Career World – Jobs, Boards & Job Seeking Advice

Not everybody benefits from taking up a place at university.  This is becoming obvious now after a couple of generations of schools almost forcing every child to feel they’ll lose out if they don’t go.  After years of over supply to the jobs market, it’s very difficult for a prospect…

Knowing your way around the jobs and recruitment industry can be a worry for some younger folk.  They are coached throughout school life to get through exams – everything for the last few years has been geared to the school achieving the best possible Ofsted inspection results and this has…

With so many young folk being able and desperately wanting to travel around the world as a final step between the end of university and when they need to settle down to work, there must be a thought comes in to their minds that a legal career in the world…

There are so many career options open to young folk these days.  It’s astonishing how things have changed in 40 or so years.  When I was taking my O levels, I wasn’t expected to go on to take A levels or go on to university.  The only students to do…

There’s a young lass who’s been helping out at the gym down the road.  She doesn’t look very old and it turns out she’s the daughter of a client and the gym was using her to cover when the 2 owners were too busy elsewhere.  This set alarm bells as…

There have been some grumblings going on at my local gym.  I’m no surprised because the owners do seem a bit lax in their treatment of the premises, their livlihood and more worrying, how they treat their younger staff members.  I like to go down there in the afternoons after…

I have been a member of a small gym ear my home for some weeks now.  Nothing flash and certainly not smart enough to attract the really serious body building type.  Most of the time one of the two owners is in situ and gives personal training advice when asked. …

When I was at school there were not many options for the youngster who was just paddling along.  The brightest pupils were encouraged towards passing the 11+, the rest of us did our best!  It didn’t worry me at the time.  I was already lined up for a job after…

I have been friends with a chum for quit a few years now and although we don’t catch up with each other very often, maybe three or four times a year, we cover much ground when we do.  Lots of chat about what our families have been up to since…