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Top 10 Tips to find work if you are disabled

Top 10 Tips to find work if you are disabled

As we know, it’s twice as hard to find paid, sustainable work if you are disabled than if you are non-disabled. Here are my top tips for finding work: 1. Identify your strengths If you are trying to sell a car, you need to know the good points (features and benefits)...

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Careers Support for Disabled Candidates

Careers Support for Disabled Candidates

There are many places that offer career support. But Evenbreak was being told that disabled candidates weren’t receiving the careers support they needed - it wasn’t suitable or accessible for them. Either it wasn’t relevant to disabled candidates, and was perhaps...

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Let’s help rural jobseekers get to work

Let’s help rural jobseekers get to work

The labour market is rapidly changing once again, with vacancies surging, as the latest Keep Britain Working job index report reveals. But for people without a car and living in a rural or poorly-connected urban area, labour market choices are drastically restricted...

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Job vacancies back to pre-pandemic levels

Job vacancies back to pre-pandemic levels

Job postings were back to expected pre-pandemic levels for the month of May 2021. The actual job vacancies posted broke the 200,000 mark for the first time since January 2020 and in fact were 6% up on that month. Compared to the same month in 2019, May 2021 is only...

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Hospitality roles on the rise

Hospitality roles on the rise

In signs of the economy opening up, Hospitality roles are at their highest levels since January 2020 (60% up on last month and 86% up on April 2020) and Leisure roles maintain the strong performance of last month (and 63% up on the same month last year). This is...

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Jobs growth in struggling sectors

Jobs growth in struggling sectors

Jobs posted are ahead of the same time last year, according to the latest Keep Britain Working job index report. Job vacancies for March 2021 are 17% up on the same month last year. The country went into the first lockdown on the 23rd March 2020 so it is expected that...

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Job market back to pre-pandemic levels

Job market back to pre-pandemic levels

Keep Britain Working has spoken for some time about a Spring recovery in the job market and it seems as though those green shoots of optimism have grown. According to the latest Keep Britain Working job index report, job vacancies for February 2021 are only 1% down on...

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Are hobbies the key to your next job?

Are hobbies the key to your next job?

During the past year we may have found ourselves picking up a new hobby or two. Of course, there’s the obvious surge in sourdough baking but there were other areas Brits found themselves dabbling with. Retail reported a boom in gardening equipment as we spent more...

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Recruitment market adapting to lockdown

Recruitment market adapting to lockdown

The recruitment market is showing resilience in the face of a predominantly remote working landscape. The latest Keep Britain Working Job Index Report shows that January saw the most number of jobs posted in a month since February last year. This is in line with the...

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2021: The year to consider contracting

2021: The year to consider contracting

I’ve been working in the recruitment industry for 23 years and I don’t think any 12-month period has ever inflicted so much change on the ways we live and work as 2020 has.  There have been three main factors. The first and most obvious is the pandemic. This would’ve...

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Mindfulness & The Interview Process

Mindfulness & The Interview Process

Walking into an interview can feel daunting and a range of emotions will come to the forefront of your mind. Panic can start to set in and your confidence and self-belief tested. Being mindful is a process that allows us to be aware of the present moment, to allow...

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Job market momentum fuels optimism for 2021

Job market momentum fuels optimism for 2021

The impact of a second UK Lockdown has failed to damage the UK jobs market’s recovery, according to the latest Keep Britain Working Job Index. The early shoots of a recovery in the jobs market has been maintained through November as job listings – a key indicator of a...

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