Tom Mursell is a young entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

, media spokesperson and speaker in the area of careers advice and jobs. He was a participant in the Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 documentary Yeardot

Yeardot

Yeardot is a television and web production for Channel 4 by So Television and . It began on 30 June 2008, and follows the lives of fifteen young people from across the United Kingdom as they go through a pivotal year in each of their lives...

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

Projects

Tom founded the school leaver website 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 unemployment

Unemployment

Unemployment , as defined by the International Labour Organization, occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively sought work within the past four weeks...

, career advice and education. Tom was featured as a participant in the Channel 4 Yeardot

Yeardot

Yeardot is a television and web production for Channel 4 by So Television and . It began on 30 June 2008, and follows the lives of fifteen young people from across the United Kingdom as they go through a pivotal year in each of their lives...

 television and web project by SO Television

SO Television

So Television is a production company established in 1998, founded by Irish comedian Graham Norton and Graham Stuart to make high quality entertainment television.. It is now one of the fastest growing independent production companies in the UK and stands at number 29 in the INDIES League 2005...

 (founded by Graham Norton

Graham Norton

Graham William Walker, known by his stage name Graham Norton , is an Irish actor, comedian, television presenter and columnist...

) 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 BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...

 alongside Online Dragons' Den 'dragon' Shaf Rasul, BBC Breakfast

BBC Breakfast

BBC Breakfast is the morning television news programme simulcast on BBC One and the BBC News channel. It is presented live from BBC Television Centre in White City, West London, and contains a mixture of news, sport, weather, business and feature items...

 news, The Sun

The Sun (newspaper)

The Sun is a daily national tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and owned by News Corporation. Sister editions are published in Glasgow and Dublin...

and The Times

The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

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External links

• notgoingtouni.co.uk