TheEmployable are delighted to introduce David Shindler, established Employability Author, Coach and Consultant who has agreed to write a Guest Blog for https://www.theemployable.com/ David Shindler is the author of Learning to Leap, a Guide to Being More Employable. An experienced coach, consultant and facilitator, David helps people at any life stage accelerate their employability. He also […]
Got some Employability tips to share? Recently there has been some rather fab news that unemployment is falling! However, keen not to sit on our laurels, we thought it was wise to pull in a few new employability experts and champions, job seekers and recruiters, to help spread more handy tips, words of wisdom and […]
Regular readers will no doubt be aware that we’ve recently been trying to add a little light humour to the whole business of JobSeeking, Employment, and even Unemployment. With articles such as ‘Movies to get you motivated before a Job Interview’ Songs for the Self Employed and our ‘Job-seeking Soundtrack, we hope you agree that […]
Adzuna’s Unemployment Predictor, which calculates the UK’s unemployment rate 5-6 months ahead of the ONS was released last Friday with a couple of notable statistics. In the initial four months of 2015, the UK unemployment rate saw its first period of stagnation, following what has been a sustained and unprecedented few years of growth. But […]
Now that the worst of the recession is behind us, you may be wondering why you’re still struggling to find employment. It could all just be location and bad luck, but all of us have elements about our employability that we could work on. Here are some interviewing sins that you should try to avoid, […]
Employment in the UK is increasing at a faster rate than in any other European country; that’s according to Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who also claims that the nation’s “jobs-led recovery is making us the envy of Europe”. The announcement coincided with a speech by Prime Minister David Cameron in which he […]
There seems to be a perpetual stream of employment figures released on a near daily basis at the moment. ‘Wages up’ and ‘unemployment down’ seem to have featured quite heavily in recent headlines. Figures such as these can prove reassuring, injecting the public with a sense of confidence that the economic situation is indeed improving […]
If there is one thing that we know here at TheEmployable, it’s that finding a job can be really really difficult… One group which has suffered particularly severely over the past few years is the youth of our society. Ok, so we know that things are improving (albeit slowly) but the fact remains that young […]
For some time, unemployment has been one of the hot-button economic issues in the UK. At the height of the downturn, which still lingers long in the memory of many people, unemployment soared past 2.5 million people. However, as the latest set of stats for the labour market reveals, the number of people out of work […]
Over the past year or so, there has been an air of resurgence about the job market. With the number of people out of work soaring past the 2.5 million mark, there have gradual falls from quarter to quarter,with the last three months of 2013 proving no exception. Over that period, the number of people […]