We all have our favourite job boards that we use to search for jobs online. But the online jobs market is a saturated place, and many of the big sites often flatter to deceive. With this in mind we wanted to take a look at some of the new pretenders that are currently hitting the online […]
Redundancy is traumatic – it’s generally recognised as one of the worst things that can happen to a person, right up there with a death in the family. Dealing with it is personal. There are no prescriptive methods that work for everyone. But one thing is certain: you will have a story about what happened. It’s […]
Career book “How to Search and Apply for Jobs”, hits the ‘shelves’… 10 months ago, TheEmployable faced redundancy. A consultation was called. We knew, whilst the formalities had to be completed, that the writing was very much ‘on the wall’. However, with a career history in management, recruitment, sales and HR, and with a little […]
Universal Jobmatch website – any good? The Diary of an employable blogaholic… When TheEmployable heard that the Universal Jobmatch website would “revolutionise” the jobsearch for the unemployed we thought it was best to take a look and we were sorely disappointed… Revolutionary? Maybe 15 years ago…Here, we explain why… When Iain Duncan Smith announced the launch […]
TheEmployable love highlighting the wackiest and cleverest jobsearch stories from across the globe. Over the last few years, with a global recession in full swing, it appears that jobseekers are getting increasingly silly yet savvy with their job search tactics – from the Dear Lisa Rudgers campaign, to the two BuyMyFace graduates, to the recent […]