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What to expect if you are invited to an Assessment Centre

7 June 2010

In addition to job interviews, employers are increasingly using assessment days as a way of selecting the very best candidates. So, if you have been invited to attend an assessment centre WELL DONE! It shows that you are a strong candidate and the employer would like to see more from you. Assessment centres can be [...]

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The Art of staying Positive during a Job Interview

18 May 2010

The main reason many of us look to find a new job is because we are unhappy in the position we already have. Maybe it’s a bad boss, poor pay or lack of career progression. For many of us, simply getting out of bed in the morning ready to face a long hard day at [...]

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School Leavers causing concern amongst UK Employers

17 May 2010

According to the CBI, thousands of UK businesses believe that they are struggling to recruit a good calibre of school leavers into a wide range of job vacancies. They believe they are left to re-educate sixteen year olds who are leaving school with a poor grasp on written and spoken English and Mathematics.  This claim [...]

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Manage Your Social Media Profile when Job Hunting

29 April 2010

The popularity of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter is increasing year after year, with many of us creating profiles packed full of photos, links, discussions and opinions. Whilst social networking sites are a great way of staying in touch with friends and family you need to remember that they can also be accessed [...]

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Tesco continues to Create New Jobs as Profits Surge

22 April 2010

UK supermarket giant has again revealed staggering trading results, with a 9.3% rise in net profit up to fiscal year end Feb 2010. Encouragingly, a large proportion of this profit will be re-invested back into the UK as the retailer reveals plans to create 9,000 British jobs this year. Expansion will be in the firms [...]

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Televised Leaders Debate – The Biggest Job Interview in the UK Right Now

22 April 2010

You can barely turn on the TV or open a newspaper  in the UK right now without hearing or reading about the General Election. Perhaps the most interesting feature of this particular election is the televised debates, the second of which will be held tonight in Bristol, hosted by Sky News. Televised debates are not [...]

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Delight in Sunderland as Nissan Invests £420m into Car Plant

19 March 2010

News that Japanese car giant Nissan is to invest £420 million into its Sunderland car plant were met with cries of joy this week. The news means that for the foreseeable future jobs at the plant are safe. This contrasts with just a couple of months ago when the car maker revealed that over 1000 [...]

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Job Vacancies delivered straight to your Mobile Phone

12 March 2010

Job Centre Plus, the government’s employment agency, has developed an app compatible with the iPhone and Google’s Android handsets that will help job seekers get back to work. The app will be simple to use and just like an online job search users will be able to search by keyword, location and salary. Those lucky [...]

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Councils set to Cut up to 25,000 Jobs in England

2 March 2010

It’s bad news for councils workers throughout England as it has been revealed from a survey conducted by the BBC that councils across the country need to make big job cuts in a bid to save money. Local government is the UK’s biggest employer, with around 2 million people working in jobs with the council. [...]

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