The Ten Step Job Hunter Plan

After working with many long term unemployed job hunters, I have found that several common themes stop job hunters securing employment. This ten step plan will help overcome these obstacles and clear the path to your new career. Long term job hunters after securing work often report that other areas in their lives improve including confidence, family relationships, stress levels, self esteem and their quality of life.    A career coach can help you move forward with your life, your career and your... 

Make Money From Home with your Website

Unemployed and looking for a new alternative then going back to working for others? The internet has opened many doors for job searchers, offering you the opportunity to work for yourself from home with only a computer and internet connection. If you could sell products and services from home without having to touch or buy any physical products or lay out any money, making thousands of pounds a month, would you? The internet has increased the amount of millionaires; many of these have been teenagers... 

Franchising – is it worth it?

The franchising industry is growing and currently there are over a quarter of a million franchising businesses in the UK. Around 3 new franchises open up each day and the UK has seen a year on year growth in franchises over the past 10 years.   Franchising covers most business sectors from the Cleaning Industry to the Retail sector. In many cases the franchise you buy, can be a recognised brand name and like all businesses you are never guaranteed success or profits – you will need to complete... 

5 Successful Ways to Create Business Ideas

This article will help you understand how other successful business people came up with successful and profitable business ideas. To be successful you need to be keen, passionate and able to learn from your mistakes, Richard Branson once said that failing his first business is what made him successful. Business Ideas Business ideas are all around you, many inventors and business people originally came up with a product, service or idea due to their own need and then later turn this idea into a profitable... 

Achieve Your Career Goal

This technique will help you achieve your goal, by breaking down your goal into realistic chunks. Also, by looking at the outcome of your goal and the resources you can access you will start to think about a future time when the outcome has been achieved and how this will make you feel and the changes this goal will bring.     This is a great motivational tool used by many coaches. We have written this technique as a set of questions, you can print of the questions and answer them one by one.... 

What Happened To All The Career Advisor Jobs?

As you will already be aware with the cut in public spending, large contract holders such as Connexions (the largest career advisor recruiter in the UK) have slowed down their recruitment policy.  New All-Age Career Service                                                                                    This has lead to high competition for career advisor jobs in both public and the private sector. With schools,... 

Internet Marketing – How to Get Customers to Your website

Do you have a website you need to promote; are you looking for more hits and more customers? To have a successful business you need to know how to market your website and to gain returning customers with a monetised website. The more hits you get to your website, the more customers you will receive and the more money you will make.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ... 

Volunteering – The Best Job Searching Tool

We all know Volunteering is an advantage for anyone looking for a new job or career. From my own personal experience I enjoy volunteering as it gives you sense of satisfaction, accomplishment and for me a chance to give something back. You can use volunteering to gain new experience and in some cases new qualifications, many professionals I have met have gained their career by starting as a volunteer. CV   When recording volunteering on your CV, don’t, like many other job hunters, undersell your... 

Enterprising Skills

In the recent government budget, we were told that small business will help get the UK out of the recession. The chancellor announced that there will a £45 billion increase in lending to small and medium size businesses, which could lead to 57,000 new jobs. This is a great time for entrepreneurs with creative ideas and enterprising skills to enter their sector as self employed business person.   What are Enterprising Skills? To be able to create and operate your own enterprise you will need the...