The New Year offers us all the chance to start fresh. If you feel like your career has stagnated, 2025 could be the perfect opportunity to make a change. Whether that means looking for a new role in your current sector or switching careers entirely, you’re going to need a […]
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As a manager, ensuring that your employees are happy and comfortable should be a top priority. Happy employees make for productive employees, so it’s in the best interests of you and your business to stay on top of employee welfare. Creating an accessible workplace is key to this, particularly if […]
Finding a job isn’t easy right now, as we’ve covered in the past. Maybe it’s time to reskill, change direction, and broaden your horizons. So, where do you start? If you’re ready for a change, but don’t know where to go from here, we’ve got a list of emerging industries […]
The job market is really up in the air at the moment. Employees are complaining that they can’t find work and employers are complaining that they can’t find talent. You’d think it would be as simple as matchmaking, and yet, we job matchmakers are seeing a lot of patterns in […]
The gig economy has vastly grown over recent decades. The name might bring about the idea of rock stars in your local pub, but it actually offers a range of flexibility that traditional working models don’t – or didn’t. As of 2022, it was estimated that around 4.4 million people […]
A highly underrated aspect of writing a CV and putting your best foot forward in an interview is your soft skills. Soft skills in of themselves are pretty underrated. You can’t get a degree in them (often), and you can’t really prove them the way you would technique with a […]
Have you noticed, since the lifting of lockdown, a lot more interviews and “screening calls” happening over a Zoom or Teams meeting? Video call interviews are becoming the norm, and it makes sense. You can do it anywhere, without the commute, without taking up more time and energy than necessary, […]
At the close of the past election, the UK has found itself with a new government leading. But now that means that Labour has to get to work on implementing the changes it promised during its campaign. What are these changes? Well, we were most interested in the New Deal […]
The pursuit of career advancement can be a long and arduous process. You might feel stuck where you are. Maybe a pay rise is out of reach, a new position seems impossible to find, something always seems to get in your way, and usually, due to corporate speak politeness, people […]
It’s not fun to think about, but the country’s job market is currently tilted in favour of employers, making it more of a buyer’s market and more of a headache for jobseekers. According to data from the Office for National Statistics, Scotland’s unemployment rate stood at 3.5% in the three […]