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Today is Equal Pay Day, where the Fawcett Society will renew their call to the government to bridge the gender pay gap. The gap that currently exist between male and female full-time staff is in the region of 17%, which is equivalent to a woman receiving her last pay cheque of the year in October, [...]

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With the recession having slowed the jobs market down considerably it’s becoming more common for professionals to accept stop-gap jobs. If this is the case for you it’s important that try to stay ahead of the curve in readiness for when the recruiters start calling again. One thing you can do is to accept voluntary [...]

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In Part 1 of this blog post I started talking about how LinkedIn can be used to keep your cv up to date but that’s not all that it’s good for. Creating a LinkedIn account is the first step towards managing your online brand. Once your cv is up there follow the steps to completing [...]

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For me the recession has made me realise that I’d taken my eye off the ball when it comes to my career. I was made redundant during the summer and in all honesty I never thought I would be, ever. At first when I was made redundant I was extremely confident that I would walk [...]

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The latest focus of the Westminster expense scandal appears to be the employment of family members by MPS. It is widely believed that when Sir Christopher Kelly announces his expenses reform package next month that MPs employing family members to provide back office services will be banned. It seems that this has been widely practised [...]

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Many people spend their lives waiting for that big idea that’s going to change the world and sky rocket them to becoming millionaires. The truth of the matter is that most successful entrepreneurs never knew what it was that was going to make them successful, they just knew that was what they wanted. Good businesses [...]

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Children’s Secretary Ed Balls has announced plans today, to give careers advice to children as young as seven. Under the new plans primary schools will be expected to offer careers advice to children aged 7-11, with the ultimate aim being that children receive this advice up to the age of 18.
The reason quoted for this [...]

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Are we still in recession? Are we out of recession, after 15 months? The truth is that no one seems to know. The government are telling us one thing and certain specialist organisations are saying that we have at least another 12 months in front of us. No matter what the truth is, the fact [...]

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When using social networking sites most people treat it as their own little space on the web, where they’re free to voice their opinions and vent their emotions. This is true but you do need to be aware of who or what your opinions and emotions are aimed at.
There have been several well publicised cases [...]

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Researchers from the National Centre for Social Research, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions, sent out thousands of fake CVs to employers all over the country in an attempt to uncover discrimination occurring due to someone’s name. Three fake names were used, Nazia Mahmood, Mariam Namagembe and Alison Taylor, all the CVs contained [...]

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