About nine years ago before I embarked on my media career, I had a job as a part time library assistant, serving several libraries in the East London borough. A year into the job, a vacancy came up for a Saturday Library Supervisor position with considerably more pay, so of course I applied for [...]
Tagged: interview, job-hunting, mindset, preparation, psychology, success
If you’re one of the increasingly diminishing number of jobseekers who have yet to join LinkedIn, you could be making your job hunting quest a lot harder than it needs to be. There are many benefits of becoming a part of this global network of roughly 150 million connected professionals (and before you ask, [...]
Tagged: employers, employment, headhunting, job search, job-hunting, LinkedIn, social media
You’ve seen the advert, you’ve read the job description and person specification three times over and you know you couldn’t be any more right for this job if they wrote your name on it! So you apply with much excitement – the “signs” are there; this feels right so it must be right. And [...]
Tagged: career, disappointment, employment, job search, job-hunting, rejection
You may have heard the word “employability” bandied around by employers, careers advisors, and even politicians, but what on earth does it actually mean? I asked David Shindler, Employability coach and author of Learning to Leap, a Guide to Being More Employable, to take over this week’s blog post and explain the concept to [...]
Tagged: career, employability, employers, employment, graduates, jargon demystified
What’s more important – having a good CV or a good cover letter…? The answer? Both! Cover letters are just as important as CVs because a good cover letter gets your CV through the door and a good CV then goes on to qualify you for an interview! If you know anything about my [...]
Tagged: cover letter, employment, job application, job search, job-hunting, mistakes, new career
When Twitter first launched in 2006, some people eyed it with ‘big-brother-watching-you’ type suspicion; some dismissed it as the latest social media “craze”, and a large part of society (myself included) ignored it – after all, we were still trying to get our heads round this whole Facebook thing. Fast forward just six years [...]
Tagged: career, job search, job-hunting, media, networking, online recruitment, social media, technology, Twitter
Okay, so New Year resolutions are a little played out – everyone’s making them, everyone’s talking about them, and until the end of January everyone…well, most people…will be keeping them so they certainly won’t be going away any time soon. Personally, I’m not a fan of resolutions – I used to be (though I [...]
Tagged: career, CV, employment, enterprise, events, future, goals, income, job market, job search, job-hunting, key skills, new career, new year, social media
I was invited to the Guardian Careers office last week to share my predictions on what I think the job market will look like for graduates in 2012 (scroll down to listen to the podcast). There are three main areas I believe we will see a rise of not just for graduates, but for jobseekers [...]
Tagged: career, degrees, digital, enterprise, future, graduates, Guardian careers, hobbies, interests and activities, job market, job search, job trends, job-hunting, podcast, predictions, technology, university