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William McBride

William McBride

Newcastle,United Kingdom

Summary

Highly skilled professional with expertise in organisational skills, leadership abilities, and team coordination. Adept at presentation development and video editing, demonstrating strong debate and people skills. Committed to leveraging these competencies to drive success in future career endeavours.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work history

Forage Content Branding & Design Simulation

Forage
09.2025 - 09.2025
  • Completed a job simulation focused on brand strategy, product design, and marketing execution.
  • Developed creative content and analyzed brand values to align with target audiences.
  • Designed a customizable product concept and prepared marketing collateral to support a launch.
  • Researched influencer partnerships and created a social media campaign strategy.
  • Planned and pitched an engaging event concept to showcase a new product release.

Electronic Arts Product Management Job Simulation

Electronic Arts
09.2025 - 09.2025
  • Completed a job simulation where I developed a solid understanding of different Key Product Indicators, and selected the most appropriate KPIs for measuring and assessing specific business problems related to a strategy RPG mobile game.
  • Demonstrated my knowledge of key performance indicators within the video game industry.
  • Broke down tasks for creating a data-driven video game presentation.

NSW Government Policy Worker Virtual Experience

New South Wales Government
09.2025 - 09.2025
  • Completed a job simulation focused on policy at the NSW Government
  • This allowed me to explore international policy-making in Australia, something I was particularly interested in after doing an A-level in politics.
  • Evaluated providers for healthy food options in school canteens
  • Presented recommendations for involving employees in making their workplaces safer

Law work experience

Sintons
Newcastle
- 07.2023
  • Company Overview: Sintons, a law firm in Newcastle
  • I have experience working for Sintons, a law firm in Newcastle which gave me a broad insight into all areas of law including criminal law where I attended a number court cases in Newcastle, I have also completed work experience in Medical law as I have a parent who works full time in medical law related to extreme medical cases which require immediate legal action. My law work experience allowed me to experience an area of work which I show great interest in and built the foundations for a career in law in the future.

Journalism Work experience

Autocar
, United Kingdom
06.2023 - 06.2023
  • Company Overview: Autocar, the UK's leading motoring magazine
  • I completed work experience at Autocar, the UK's leading motoring magazine, which gave me experience relating to media, journalism and how to write for the press. It gave me useful journalistic skills and proved very useful if I ever wished to go into a career relating to the press, especially considering I am also completing an NCTJ foundation journalism course.

Education

GCSEs and A-levels -

Newcastle School for Boys
Newcastle upon Tyne

Bachelor of Arts - Business and Media & Communication

Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
09.2024 -

Skills

  • Organizational skills
  • Leadership abilities
  • Team coordination
  • Presentation development
  • Video editing
  • Debate skills
  • People skills

Profile

  • Name: William McBride
  • Date of Birth: 2006-04-13
  • Place of Birth: Newcastle, United Kingdom

Sixth Form Subject

  • A-level Religious studies
  • A-level Politics
  • A-level Business

Timeline

Forage Content Branding & Design Simulation

Forage
09.2025 - 09.2025

Electronic Arts Product Management Job Simulation

Electronic Arts
09.2025 - 09.2025

NSW Government Policy Worker Virtual Experience

New South Wales Government
09.2025 - 09.2025

Bachelor of Arts - Business and Media & Communication

Newcastle University
09.2024 -

Journalism Work experience

Autocar
06.2023 - 06.2023

Law work experience

Sintons
- 07.2023

GCSEs and A-levels -

Newcastle School for Boys
William McBride