Career fairs can feel more like Carnaby Street market than an opportunity to introduce yourself to prospective employers. The truth is that whether or not they have vacancies many companies attend career fairs and other recruiting events. Shopping for talent is part of their development strategy. In many cases the CVs they collect will [...]
As we move into the new year there is a tendency for people to make grandiose resolutions. “New year, new me” has become little more than a comical meme and yet when January 1st 2017 arrives we are all tempted to take stock of our place in life and define new objectives. In the [...]
Career planning for teenager’s can be scary. There are many resources both within schools and on the internet designed specifically to help students think about life after school. However, the volume and scope of information is often intimidating and could cause some to stick their head in the sand, leading to a sort of [...]
As structure of industries shift and change we see an increasing number of people who become disenfranchised. Even those who manage to gain steady, full time employment are on edge, wondering if they will remain employable. Employability, we are discovering, is not just a matter of finding employment or gaining a set of technical [...]
An apprenticeship is one of the oldest and most widely spread forms of learning. Every culture and civilisation has a rich tradition of young people, leaving childhood formally to work side by side with an older, wiser, skilled person to learn a trade. Often this arrangement was a “live in” situation, where young men [...]
My Christmas experiences have only ever been wonderful and it continues to be my wish that this rings true for every and anybody who celebrates Christmas. When my daughter was small, we would take great pleasure in dreaming up what to give her father, uncles, and aunties. And unbeknownst to her, she revealed her [...]
“I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay. Ain't it sad. And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me. That's too bad. In my dreams I have a plan…” ABBA. So what is your plan to earn post school or [...]
When it comes to post 16 options, many school leavers struggle to try to decide what to do next. There is a lot of positive propaganda surrounding the many options, and it can be difficult to discern which is right for you. With few exceptions, the majority of school leavers will opt for one [...]
Advising a teenager is never easy, even more so when the teenager is your son or daughter. As a parent, I ask myself, am I telling them the right things, am I advising them to do the things I would have done or what is best for them? Is their world so different from [...]
After all of the hard work and rigor of getting your degree, Masters or PhD, there is a special kind of irony in facing even more testing in order to get a job. Increasingly employers are deploying psychometric testing as an integral part of their hiring process; graduates and post-graduates are reasonably concerned. So [...]
