career advice

Generating New Career Ideas

Posted under career advice on Thursday, April 26, 2012 No Comments

Start At The Beginning When you’re considering a career change the very best starting point I can suggest is for you to begin to capture all your career ideas in one place. Let’s call it an Ideas Bank. One possibility is a folder which you continue reading

You’d Like A Career Change, But What Career?

Posted under career advice on Friday, March 23, 2012 1 Comment

Competition for jobs has never been more fierce, so ensure you have decided on what you really want to do next in your ideal career before jumping from the frying pan to the fire (whether you’re currently working or not working). This requires taking a continue reading

Working Abroad: The World ‘Could Be’ Your Oyster

Posted under career advice on Friday, March 2, 2012 No Comments

Looking for a challenging experience where you can immerse yourself in another culture? Interested in working overseas? In the current economic turmoil, the mood around the world is mixed. But whether you’re struggling to find a job or you’re ready to take the next step continue reading

How to identify your strengths and weaknesses

Posted under career advice on Monday, February 6, 2012 3 Comments

Whether you’re interviewing for a director position of a top bank or a delivery driver for your local takeaway, the question ‘what are your strengths and weaknesses?’ will always crop up. It’s a simple question, but requires a complex answer. Interviewers are typically looking for continue reading

A great year to be social

Posted under career advice on Thursday, January 19, 2012 No Comments

Finding a job in this economy is difficult enough. Add in to this mix the proliferation of social media sites and the job seekers task seems increasingly daunting. But looking back at the online progression of recruitment in the past year there are plenty of continue reading

What The X Factor can teach us about Job hunting

Posted under career advice on Friday, December 9, 2011 No Comments

The X Factor: it’s an unavoidable and powerful force that sees the public tuning in week after week into watch the fate of 16 acts in search of a recording contract. A closer look at it shows it’s a cleverly-played, amplified recruitment drive with the continue reading

Temp-to-Perm – A great way to find a job

Posted under career advice on Monday, November 14, 2011 No Comments

At webrecruit, we’ve seen a rise in companies opting to hire new employees on a temporary-to-permanent basis. From an employers’ perspective, this puts the company at a lot less risk as it enables them to take on and test out new talent without the associated continue reading

All I Want for Christmas: Our guide to landing a seasonal job

Posted under career advice on Thursday, November 3, 2011 No Comments

The seasonal festivities are just around the corner. And as the busiest retail season of the year, it is a fantastic way to earn some extra cash. Offering a perfect opportunity to add key skills to your CV, seasonal work will come in very handy continue reading

Working from Home: Requirements & Restrictions before Relaxation

Posted under career advice, featured on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 No Comments

Working from Home: Requirements & Restrictions before Relaxation It’s the dream of many to work at home: You have a commute time of seconds instead of tens of minutes; you can work in shorts and a t-shirt instead of office wear, and you don’t have continue reading

How to Love your Job

Posted under career advice on Thursday, August 25, 2011 No Comments

When faced with the prospect of working in just one job, potentially for the rest of your life, it’s easy to start speculating whether your chosen career path was really worth it. In today’s economic climate, we face numerous challenges within the workplace. Long hours, continue reading