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For many teachers, the first few years after qualifying are about getting to grips with learning effective teaching methods, carrying out assessments and keeping a good work life balance but after gaining a few years teaching experience some teachers begin to look at career progression and whether they want to stay as a classroom teacher …
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Working in retail, hospitality or in an office environment is not for everyone and if you really want to work outdoors for the majority of your day then perhaps working in the agriculture or horticulture industry may be something that you should seriously consider. Spending time outdoors has been shown to improve mental health and …
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Many people have found themselves working from home or even furloughed for the majority of the last 12 months. During this time, you may have been able to consider what it is you really want to do and you may decide that you want to set up your own business. Ideally you want to set …
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During training courses in many different industries, students are offered the opportunity to spend some of their course on work experience. This is when they get to work in the workplace alongside employees and experience for themselves exactly what the job entails and is the best way to really find out if that role is …
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Job sharing is becoming more and more popular as people try to get a better work life balance without sacrificing their career prospects. It is certainly worth approaching employers to see whether they are open to such a job arrangement if you are struggling to keep up with working full time but do not want …
Some people may choose to start up their own business and become self-employed or others may find themselves unemployed because of redundancy and so become self-employed out of necessity but whatever the reason it may actually be one of the best decisions of your life. The reason for this is that as a self-employed trader …
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Some people find that even though they have longed to finish work and retire they begin to miss some aspects of their working life such as banter with colleagues, the structure of the day and earning their own money. It is for these reasons that retirees sometimes look for part time work after retirement but …
Many people have found themselves out of work over the past 9 months, due to the Covid pandemic. It may be that the company they worked for has had to close or lay people off, or maybe you have had to leave your job as it was too risky for you to continue. If you …
This year certainly has been like no other. So many businesses are still very much up in the air as to whether they are going to survive this financial year. Many of them are yo-yo-ing between being extremely busy and then having to shut down or run at limited capacity for a while. If you …
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More and more people are finding themselves in a position where they are having to apply for a job. It may have been that you have been in employment for a number of years but following the lockdown period, the company you worked for may have had to close or make cuts. There are a …