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10 Ways to Overcome Your Career Change Fears
By Nisa Chitakasem, Founder of Position Ignition. Career change is one of the biggest life transitions there is, so it’s little wonder that many of us approach the process with fear and trepidation....
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Message from DWP: Get your pension the easy way – from your employer!
As the population grows older most of us can look forward to around 20 years in retirement. This is good news. A comfortable retirement should be a reward for years spent at work. But what if we...
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Know Your Rights in an Unfair Dismissal
In economic times such as these, employers, facing lower profits or even losses, often have to make difficult decisions regarding staff. Unfortunately, some employers attempt to circumvent employment...
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The Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs of Working from Home
All things in life come with their share of good and bad. This familiar aphorism is one which we all accept in theory, but rarely remember in practice. Case in point, the idea of working from home...
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10 Ways to Nurture Your Current Networks
By Nisa Chitakasem, Founder of Position Ignition. As important as it is to get out there and meet new people, it’s equally important that you don’t neglect your current contacts. You should keep in...
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How to protect your rights as an unpaid intern
An unpaid internship is an excellent opportunity to gain relevant experience for your CV, make connections in the industry, and to discover whether a particular career is for you. But with a...
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How to deal with tricky issues for your career
Guest post by Simon North, Founder of Position Ignition and creator of the Career Ignition Club. There are some things in life that can potentially be career ending, such as a life threatening illness,...
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What the Colour You Wear Says about You in Your Job Search
With the daunting prospect of interview hanging over us, we spend hours practicing our firm handshakes, preparing our faultless answers and learning facts about our potential new company. We all do...
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A Legal Overview of Maternity and Paternity Rights
Guest article by Dominic Higgins Having a baby inevitably brings huge demands on your time. Fortunately, the law gives parents employment rights so you can combine the responsibilities of parenthood...
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15 Ways to Be a Great Manager
Guest post by Simon North, Founder of Position Ignition We would all like to think that we are great managers, just like we all think that we are great drivers. The difference between thinking we’re a...
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How to make a career change
A career change is one of the single biggest life transitions we can go through and therefore should not be taken lightly. Nor should we be overwhelmed by the thought of the process, as daunting as it...
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5 tips for an efficient online application
Are you sending tons of CVs to employers, but you don’t even get an answer? Guest author and recruiter Jorg Stegemann explains here why this may be. Recruiters, both in HR departments or recruitment...
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Call Centre Operators Are Picking Up
Call centre operators have added 6,187 jobs across Great Britain in the last three years, a growth of six per cent since 2010. There are 102,310 call centre operators in Great Britain, most of them...
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Automatic pension enrolment – everything you need to know
Heard of automatic enrolment? Last October the government introduced a new law to help people save for their retirement. Employers have to enrol eligible workers into a workplace pension scheme if...
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The economy and the North-South divide
Differences between the North and South have always been a topic of debate. This 2012 article from the Economist cites lower employment rates and average incomes. Some have even gone so far as to say...
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CareerBuilder Releases Striking Differences in Typical Workdays Around the World
LONDON, 17 October 2013 – A new global study from CareerBuilder shows that a typical day in the office is not so typical across the globe: When you look at the average workday in the 10 largest...
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Ten ways to love Mondays
Nisa Chitakasem, founder of Position Ignition For as long as anyone can remember, Mondays have been getting a bad rep simply for being the beginning of the working week. There are whole songs about how...
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11 ways to help your job search in 5 minutes
Susan Ricker, CareerBuilder writer You might have heard the saying, “Looking for a job is a full-time job.” Although a job search needs a lot of attention and focus, it doesn’t need to take up your...
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Payslips – and how to interpret them
Payslips – and how to interpret them As another year starts, it makes sense to take a look at one of the most important papers we receive on a regular basis – our payslip. Most of us tend to only look...
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The job life cycle – which phase are you in?
Everything has its life cycle, including your current job. Jorg Stegemann, Managing Director of Kennedy Executive Search & Outplacement, explains in which phases your job can be cut down. This will...
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