Category: Careers advice
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Intimidated by long person specifications? Don’t be ! Tips to make it easier
So you see a vacancy listed and it sounds ideal – you open up the person specification and see the 3 pages of requirements and give up. Sound familiar? It’s quite common in the public sector (and some others) for job specifications to be very long. Do not be put off, it’s not that hard to break…
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I can’t do that job, can I? Time to locate your skills!
So you found a job advertised and it looks great, but then you looked at the job description and convinced yourself you would never be shortlisted because you don’t have the skills. STOP, BREATHE and start again. Every job has a list of requirements, some will be technical or knowledge based but many jobs require…
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Careers advice playlist
Along with Liverpool FC my biggest passion in life is music. When I was growing up music was always on in the house and I remember my dad use to tell me how song lyrics related to what I was going through. Whilst on the bus this morning flicking though my I Pod I started…
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Relationships – are they a skill?
Guest Blogger Post Sue Colbeck MCIPS Head of Procurement and Supplies Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust/ Liverpool Clinical Laboratories I have been in employment now for over 20 years and have held numerous different positions in numerous different organisations ranging from Administration, Customer Service, Junior Management, to my current role as Head of Procurement. …
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Are you putting off dealing with procrastination?
I’d meant to write this post days ago but now the week is almost over and I am wondering, ‘Where did all that time go?’ Procrastination. A big word for what is simply putting off until tomorrow what can – or should – be done today. In fact, the literal translation of the classical Latin…
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What if I want to change or leave my degree?
You start a course and for whatever reason you realise it’s not for you. What do you do next? Discontinuing or changing course is not a failure. Identifying that something needs to change and taking action to make that happen shows you have the resilience to cope when things go wrong, a skill employers look…
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Valentines special: How to find your perfect (job) partner
Whether you are looking for a job for life or a more short term engagement, it’s important to choose carefully and plan your approach. Sometimes you can tell at a glance that a job is not for you, wrong hours, wrong location, or you just don’t have the skills. However, some jobs grow on you. The…
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Job search round 2, all to play for!
So it’s semester 2, you’ve just done exams and all you have to look forward to is snow, sleet, Easter and then more exams. Oh and you really need a job for summer / after you graduate. Can it get more depressing? Did you apply in semester 1 and got nowhere? All is not lost.…
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