Career insights and advice

Explore expert career insights and practical guidance for thriving in the whisky industry. Discover tips, advice, and stories to help you navigate and grow your career in this dynamic, flavourful field.
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Whisky Jobs  

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What is a “whisky job”? Well, the more that I welcome new vacancies on to the Spirited Careers site, the more I realise that a…

Myth Busting Diversity and Inclusion

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Have you heard any of these? DE&I is just about gender and race. DE&I is about exclusivity rather than inclusivity. DE&I is for HR, not…

Top tips for selling your transferable skills!

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The Scotch Whisky industry supports many different jobs, actually far more than you might initially imagine.  As you can see from our careers map, you…

Midlife career change and relocation for work

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Many people are choosing to make significant life changes whilst in pursuit of the next step in their career. For some that might mean reducing…

Career change at 40: Making a career change at midlife

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In the first part of our career changers mini-series, we focus on midlife career changes, those people in their 40s who would like to make…

Scottish DRS can go ahead without glass

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The UK government has written to the Scottish Government setting out the conditions for an exemption to the UK Internal Market Act which would enable…
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