Getting a Job

Fed up with your job? You can make the leap but take a good look first

Career moves can work as long as you do your homework, say the experts.

Inside Getting a Job

'The young need careers advice more than ever'

Thursday, 4 November 2010

To reduce school-leavers' careers services in a shrinking jobs market would be madness, argues Deirdre Hughes

A competitive field: The improved perception of the oil, gas and mining industry is luring graduates

Thursday, 21 October 2010

Times are changing. In the past, students have smeared themselves in oil and lain down before oil company stands at careers fairs in protest at corporate ethics. Now, many are coming to the big multinationals, more interested in a job. The numbers of graduates attending recruitment fairs for the science and engineering sector are higher than ever this year, according to the University of Oxford. "This is partly the economic situation, partly because the perception of the [oil, gas and mining] industry has changed for the better," says Jonathan Black, director of the careers service at the University of Oxford.

'It opens up so many more opportunities': How languages can lead to a dream job

Thursday, 30 September 2010

From tennis tournaments to the wine industry...

How to get ahead in the global marketplace

Thursday, 30 September 2010

The way to succeed in business is to increase your communication skills, says Kate Hilpern

Language lessons: Online or in person, choose what suits you

Thursday, 30 September 2010

You don't have to sign up for formal classes to boost your language skills, says Virginia Matthews

Working for a charity is better paid than you'd think but the benefits aren't just financial

Thursday, 16 September 2010

Ask anyone to describe their "best moment" at work, and you'll soon tell apart those who work in the charity sector. Kate Thomas will certainly never forget the day she arrived at work to see a woman waiting apprehensively with her son. Without warning, the woman started crying, then raced to the door and hugged a man so hard that they both fell to the ground. "Most of us didn't know what was going on until she said to the boy: 'This is your father'.