Work and Employment, Jobs and Recruitment
Many people would love to return to studies as an adult as often when you get older you have more of an idea of what careers you may want to do. Often the man reason people are not able to return to studies is commitments and often these are linked to financial issues. It may …
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If you are currently working in an IT support role then you may want to look at progressing to IT manager in the near future. You will probably already have the technical background so you will mostly likely need to learn about the management side. This may include how to manage a team, meeting with …
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As an am employer you may find it hard to get the balance between being a boss and being friendly. Just because you are an employer does not mean you always have to be firm, but it does mean you need to consider the way in which you communicate with your employees and maintain a …
Many people feel that they are in jobs and not getting paid the correct wage for the work they do. All too often, people leave a job vacancy over money without finding out if they could have got a pay rise in their current position. Some people find asking for a pay rise hard, they …
When someone has been working in a particular industry for a number of years, they often pick up many skills and techniques that if shared, could help many other people. One way to share this experience and skills is to become a trainer and offer training courses for other people wishing to get in to …
Whilst being employed, you may be given the opportunity to do some extra on the job training. This can help you learn how to improve in your current role, teach you new skills to take on additional responsibilities or help you manage other members of staff. Often employees will be given the opportunity to go …
Managing to fit in your home life around a job can be tricky and many people fall in to the trap or working all the time without having any time to spend with loved ones. When this happens, relationships can often start to breakdown and although a person may be able to make a decent …
If you own your own business then you will need to think carefully about your marketing. It is easy to let marketing get forgotten about especially if you have a lot of work coming in, but not doing any marketing could leave you high and dry with no work. Marketing doesn’t have to cost the …
If you are out of work for a long period of time you may find it difficult to find an employer who is willing to take you on. Sometimes people have to be unemployed for a period of time, this may be due to illness, raising a family, looking after a loved one or other …
If you are self-employed, then no one will tell you (apart from maybe an accountant) that you need to put your prices up. If you think about it, most things increase in price year upon year with inflation so there is no reason why your business shouldn’t be able to do the same. If your …
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