Career advice
How To Balance Working Full-Time With Looking For A New Job
Looking for a new job while still in full-time employment can pose quite the conundrum: you need the stability of employment in order to carry on paying the bills, but you also need the free time and mental energy to devote to your job search – especially given the average UK jobseeker spends 11 hours…
Read MoreHow to Futureproof Your Career: 5 Essential Strategies Anyone Can Follow
According to a recent shocking statistic from the World Economic Forum, around 14 million jobs won’t exist by 2028. Experts mainly put this down to advances in AI, business transformation, and slow economic growth. It seems pretty clear that no matter what industry you’re in, working life as we know it is set to change.…
Read More4 Ways To Add Some Personality To Your CV (While Keeping It Professional!)
Take a moment, if you will, to think about the plight of your average recruiter or hiring manager. A huge part of their job is staring at CVs day in, day out. Although they’re highly skilled at picking out the most relevant parts and assessing whether a candidate is a good fit for a role,…
Read More5 Mistakes You’re Probably Making When Applying For A New Job (Plus Pro Tips!)
Applying for a new job can be a strange mixture of tedium, stress and excitement. Some jobseekers are lucky and manage to bag an interview after only applying for a few roles, while for others, the process can stretch on for weeks or months. If you’re not hearing back from any of the jobs you…
Read MoreHow To Reinvent Your Career When You’re Feeling Stuck In A Rut
It used to be the case that a career was something you picked in your 20s, worked hard at, and lived out your days happily ever after. However, in the words of Bob Dylan, the times they are a-changin’. Although our ideas about working life have been gradually becoming more fluid for decades, Covid threw…
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