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Founded in 2021, Silverpen Careers is a global career consultancy. We combine a client-focused approach with highly personalised advice to help clients identify and achieve their career goals. Our clients all work with professional mentors who are pursuing successful careers in the relevant industry and have studied the relevant subject at a leading university. 

Our team of specialists provide services across a wide range of sectors. We offer workshops to schools, colleges, universities and corporate institutions as well as sessions to private clients. 

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Silverpen was created with a vision to help young individuals identify their strengths, passions and ambitions and to equip them with the tools to access the opportunities available.

Our team of specialists at Silverpen provide tailored support to individuals through their most formative journey – from school, through university to starting the perfect career. 

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Nicola Solomou

Nicola graduated from King’s College London with an LLB in Law and she obtained an MSc in Comparative Criminal Justice from Leiden University.

Nicola’s career as a UK qualified lawyer at an international law firm in London and Dubai has developed her industry specific knowledge, professional skill set and global network. Her knowledge spans across multiple industries, corporations and universities. Combined with her role as a visiting lecturer at a University in London, her higher education in London, in the Netherlands and Sweden has developed her knowledge of the university processes involved as well as her pedagogical approach. 

Through Nicola’s professional and academic trajectory combined with her book of contacts, she is in a unique position to understand the knowledge, skills and experience required to help individuals enter competitive industries and educational institutions across the globe.

Nicola was a guest on the King’s College London “Let’s Talk Law” Podcast, which you can listen to here.

She also discussed “How to Network” with the PCD Group, a networking group for private wealth professionals, listen here. 

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Founded in 2021, Silverpen is a modern, professional and global career consultancy. Through highly personalised, expert and ethical advice, we provide the tools to identify and achieve your career goals.

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Dr. Maria Stavrou

Relevant Industries

Healthcare, Science, Research, Psychology, Consultancy 

Professional Background

  • Trained consultant with experience at a large, multinational firm, part of big four. Member of the advisory team, specialising in behavioural science and organisational psychology for a range of projects, both private and governmental.
  • Lectured BSc and MSc Psychology courses, designed assessments and provided assessment feedback.
  • Mentored and trained six postgraduate students to obtain high accuracy and quality neural measurements and co-supervised an MSc Clinical Neuroscience project.
  • Published five peer-reviewed research papers in international journals.
  • Completed a fully funded PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience at Goldsmiths University of London, using psychometric, behavioural, neuroimaging and computational methods.
  • Fluent in Greek.

Professional Advisory Services

  • CV writing, job application & cover letter support
  • LinkedIn Profile writing
  • Tailored interview preparation, mock interviews & feedback (including STAR approach)
  • Internships and work experience application guidance
  • Industry and professional career insight
  • Job search & career plan strategy
  • Career and industry insight
  • Networking skills, presentation skills, communication skills & confidence coaching
  • Networking opportunities
  • Career discovery & planning
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Luis Jimenez

Relevant Industries

Biological Research, Science and Academia

Professional Background

  • Published research microbiologist and geneticist with 7 years experience working in a range of active research laboratories spanning evolutionary ecology, environmental microbiology, structural protein biochemistry, and host-pathogen interactions.
  • Worked as a Laboratory Manager and helped set up all protocols and day-to-day systems for a newly established protein biochemistry laboratory.
  • Guided and taught hundreds of students over a decade of individual and group-based tutoring of tertiary level biology and genetics, focussing on content acquisition, experimental write-up, exam preparation, and scientific poster preparation.
  • Well-versed in the effective planning and implementation of large-scale experimental design with specialty in a huge number of lab-based techniques from bacterial culture to genetic manipulation, protein purification to qPCR, and biochemical and biophysical assays.
  • Graduated with First Class Honours at the top of my cohort and ranked within the top 20 student across the Faculty of Science at Monash University (Australia).
  • Fluent in Spanish.

Professional Advisory Services

  • Scientific writing assistance, including undergraduate reports and theses
  • Scientific poster guidance
  • Scientific presentation skills coaching
  • CV writing, job application & cover letter support
  • Application and cover letter writing assistance
  • Career and industry insight
  • Communication skills coaching
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