Careers Blog

When teenagers continue with further education and realise that those pens, pencils and pints cost money – they start looking for a job. A few hours at the weekend, how hard can that be to obtain? A lot harder than first imagined actually. 20% of employed young people work in the retail sector, but that figure may potentially decrease as online shopping is causing more high-street tension, forcing shops to compete against each other on price and cut back on costs. Read Article »

It’s Friday, it’s the end of the month and we’ve been paid. Many of us will be ordering a take away tonight. I’m one for a pay day curry, but the last time I went to place my order my favourite curry house was closed. I’d been told the month before the head chef was away, but now it had closed for good. I’m picky. I don’t like spice but I love flavour – so I’ll always have a chicken korma with boiled rice. Read Article »

There’s no denying that cold calling works for reaching your target market. Emphasis on reaching, not selling to. Online marketing has taken over the way we showcase our products and services and very few of us remember what a telephone (with a cable) is. Read Article »

A common recruitment manager complaint is too many inappropriate applicants. Not in the sense that they’re sending you inappropriate content, but possessing irrelevant skills sets. This then increased the workload for recruitment sieves who are responsible for sifting through the abundance of applications to find candidates worth contacting. Thanks basket apply button… Read Article »

We all doodle. I’m one for turning hole-punched pages into flowers. Apparently our doodles are an absentminded indication to how we’re feeling. In my case, I feel happy; I have relationship harmony and love, how sweet. But strangely enough, it’s true. Nothing is telling me to draw flowers, yet I would consider my relationship to be ‘harmonious’ and I am in love. Read Article »

When you think of ‘sales’, what often springs to mind is an image of a pushy man in a suit trying to flog you something you don’t need or want. You may think that working in sales isn’t the most glamorous job or does it have a positive reputation, yet 1 in 10 Brits work in sales.

Three-million people in the UK spend their days cold calling, canvassing, upselling or stopping people on the street with the intention of convincing them to buy. They have to persuade them to consider an alternative to their current preferences of convince them they require a new product in their lives. It’s not easy, but not every sales person is a sleazy trickster trying to grab your money. They aim to get your attention and influence your decisions. So in a way, aren’t we all sales people? Read Article »