If there’s one thing that most job-seekers have in common it’s the fact that they apply for lots of jobs and never hear back from the recruiter or employer. With the sheer numbers of applicants for every job vacancy it’s an unfortunate fact of life at the moment – recruiters and employers alike claim that [...]
Thanks to the mechanical engineering sector being such a rewarding, challenging and enjoyable area to work in, it is a very competitive field to get a job in; but due to continuous demand, there are always openings available. The above also ensures that any job attained in the sector is a stable one with a [...]
If you’re looking for a job, you’ve got to look in as many places and in as many ways as possible. It might have been acceptable at one time to simply look at the ads in your local paper or jobcentre, however these days it’s essential to do so much more. With fewer jobs around [...]
Health and safety in the workplace is perhaps better now than it has ever been. Even in environments of high risk, legislation like the 1974 Health and Safety in the Workplace Act has been protecting employees while at work. However, no matter how stringent the legislation, mistakes can still be made and accidents can still [...]
Whilst it’s not paid work, or a job, being an Executive or holding Grant of Probate over a will is a big responsibility. It involves a lot of work and legal duties. Whilst it can be complicated, it can nonetheless be very rewarding; something you could arguably put on your CV if you needed to [...]
They may be organised by your local jobcentre, Chamber of Commerce or even university, but regardless of the organiser, the thinking behind them is the same – to connect job-seekers with employers. What are we referring to? The job fair of course. If you are being truly proactive with your job search and there is [...]
As anyone looking for a job at the moment will vouch for, it’s not particularly easy, regardless of where you are at in your career journey. Of course if your ‘career’ has not actually started yet, you may feel it is an even harder situation – it doesn’t need to be though, provided you get [...]
Sales Executives are everywhere! In fact, most organisations, whether they offer a service or a product, employ sales executives. It makes sense really. There’s no point having a business without having someone who is responsible for telling the consumer or business why they should part with their hard earned cash and buy what is on [...]
Growth in the UK economy is slowing down. A global rating agency, Fitch, downgraded the UK’s triple-A rating by one notch to AA+ because the UK’s economic climate is deteriorating. In Europe overall, the picture is not rosy. Cyprus is the latest euro-zone country to receive full bail-out after Greece, Ireland and Portugal, while Spain [...]
You might just be having a bad day or a bad week or you may think that you’ve made a big mistake with your life choices. Whatever the reason, the thought of changing careers does enter many people’s minds at one point or another. As we all know though, there is a big difference between [...]
You don’t need to work for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to know that unemployment is a serious problem in the UK. Last month it rose to 2.56m, which suggests that vacancies are scarce and competition for those that are actually available is fierce. The employment market as a whole is in dire [...]
Apart from Doctors, there aren’t too many other professions where the customer has to put total faith in the decisions that the ‘staff member’ makes. Whilst of course Doctors deal with physical bodies, and mechanics deal with fixing the bodies and insides of the cars that we drive daily, not enough credit is often given [...]