Thursday, August 20th, 2009 - Article, Jobs Abroad, career management, education, employment, job search, university

A Level Economics Today is the day on which the 2009 A level results are announced. Yet again – surprise – a record-breaking number have been awarded A grades. More than one in four entries – 26.7% – got the top grade, up from 25.9% last year and the overall pass rate rose to 97.5%, [...]

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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 - Article, career planning, credit crunch, degree, discipline, economics, education, employment, government jobs, job hunting

Army Careers This evening, the BBC’s popular magazine programme The One Show had as its first article, the former ITV Loose Women presenter and notable journalist Kaye Adams reporting from Bridgend, on the issue of the British Armed Forces recruiting in economically deprived areas. Adams interviewed two mothers – one of a soldier killed in [...]

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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 - Article, credit crunch, economics, employment, government jobs, immigration, job search, politics, recruitment, redundancy, unemployment

April 2009 UK Employment Data photo credit: C-Ali I normally write about UK Employment data at about this time of the month, but have delayed this months thoughts on UK employment prospects as the Bank of England held their monthly conference today. If you are going to comment about employment, then in reality it doesn’t [...]

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Friday, April 24th, 2009 - Article, candidate, career management, career planning, cover letter, credit crunch, education, employment, tutorial

Value of a Cover Letter? photo credit: ahisgett Many ask, and you may well be one of them: what is the value of a Cover Letter? Here is a very personal story which lead to the offer of employment before the person in question was of legally employable age – and all she wrote was [...]

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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 - Article, career management, construction jobs, economics, education, employment, salary negotiation, unemployment

UK Employment Data photo credit: El mundo de Laura Amid the who-ha of Alastair Darling’s 2009 UK Budget – which burdened every man, woman and child in the UK with £12,000 of debt until at least 2017 – there was the release on Tuesday of UK Employment data to February 2009. In summary, it wasn’t [...]

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