment Coordinator at a homecare organisation. The firm provides help with household activities, nursing, caring, youth care, home supervision and provides supplies ill patients in their own home. Can you sum up your main responsibilities?  My main role is to find and recruit new employees. I handle job applications [...]

Based in Camden in London, uSwitchforBusiness is a team of 35 business experts, who help their customers to get a better deal on gas and electricity for their business by getting quotes from across the market on their behalf. Today Lauren Pope from uSwitch explains exactly what a Business Energy Advisor does on a daily [...]

In this installment of our Day in the Life Series, we interview Deepa Vaid, who works as a marketing executive for a healthcare firm.  Read more to get extra insight into a marketing career. Can you sum up the main responsibilities of your job? My primary tasks are to organise external exhibitions and the annual sales [...]

We interviewed Roger Walker who works as Head of Operations at a trusted technology leader. Can you sum up the key responsibilities of your job? Working as the head of operations, I am essentially required to manage people and a company’s resources. My main role is to improve the efficiency of the client company’s production and [...]

In this installment of the “Day in the Life” Series, we chat to a Credit Controller for a major telecommunication company. Chasing past due invoices never looked so fun! What are your main responsibilities? I work as a credit controller. My role is to chase the outstanding debt on all customer accounts which include telephone accounts, private [...]

Today in our globalised world, we are extremely dependent on Information Technology. It is no surprise that there is an increasingly high demand for IT programmers.  The Corner Office interviewed Victor Chang who undertook a summer placement as an IT programmer. What are the key responsibilities of your job? Fundamentally, a computer programmer is someone who writes designs and develops [...]

This week in our Day in the Life series, we interviewed Nazim Merhoum to get an insight into his day to day life working as a Head Chef. Do you think you could stand the heat of the kitchen? Can you sum up the key responsibilities if your job? My main role is to make [...]

At the end of the day, education is the passport to success. Teaching is an excellent profession that is facing continuous growth. We interviewed a Maths teacher working at a local Secondary school, who is also Head of the Maths Department. Can you sum up the key responsibilities of your job? My primary role, of [...]