Careers Advice & Information To Help You Get On Track!

For careers advice in the UK there is a very professional and dedicated website provided by the government.

The Careers Advice Service website is where career professionals who are interested in your career, advise job seekers to visit for the tremendous resources that you can access free of charge. Without doubt the career advice on this site is very comprehensive and provides links to so much career training information that will help job seekers get their career sorted. You can also sign up for a professional Career Development programme with me, Peter Fisher, the owner of this site.

Where the Careers Advice Service from the government scores over other sites is in their ability to help you with practical support. Whether that takes the form of help with childcare or paying for your career training or learning, or improving your literacy and numbers skills, the career advice site can also help with matters such as these:

Career Advice

• CV Builder
• Finding a job
• Career Values Tool
• Volunteering
• Choosing a career
• Interview skills
• Application forms
• Assess your skills and interests
• Job Profiles

And further careers advice and career training:

• Returning to work
• What do you value in a career?
• Help for students with disabilities
• Finding and paying for childcare
• Working in the UK - a guide for overseas workers
• Dealing with redundancy
• Face to face advice
• Help with reading, writing and numbers
• Paying for your learning
• Choosing the right course
• Help and advice for ex-offenders

The Careers Advice Service can give you free advice on jobs, courses, paying for your training or finding childcare.

What to do if you're facing redundancy

Being made redundant is something we hope will never happen. Unfortunately most of us will experience it at some time in our working lives and the uncertainty it creates can be overwhelming. The Careers Advice Service can help you to overcome the difficulties by offering career advice in these areas:

• What to do if you're facing redundancy
• I'm feeling down about being made redundant
• I feel upset at losing my job
• What do I need to think about?
• What additional benefits might my employers offer me?
• How can I find out what I'm entitled to?
• What am I going to do next?
• I'd like to improve my skills
• I need to update my CV
• How can I find out what jobs are out there?

If you are in the professions, I recommend that you read the dedicated page for Career Success After Redundancy which is specifically for you.

What Can You Do About It?

Keep yourself motivated and learning with a fresh professional challenge. Keep on the course that you have already set for yourself.

If you do poorly in an interview and do not receive an offer, it could be because of one or more of these common interview faults:

• Insufficient ability to describe your career direction;
• Failure to project your qualifications for the position;
• Apparent absence of personal initiative;
• Need for greater self-confidence;
• Inappropriate personal appearance or dress;
• Lack of knowledge of the company or firm;
• Inability to express yourself clearly;
• Failure to ask relevant questions

It is your responsibility to ensure the interviewer gets the information needed to make an employment decision in your favour. At the end of the interview you have the opportunity to ask questions covering new information and clarifying previous points such as: “How long is the training program?” or “Is this a new position?”

Finding Opportunities

Look at the internet every other day and join as many "jobs by email" lists as possible. Go for any job remotely connected to what you want to do, even if they ask for something you haven't got; you can find out about skills in demand and if you get an interview then you can demonstrate your abilities to learn. The goal of the interview is to get to know you so that you can be evaluated for a job you will be able to thrive in and where you can do your best.

After all, for a successful company to continue to succeed, you must share a sense of purpose and motivation. This is because an employee's ability to make a good first impression is a definite asset to the individual and the firm/company he or she represents.

How To Avoid Disappointment

You can easily avoid the disappointment and frustration of seeing your dream job slip through your fingers by getting the best job search and career change information you can.

Because it only takes one slip-up when the competition for new jobs is so fierce, you owe it to yourself to learn the job winning techniques that are proven to work, just as they have for many people before you.

Self-marketing, or 'selling' yourself; writing cover letters and great resumes / CVs are all skills that most people could do better with the right information.

When it comes to interview skills, too many people are prepared to 'fly by the seat of their pants'. Don't let yourself down and leave it to chance like that, get the latest and most complete job search information and you'll feel the difference when you approach each step of your career change more confidently - knowing you have what it takes!

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