As grads, school and college leavers come back to the fold this Summer, what are their job prospects and what can parents do to help things work out for the best? Sounds like a job for Mwaah’s career agony aunts, Lucy Gilmour and Wendy Barriball ... When I was finishing college and the prospect of looking for my first job was looming, I remember thinking ‘what’s the rush? I’ll just enjoy the summer with my friends, soak up a few rays and then job hunt in September.’ My parents however had other plans... I was marched to every reputable recruitment…

For those who struggle to find some meaningful me time, be prepared for a ruefully resonant giggle. And for those who wonder what life’s really like for a professional working mum, hang on to your tights, ‘cos Chris Humphreys persuaded Joyti Henchie, Mwaah’s legal eagle, mum of 3 and Head of Family Law at the newly merged Attwaters Jameson Hill, to let us peek into her journal....aka, ‘the secret diary of a permanently on-call girl’. Sunday - Have woken up stiff as a board after taking part in the Attwaters 26 mile sponsored walk in aid of our charity of…

Can we predict how a person will act in a particular situation? Or whether someone is suitable for a certain job? Or how they will react under stress? Tina Dulieu, Mwaah’s Business & Executive Coach believes she can answer ‘yes’ to all of these questions. Tina, owner of locally based Coaching Dynamics has trained, qualified an introduced DISC Personality Profilinginto her business coaching toolkit and has been very impressed by its accuracy and usefulness in recognising a person’s strengths, weaknesses, management styles and their ability to deal with particular situations and people. “According to the percentage of each personality type…

From living on £3 a day to running a rapid growth business in a few years – and all by the age of 24! Chris Humphreys meets Takeley’s Transylvanian tycoon... Turn the clock back just four years, and picture a 20 year old Romanian girl, her partner Anton and brother Marius living in a room in Glasgow big enough only for a single bed and wardrobe. Every morning their Russian paymasters would transport them by van to an area unknown to them, give each of them a map and 1000 leaflets to deliver door to door until they returned to…

Feisty and driven, these women have launched careers in industries still very much male dominated, even in the Noughties. Dawn Leahey discovers what’s behind their drive and success. Warehouse, forklift truck, high-vis jackets and hard hats...the words themselves ooze with testosterone. So imagine what a delightful sight it is to arrive at Tass Transport and Storage Solutions in Hertford to be greeted by Lynn Bound at the doorway to her very own warehouse facility wearing the said high-vis vest and hard hat! Superficially about as far away from the Dragon’s Den’s Hillary Devey as you can get, this logistics lady…

When Harlow-born Jenny Twigg was approached to work in a local care home as ‘the hairdresser’ in 2001, little did she know that 9 years later she would be sharing a stage with one of the most feared ‘Dragons’ from the TV series ‘Dragon’s Den’, retelling her business journey to a live audience whilst also being broadcast worldwide on an online TV channel for entrepreneurs! But, then again, Jenny Twigg is ‘no ordinary’ hairdresser....