So you want to be a nurse? Here are the skills you’ll need!

There’s no regular formula to get a fantastic nurse, but there are traits and specific abilities that will assist you flourish in the positioning. Find out about several useful capabilities many nurses share. Do these seem like you? 1. Communication About the frontline of treatment, you’re like a nurse. You’ll…

Family Appreciates True Professionalism

As a family we have recently come into contact with a whole gammit of professionals for whom we collectively have the greatest respect.  We now have even more, for the last remaining grandparent passed away just before the festive break.   It was all so sudden – after years of quietly…

Kindly Carers Installed On Idyllic Isle

I have a very dear friend who lives on an island in the Med – a lovely sunny place.  They don’t have old peoples’ homes, or care homes as we now call them.  Until relatively recently it was down to the family to look after the older folk – the…

Those Born To Serve With A Smile

The way we look at jobs and careers in this country is completely different to many others.  I’m thinking here of many south asian nations where any job is considered a benefit and something to be taken very seriously.  Many carers and service providers are from Sri Lanka, Phillippines etc….

Choice Of School Such A Big Question

The world of work and careers is moving on very rapidly.  Gone are the days of just getting through senior school with a handful of GCSEs on a wing and a prayer.  Today all youngsters enter upper school and are encouraged from the off to choose their options so they…

Legal Careers For Women Still Needs Improvement

The school exam results are coming out now and there has been some disquiet that for the fourth year running the success rate in the top grades of Scottish highers has dropped in number .  There are still a huge number of the very best grades but the tide is…

Finding That Plum Position Via Work Experience

This is the time of the school year for students to engage in work experience.  The period after the gcse ‘o’ levels finish, leading up to the end of term.  Students are placed through the school on one or two weeks of work experience with a local company.  If it…

True Grit, Imagination & Planning For Top Career

I’m absolutely amazed at the number of bright young folk who happily working in restaurants and bars when I go travelling – most of them are students or post graduants, who having completed their university degree courses, are decidiing how best to use that knowledge and qualification.  But never quite…

Engaging The Right Candidate Takes Know How

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…

Keeping A Step Ahead With Career Choices

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…