by Staff Writer | Jan 7, 2021 | Careers
What happened when this recent graduate landed a role for a Swedish music industry startup on Start Me Up’s Remote Internship Program. Like many recent graduates, Kim was unsure which direction to take her career. She loved illustration and had studied design...
by Abby Clapson | Sep 27, 2020 | Blog, Careers
Some of today’s best-known companies, including Uber, Dropbox and Google hire growth managers. And according to Glassdoor, the US national average salary for a Growth Manager is $108,992. But what exactly do they do? “The Growth Manager function typically lives at...
by Abby Clapson | Aug 18, 2020 | Careers
At Start Me Up, we offer advice on everything from nailing job interviews and applications to upskilling. Product managers are some of the best-paid people in Silicon Valley. And successful product managers come from a range of backgrounds. So how do you go about...
by Abby Clapson | Aug 18, 2020 | Careers
At Start Me Up, we offer advice on everything from nailing job interviews and applications to upskilling, as part of our Career Kickstarter Program. Would you like a career with plenty of opportunities across a range of industries? People can be snobby about...
by Staff Writer | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Careers, Internships
This article is based on “How to Ace A Job Interview”, a training by Alexandrina Danifeld, Recruitment and Talent Management Lead at Livit. Have you applied to lots of remote internships and/or graduate jobs and failed at the video interview? Here, we...
by Staff writer | Oct 11, 2019 | Careers, Internships, Skills hacking, Startups, Travel, UX
Lenny had over ten year’s experience working in corporate IT. She wanted to switch careers into UX and experience the world of remote work and so joined Start Me Up’s Remote Internship Program. What project have you been working on? “I have been looking at...
by Staff writer | Oct 10, 2019 | Careers, Internships, Startups
Carolina just graduated with a Masters in Oceanography from Southampton University. She completed a Fashion Internship as part of Start Me Up’s Remote Internship Program. Why did you decide to do a Start Me Up internship? “I thought I wanted to do something...
by Staff writer | Oct 8, 2019 | Careers, Internships, Startups
Sadiq is a graduate of University of British Columbia. He embarked on a Data Analysis and UX Internship as part of Start Me Up’s Remote Internship Program. Why did you decide to join Start Me Up? “I was just looking for jobs and I didn’t really see any...
by Staff writer | Oct 8, 2019 | Careers, Internships, Travel
Kitty studied Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Sussex and completed a Renewable Energy Internship as part of Start Me Up’s Remote Internship Program. Why did you decide to join Start Me Up? “I decided to join Start Me Up because it...
by Rhiannon Osborne-Tonner | Sep 12, 2019 | Careers, Internships, Travel
Rhiannon Osborne Tonner is a fourth year Natural Sciences student at UCL. She spent one month in Bali on Start Me Up’s UX Remote Internship Program. I used to think remote working was for two kinds of people: coders and influencers. The rest of us, I assumed,...
by Staff writer | Sep 12, 2019 | Careers, Travel
Ashna Jalan is studying cognitive science and artificial intelligence at the University of Toronto. She spent one month on Start Me Up’s Remote Internship Program. Why did you decide to do Start Me Up? “I worked in a corporation last summer. So this time...
by Rhiannon Osborne-Tonner | Aug 7, 2019 | Careers, Gap year, Graduate Jobs, Internships
Rhiannon Osborne Tonner is in her final year of UCL studying Natural Sciences. She interned in Bali on a month long Start Me Up UX Internship. You’ve just graduated. Your university days are behind you. You’ve been launched into the world that lies beyond your...
by Staff writer | Aug 7, 2019 | Careers, Engineering, Gap year, Graduate Jobs, Internships
Pooja Vadha has just finished her Physics Masters and is going on to study for a PhD in Solid State Batteries for Electric Vehicles at UCL. She spent one month on Start Me Up’s Remote Internship Program. “I applied for this program because I wanted to learn new...
by Staff writer | Jul 15, 2019 | Careers, Gap year, Graduate Jobs, Internships, Travel
Emma Bourgeois recently graduated in law from the University of Exeter. She spent one month interning remotely on Start Me Up’s Remote Internship Program for an edtech company. “I decided to go for this experience because first of all it’s in Bali, which is amazing,...
by Staff writer | Apr 28, 2019 | Careers, Fintech, Internships, Travel
Luke Kock recently graduated from Warwick University in the UK. He spent one month on Start Me Up’s Startup Internship Program in Bali. What have you been doing over the past month? “I’ve been combining traveling throughout Asia with a Start Me Up internship...
by Amelia Martin | Feb 18, 2019 | Careers, Travel
Recent Canadian graduate Amelia Martin spent one month interning for a book publishing startup while on Start Me Up’s Startup Internship Program in Bali which led to a remote job and a year of travel to 11 countries. When I was in my final year of business school I...
by Camille de Villiers | Jan 23, 2019 | Careers, Gap year
Camille de Villiers spent part of her Gap Year before University on Start Me Up’s Gap Year Startup Program in Bali. I’d come to the end of my school career. All of my friends had decided what they were going to study and I had no idea. I decided I wanted to travel and...
by Céline Dogsé | Oct 8, 2018 | Careers, Internships
Céline Dogsé is studying Arts & Sciences at UCL, she spent one month interning for a social enterprise as part of Start Me Up’s Startup Internship Program in Bali. I decided to join the program and come to Bali because I wanted to see something new: to see...
by Josh Campbell | Sep 25, 2018 | Careers, Graduate Jobs, Internships
Josh Campbell has just graduated. He took part in Start Me Up’s Startup Internship Program in Bali. I’d just graduated from university and had an offer for a graduate program at the supermarket chain Lidl. A lot of my friends were moving to London but I wasn’t...
by Nadhila Saraswati | Mar 21, 2018 | Careers
Are you looking for a career that mixes travel, strategy consulting and entrepreneurship? So was Nicole Schlemmer, a recent graduate in International Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands. Nicole interned on one of Start Me...
by Clare Harrison | Dec 12, 2017 | Careers
As a student I spent too long reading really old books. And while I credit the 17th century French philosophy with helping me question everything, it wasn’t that helpful when it came to making early career and life choices. So here are several books I wish I’d had the...
by Clare Harrison | Nov 7, 2017 | Careers
If there is one question that historians are probably bored of, it’s relatives asking: “What are you are going to do with a history degree, be a historian?” Helpful. Maybe you already know. Maybe you’ve already got your line about having a gap...
