We have included a number of recent articles focusing on business start-up as a career option using examples of graduates who have become successful entrepreneurs, and which we hope will give you some ideas of your own together with inspiration and the motivation to become your own boss.

We also include articles which focus on the skills that employers are looking for in the graduates they employ.


Setting up your own business


The following sites will be of great help to anyone thinking of starting a business:

Companies House
 
Customs & Excise
 
UK Patent Office
 
Health & Safety at Work
 
Inland Revenue
 
Equal Opportunities
 
Export & Import
 
The Prince's Trust
 
Business Link
 
Durham City Arts
 
County Durham Development Company
 
Business Angels
 
Millennium Awards Trust
 
Social Entrepreneurship
 
Community Action Network

 
North East Innovation Centre
 
North East Centre for Scientific Enterprise

Graduates for Growth


 





Articles

RealWorld June 2002.
‘Mind your own business' page 38
'Mind your own business' page 39


Prospects 2002
Focus on self-employment

Prospects Finalist 2002
'The self-employment option'

JobServe 1 October 2002
Britain's high growth entrepreneurs

JobServe 25 September 2002
UK entrepreneurs did it 'their way' and 'never - say- never'


What skills are employers looking for?

Prospects 2002
What are employers looking for?