About the Author

After graduating with a degree in International Relations from Sussex University, Melanie King worked for two years in Thailand, first with hill tribe refugees temporarily housed in camps, then as a journalist on a national newspaper. She has worked and travelled extensively around the globe with jobs that have included helping victims of torture, writing CVs for Bosnian refugees, editing publications at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, and working in Brussels as Assistant to the Director of the Institute for South and South-East Asian Affairs. In 1991, King trained as a careers adviser and spent 12 years advising school, college and university students in various settings. Based in Oxfordshire, she now works as a freelance careers adviser and writer.