Professional skills helped me through, says survivor
3 April 2012
Purchasing skills learnt on the job helped procurement professional Jackie Carey come close to winning the £1 million jackpot on the recent television series Survivor.
“It’s difficult to turn off your professional side in your private life and having a clear strategy helped me to know what I wanted to get out of it,” Carey told SM. “The skills included influencing people and debating, and I gained a lot of confidence.”
Carey, from Woking, Surrey, a 32-year-old purchasing executive in the engineering procurement department of...