Careers Offices In Crisis
Posted on 12:12pm, 7th June 2011 • 32 Comments
If you’re a career changer or student trying to decide between career and degree options, you need to know what’s happening now to state-funded careers offices across the country.
Writing Your CV — Tips For The Ambitious
Posted on 3:55pm, 18th April 2011 • 23 Comments
You’re competing with other well-qualified candidates for a job you’re very keen on – what’s the best way of writing your CV to ensure the employer interviews you?
Graduate Careers UK – The Future
Posted on 4:51pm, 22nd February 2011 • 40 Comments
Are prospects for graduate careers in the UK inching upwards – or in freefall? Whom should you believe? The report of High Fliers Research Ltd on 2011 graduate vacancies and starting salaries at Britain’s leading employers tells you the future’s rosy (at least for a select few).
JobCentre Plus Services As Rated By Its Customers
Posted on 12:59pm, 3rd February 2011 • 44 Comments
JobCentrePlus services will soon be experienced by thousands more Brits. What use will they be to the newly jobless and how customer-friendly are they?
Careers Advice Service Blues
Posted on 6:56pm, 17th October 2010 • 20 Comments
If ever there was a time when young adults needed a good, free careers advice service, it’s now. Sky-rocketing up … costs of a university education. Plummeting down … availability of university places, jobs for teenagers and jobs for new graduates.
Top Interview Questions For New Freelancers
Posted on 4:41pm, 1st October 2010 • 9 Comments
Whether you’re aiming for freelance work because you always wanted to try it or you just need an income between jobs, the top interview questions you’ll face will be different from those you’d expect for a job. You’ll need to adapt your interview techniques to suit. Remember, the top interview questions on the employer’s agenda [...]
Graduate Internships Advice
Posted on 12:05pm, 16th September 2010 • 41 Comments
An unpaid graduate internship’s better than doing nothing, right? It’ll get you work-ready, give you useful contacts in the working world, add to your CV …. This advice is drummed into the ears of desperate, currently jobless new grads until they’re hearing it in their sleep. Hard though it is, remember
Careers Education & Guidance Services Shock Report
Posted on 5:08pm, 2nd September 2010 • 12 Comments
Connexions (the state’s careers education and guidance service for teens) has zero impact on teenagers’ thinking about educational and career choices. Who says? 16,000 young people (in the well-researched 2010 report
Career Counsellors For Positive Change
Posted on 4:46pm, 18th August 2010 • 8 Comments
Bel Mooney’s book Small dogs can save your life started me thinking about career counsellors’ place in the wider scheme of things. Less cute than fluffy white puppies, career counsellors are at least as good at changing lives! They just do it differently….
Work For Politicians!
Posted on 5:59pm, 3rd August 2010 • 13 Comments
Paid work is what most of us do throughout our adult lives; it’s a necessity if we’re to live reasonable lives, pay our bills, keep society functioning and connect to the wider community. Many of us enjoy our work, others hate it but however we feel about it, it’s the glue that holds society together. So [...]