The worsening economic climate during the year made it a tough time for job hunters, but that didn't prevent many of the January three-monthers from making it into the workplace in record time.
Lucy Miles worked as a freelance in London before returning to her native New Zealand and Melissa Mahtani resumed her corporate communications broadcasting job at the end of the course, later moving to France 24 in Paris as a news producer. Osian ap Garth picked up a reporting job for an IT magazine, Craig McGlashan landed a reporting job with Adfero, later becoming a desk head there, before moving on to 2i Media, a finance website and magazine and becoming deputy editor of Global Securities Lending, while Ian Dunt was appointed online editor at politics.co.uk.
Giovanni Legorano (above, bottom) started work for Global Pensions magazine, part of Incisive Media, before returning to Milan to work for the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones newswires, while Anna Brown joined Newsquest in south London as a sub-editor, working on a range of titles from the Cheam head office and later becoming a senior sub there.
The nine-monthers who started at the same time (above, top) didn't finish until October, but that didn't stop Ros Donald from rapidly starting work as a reporter for Global Competition Review and Laura Aylett being appointed a press officer for the Royal College of Nursing.
Of the April three-monthers, Alexandra Bridgwater now works in beauty PR and Jaimie Kaffash was appointed deputy chief sub-editor of Public Finance magazine, while Anna Kuk is a reporter for the BBC Russian Service in Moscow. Jaimie later moved to Accountancy Age as a reporter before becoming a senior reporter/deputy news editor at the medical magazine Pulse, where he was later promoted to news editor. Emanuele Norsa returned to London from Italy in 2010 to become a business reporter for Steel Business Briefing, covering Spain, Portugal and Greece.
Of the January six-monthers, Colombe Verges followed in the footsteps of Osian ap Garth (above) and went to work for the Uxbridge-based trade publication IT Europa, while David Cardenas returned to Vienna to take up an internship with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Colombe moved from IT Europa in 2010 to work for a specialist publishing house in India, working on luxury arts and culture books, but said of her time at the fortnightly IT business publication: "The job is a journalist job, that involves writing news stories, interviews and features. It involves a lot of travel as well - in the last two years, I have been to Boston, San Francisco, New Orleans, Copenhagen, Milan, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Prague and Stockholm.
"It is a great job for someone who wants to start in journalism, as it is a small editorial team (we're three journalists, including our editor), and so the job covers all the basic work of a journalist, from finding interesting ideas for stories, dealing with the PR side, building and maintaining good relationships with them and the people interviewed, interviewing plenty of main characters in the IT world, updating the website, laying out the pages on the written publication using In-Design." She has since moved to Brazil, where she is pursuing a freelance career in Sao Paulo.
The September three-monthers hit the jobs market just as the credit crunch began to bite in earnest, but Kayley Edwards got a job as a marketing writer with a data management company in Guildford and Samantha Leese turned an internship with Time Out in Hong Kong into a staff job, while Fred Palley interned with IPC media and worked as a freelance for sport.co.uk and mirrorfootball.co.uk before becoming deputy editor at The Exchange, UK editor for GX magazine and UK content and promotions manager for Sportingbet.
Samantha stayed at Time Out for just under a year before going freelance at the end of 2009 when she was approached by CNN Travel to contribute to their website. Based in Hong Kong, she has had pieces published in Time, The Spectator and covers Asia-Pacific lifestyle stories for the agency AFP, as well as writing a books column for the fashion and lifestyle glossy Prestige and acting as features editor for Glass's magazine. In 2013 she was contemplating a Master of Fine Arts degree in Hong Kong and working with a literary agent on her first novel/short story collection.
Samantha stayed at Time Out for just under a year before going freelance at the end of 2009 when she was approached by CNN Travel to contribute to their website. Based in Hong Kong, she has had pieces published in Time, The Spectator and covers Asia-Pacific lifestyle stories for the agency AFP, as well as writing a books column for the fashion and lifestyle glossy Prestige and acting as features editor for Glass's magazine. In 2013 she was contemplating a Master of Fine Arts degree in Hong Kong and working with a literary agent on her first novel/short story collection.
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