Latest Insights: Your Career

In order to ensure that your job search is a success and that you find the dream role you are looking for, you need to create your own Personal Marketing Plan and Toolkit . Don't know where to start? Here are the key steps to help you get started: Ideally you should try to complete or start each step before you start actively looking for a new role. Much of what you need to do, you may already have done, such as preparing your CV and deciding what you want to do, but it a goo

Starting your Job Search With the market as it is today – with so much information and sources of advice out there – you must be focused on your job search and ensure that you take all the necessary steps to make it happen whilst covering all the bases. If you are currently between roles, then you should treat finding a new job as a full-time job. If you have been made redundant for example, it may be tempting to take 3-12 months off and then look for a job; however, if you g

Where have all the jobs gone? I have always assumed that (historically) there are around 1million job vacancies available at any one time, both those advertised and those not, as well as those where the employer will take someone on who will add to their business, but it was not a formal vacancy. This is not the full picture, however. In my forty odd years in the employment and career business I have been through 5 or 6 ‘sticky’ periods (recessions) during which doom and gloo

​ Zoomed, Hungout, TEAMED, WhatsApped or Skyped? ​ By now, we should all be used to those endless online TEAMS meetings at work, where we...

Tricky interview questions and how best to answer them Why do you want to work for us? And other tricky interview questions. So, you’ve...

September is traditionally the start of the busiest recruitment period, when people come back from holiday and decide they need a change....

“I’ve been headhunted!” It’s a great feeling to be ‘headhunted’, you feel special because you have been hand picked by a company, giving...

With a four day week feeling like a five day week nowadays and the speed of change within employment, more people are moving to 'rest' through a Portfolio Career. Add in the need to work from home or on a hybrid basis and this can seem an attractive career move. Many of us are looking to make big changes to our professional and personal lives through ‘resetting’ them. Recent reports suggest that many of us already have and more than one in five workers are planning to do so i

You see an advert for a job that you feel is right up your street, eagerly fill out the application and send it off and wait for the call to interview. But then, nothing happens, for weeks… So, why does it take so long for you and your application to go through the recruitment system, particularly in our ATS/AI driven world? Most candidates do not appreciate just how long it takes once they are in the ‘system’ - what we call the Waiting Game. To successfully play this you nee

Why doesn't my CV fit? You may well see an advertisement online or a job description that you feel is the ‘perfect’ fit for you and your...

If you apply for a job, a college/university course, or anything for that matter, at some point you will be interviewed. In our digital age, that might be by an AI Assistant online, by video or, most likely, face to face with a real person (which is the scary bit). We all want to do well at interview and be judged positively, irrespective of whether we get offered the job or not. An interview is an opportunity for the employer to find out about you, if you are suitable for th

There are hundreds of books, guides, articles and online courses on writing a CV. But you don’t want just a CV, you want a winning CV. How do you class a CV as a winning one? Well, the only purpose of a CV is to get you an interview, so if it does that it is a winning CV! In our book CV’s are quite simple really, you just need to be aware of what information to put in it, as well as what not to put in it, the format and the layout. Then a few pointers on how to make it a winn

This is the time of year that all students get a bit twitchy about their futures; have they made the right next step choice or they may...

All firms need to be mindful of succession planning: rather than wait for key staff to move on or retire, you can actively plan for such...

So, you have done all the usual job search stuff such as looking at all the job boards, company career sites, LinkedIn jobs pages and...

With AI and our Digital Age there are certain sectors that are booming now – and will continue to do so – and sectors where there is a...

For recruiters (which includes the hiring manager at the client) counter offers are a nightmare; after many months the project is near to...

Within five years 30% of the workforce will be Gen Z. Is the world of work ready for this? Interestingly, over the last couple of years there has been quite a lot of research* undertaken into Gen Z and what they want from a job and a career, and the results may surprise some of you. Who are Gen Z? Most agree that they are those individuals born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s, so they will be around 18 to 28/30 years of age in the workplace in 2025. This is the generati

If you feel your current role lacks challenge, you want more responsibility or you are in need of a better salary package, now might be the time to see if you can move internally and get promoted. Taking charge of your career in your current organisation means preparing yourself for promotion and beyond. There are several steps you can take to do this, bearing in mind that if it doesn’t work at least you have flagged up to your company (and yourself) that you are ambitious an

When it comes to your career having a treasure chest of personal skills – ‘soft-skills’ – in your arsenal will go a long way to your...