Tom Mursell is a young

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entreprene ...

, media spokesperson and speaker in the area of careers advice and jobs. He was a participant in the

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documentary Yeardot which followed 15 young people over the period of 12 months.

Projects

Tom founded the school leaver websit
notgoingtouni.co.uk
which is "dedicated to helping young people make informed decisions about their future by showing the opportunities that exist outside of university." The website has won awards including 'Best Young Persons Website' and the website has won Tom a place as one of the 'Future 100 Young Entrepreneurs'.

Media

Mursell is frequently featured on TV, radio and print, commenting on topics such as youth

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, career advice and education. Tom was featured as a participant in the Channel 4 Yeardot television and web project by SO Television (founded by

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) which followed Mursell and fourteen other participants over the course of 12 months, logging their achievements and milestones. Tom is often used to comment in the media, recent credits include a jobs panel for

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alongside Online Dragons' Den 'dragon' Shaf Rasul,

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news, and ''

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''.

References

External links

notgoingtouni.co.uk
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