How to get your CV to stand out is often a major concern for job seekers. Most recruiters will admit that the first few seconds’ scanning is sometimes all they need to decide if they want to review an application in more detail.
In this video, experienced recruiter Steve Ward tells us about 5 of the things that you can do to help make sure that you pass the initial screening…
For more advice on CVs check out our guest blog How to Write a CV That Works and also read our post 4 Questions to Ask Yourself When You Write Your CV.
Most of the time, if you mention work and parenthood in the same sentence, it’s because there’s a clash of some sort. Late hours at the office, or emails on weekends, or the employer’s favourite, parental leave, normally set up the two biggest parts of life in opposition to one another. But, in fact, the skills you learn in both are very transferable, and after taking leave to look after a new baby, you might find yourself coming back a whole lot better trained for your job than you were before. Here are 6 keys skills that parenthood will teach you, which are irreplaceable in the workplace…
There was probably a time when showing up 5 minutes late didn’t seem all that bad. But when there are kids involved, being on time is crucial. No matter how prone to tardiness you normally are, you can train yourself to be punctual. And all of sudden, you find yourself aware of every spare 5 minutes, and all the things you can squeeze into them. Forget frittering away time on social media sites; after becoming a parent you’ll be an efficiency machine. Continue reading “6 Parenting Skills That Can Make You a Better Employee” »
While a career in IT may be one of the more secure out there, it also remains one of the most misunderstood. IT has a wealth of specialist terms and vocabulary that can be bewildering to the layperson. With that in mind, we’ve put together these IT job charades to test your knowledge (and creative thinking!).
Each set of images represents an IT role, concept or programme. Whether you’re a beginner trying to brush up your knowledge, or if you work in IT and deciphering code has become easier than reading words, see how many you can guess:
There is a lot of advice available for the things you need to be doing to put yourself in the best position to secure a new role, but it’s not always easy to find out about the things that you may already be doing that might de detracting from your search.
In this video Katrina Collier, a speaker and trainer in how to use social and digital tools in the job search, looks at the 5 top mistakes that people make…
You may also like to check out Katrina’s advice on how to best use Google+ and the benefits of blogging as part of your search
In the last few years, most people have been feeling some financial changes. Everything has tightened up a bit, and there’s not quite as much extra money floating around as there was before. But, in fact, according to several recent studies, there are still some professions making plenty of money. The results of the surveys offer an interesting insight into which jobs society seems to think of as being the most valuable. This is what some of the best-paid people have found themselves doing…
Unsurprisingly, CEOs are the best paid bunch out there, with an average salary of over £120,000, according to a recently published report by This is Money. To make real money, it seems, it doesn’t matter what you do, you just have to be in charge.
Becoming a pilot is possibly the best paid vocational career. With salaries that average nearly £78,000, pilots prove that you don’t have to work directly with money in order to make a whole lot of it.
In any society, one job that people really value is that of keeping us all alive and well. In the UK, medical practitioners are high up on the list of high-earners, making an average of just under £70,000 a year. Continue reading “The 10 Best Paid Jobs Out There” »
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