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The power of effective note-taking is often underestimated. However, this is a crucial step in making the most of your education.

Not everyone's born able to whip up a cheese soufflé. But if you’re fed up of living off takeaway pizza and ramen from the pound shop, have no fear – cooking is actually not that hard!

Many of us can’t live without social media – we post pictures of our brunch, we Snapchat countless selfies, we tweet our views of JP and Binky’s lovechild – we have created a complete online persona. So how can that online persona get you a job? And how could it cost you one?

These days there are lots of ways to find things you can do to bolster your CV and make finding a job easier when you enter the job market. Here are five good ways to help improve your job prospects as a student.

Studying abroad in Ireland may not be to be as popular an option as studying in other places around the world like England, USA or Australia. But Dublin, Ireland’s vibrant and culturally rich capital, is the perfect city to study in - with its fantastic food and culture, emerald landscapes and a guaranteed warm welcome.

The one thing all creatives have in common is a shared dislike for discouraging comments –if we had a pound for every time we heard them, we wouldn’t need to work at all!

It can be hard to draw the line between what’s professional and what’s not when it comes to behaviour on social media. However, there are some do’s and some don’t which are truly universal.

Staying organised reduces stress, helping you get things done on time and produce better work. We all know how difficult it can be to balance a social life, grades and getting enough sleep. While achieving all three at once is (sometimes) impossible, being organised brings you a couple of steps closer.

When you say that you’re looking for a job, one site gets thrown at you again and again: LinkedIn. Don't worry if you are late to the game; LinkedIn is actually really simple.

When it comes to university, the words ‘stress’ and ‘procrastination’ are said more times than you have had roast dinners. But what do they mean? What forms do they come in and how can you deal with them?