Job Market Grows Despite Ongoing Eurozone Fears
Despite fears from leading economists that 2012 may be turning into a carbon copy of 2011, with sovereign bond markets beginning spring with a healthy spring in their step before investor confidence begins to pile on points to bond yields through the summer, it would appear that the job market seems to be picking up [...]
Click here to continue reading7 Ways To Make Yourself Irreplaceable In The Office
In order to protect yourself from the next round of layoffs, you need to convince your employers that you’re valuable and that your existence alone benefits the company. “Today’s business environment doesn’t allow for satisfaction with the status quo. It requires constant growth and change,” writes Mark Samuel in his book Making Yourself Indispensable: The Power of Personal [...]
Click here to continue reading10 Ways to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job
Searching for a job can suck if you constrain yourself to the typical tools such as online jobs boards, trade publications, CraigsList, and networking with only your close friends. In these kinds of times, you need to use all the weapons that you can, and one that many people don’t—or at least don’t use to [...]
Click here to continue readingWhy Are Job Seeking Linguists So Upbeat?
As a graduate, one could be forgiven for descending into a pessimistic malaise more closely associated to fin de siècle Francethan how we imagined the beginnings of the 21st century would be. For a start, we still do not have hover boots. But with the timer on the world economy microwave fast approaching ping and [...]
Click here to continue readingRoll on… Winter?
As we come to the end of Summer, it seems like a good time to take stock of things. Summer is always a tricky time to be looking for a job, or indeed looking to fill one. Desks are empty, tumbleweed blows past the office water machine and the forgotten bottle of factor 30 by [...]
Click here to continue readingAre 50% of People Really Unhappy in Their Job?
Times are strange in the job market at the minute; Reed’s annual survey of the UK job scene reveals the usual unsurprising statistics such as the seemingly eternal pay gap between male and female workers, but also some more unique ones that are a direct result of the macro-economic climate and the global downturn. Most [...]
Click here to continue readingCreative Job Hunting: the Hunter Becomes the Hunted
Times are tough. So tough that unemployed US citizen Mork Encino has invited all-comers to hunt him down and potentially kill him, in exchange for a large bounty. “I’m faster than a wild turkey,” says Encino on his website, HuntMe4Sport.com, “smart as any GODDAMN wild boar and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for the [...]
Click here to continue readingJob Interview Tips: Expert Advice For Graduates
Don’t forget, practice makes perfect: You might find it useful to think of your interview as a performance. As with any performance, practice makes perfect. It might not always be practical to learn your answers like an actor learns lines, but you should certainly have considered the rough outlines of how you will answer any [...]
Click here to continue readingUnemployment Fears as Recovery Slows
British recruiters filled permanent vacancies at the slowest pace in almost two years in June, a survey showed on Wednesday, adding to worries about the strength of the economic recovery. Research for the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and accountants KPMG showed private sector job creation slowed at a time when the government is ramping [...]
Click here to continue reading20,000 Students Without a Job After Leaving University
Almost one-in-10 students failed to find a job after leaving university last year amid a continuing squeeze on graduate positions, figures show. Some 20,000 former students were unemployed six months after finishing courses – 50 per cent up on the jobless rate before the recession. Official data shows that students taking media and computing degrees [...]
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