Ten years ago iPlayer, iTunes and YouTube didn’t exist. Hard to believe isn’t it?  And the same digital revolution that hit the entertainment industry is having a big impact on job hunting and recruitment. Online job boards, recruiters on Twitter and professional social networking sites are just some of the changes that have taken place.  Overwhelming? [...]

The Jobsearch Support Service for Newly Unemployed Professionals, is targeted principally at professional or executive jobseekers in receipt of Job Seekers Allowance (JSA) who have become unemployed after a period of long term employment. This support service is funded by DWP.  Eligible customers will have little or no experience of current job search channels but will [...]

Last weeks episode of the Apprentice showed the last 5 in the gruelling CV and interview round. What are the lessons to be learned? Lesson One from Yasmina “The Entrepreneur” Get you numbers straight Employers love to see numbers on a CV; it shows quantitative evidence of your achievements. So include figures and percentages such as, how much [...]

1. Internship Opportunity - Seventeen Events Seventeen Events is a sustainable event management agency based at Container City in east London. We manage a variety of events each year including the Observer Ethical Awards. We are compliant to BS8901, the British Standard for sustainable event management, and we have a clever online system called eventberry (www.eventberry.com) [...]

Here are some of the people who have used the Figuring Out Work Experience service: “The Coaching helped me to refine my areas of interest, and Figuring Out then connected me to four companies to gain different experience. These were fantastic opportunities, which included working with Polecat, co-owned by the former Head of Innovation at Microsoft [...]

One of the main issues with choosing a new career or job is not really knowing what it’s REALLY like on a day-to-day basis. It may sound great from the outside but how do you know that it isn’t completely different on the inside? If you are looking to start a new career, Figuring Out can [...]