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Cut these words from your CV immediately Choosing the right tone in your resume can be a challenge. But by carefully selecting the right words, you can connect with employers and make them feel confident you understand their business and are the ideal person for the job. ​​​​​​Words to avoid using in your CV Simon […]

5 Top Skills You Need To Bag Your First Graduate Job Graduating from university is one of the most rewarding things you can do in your life but it can also be one of the most stressful. It’s one thing handing in your dissertation and throwing that cap in the air, but it’s quite another […]

How to Tailor Your CV to Different Jobs It is common thinking amongst candidates that it is acceptable to use the same CV for multiple positions. However, this isn’t true. Employers and recruiters expect you to be tailoring your CV to different jobs instead of adopting a mass blanket approach for all jobs. Here are […]

40 Questions To Ask A Mentor Have conversations with your mentor gotten repetitive? Don’t write off the relationship too quickly, even if it seems like it may have run its course. Below are four types of questions to ask your mentor, along with 10 related examples for each type. Shutterstock Imagine you approached someone you […]

What Recruiters Look for When Hiring Despite the fact that there are hundreds of search firms around that you can choose to work with, the most sought-after recruiters do not typically deal with and hire just any applicant they come across. Here’s why. According to MENA Recruitment Consultants, professional recruiters follow a stringent screening process to […]

4 steps to shorten a lengthy CV If you are missing out on job interviews due to a lengthy CV, then try some of these tactics to reduce its size without losing vital information. As a candidate, you are often told to keep your CV to around the two-page mark to keep recruiters interested, but […]

3 Tough Decisions You’ll Have To Make When Considering A Career Change Changing careers is not easy. If it was, all the people out there who don’t enjoy their jobs would just make a move. My own career pivots have always seemed to involve sleepless nights, identity crises, and most of all, tough decisions. In […]

Time is precious use it wisely, are you doing a job you love? If not why not? Anyone can change YOU can change. We spend most of our lives working if you don’t do a job you enjoy, you are spending most of your life waiting for Fridays and retirement.  Make sure you are enjoying […]

What Not to Put in a CV: 10 Recruiter Pet Peeves Recruiters read a lot of CVs and they know how to assess whether someone looks good for a role or not relatively quickly. They are essentially CV experts and can shed some light on what not to put in a CV. CV-Library have surveyed over […]

REVEALED: What’s the Average Graduate Salary in the UK for 2018?   Graduate recruitment experts, Bridgewater Graduates, share their insights into what graduates can expect to be earning in 2018. After years of lectures, seminars, essays and exams, graduates want to see their careers take off. Those crazy student loans better be worth it and once university if […]