Since 1973, The Job Centre has played a key role in communicating vacancies across the UK and helping the unemployed back into work. In April 2002, after a series of government and departmental changes, these organisational units were renamed “Jobcentre Plus” and now form an integral part of the Department for Work and [...]
Whilst the impact of being unemployed is usually described in financial and practical terms, the psychological effects of not being able to find a job are less frequently discussed. For many years any connection between unemployment and a psychological condition, like depression or anxiety, was viewed in the context [...]
The financial crisis has had a powerful affect on most of the world’s population with so many people from so many backgrounds feeling the pressure. The increased number of unemployed people and the many more individuals who will shortly be facing unemployment are competing for a shrinking job market. In a previous [...]
With so many internet job sites available it is difficult to find the job you are looking for before too many applicants apply and checking job search sites every few hours is too time consuming to be practical. If you are prepared to pay certain job sites will alert you to new [...]
Use good quality paper
This may seem like an obvious point. However, many candidates write an excellent CV but send it off on budget, scruffy paper, invariably making a poor first impression on the employer.
Scan or attach a photograph
An employer may receive dozens of CVs for a particular vacancy. [...]
Whether you are a public sector worker and worried about unemployment, or you operate in the private sector and can foresee job cuts being made, now is the time to take action and prepare yourself for the worst case scenario.
A large part of the problem when people are made redundant is [...]
