Changing Career
Find guidance on retraining, changing direction, and navigating career transitions, including support for planning your next professional chapter with confidence.
Considerations when Changing Career
When most people considering changing their career, it is often done over quite a period of time. Many issues will need to be taken into account and, of cour...
Getting Training At Work
Getting training at work is something which benefits both the company and the employee. There have been numerous surveys carried out which always seem to ind...
How to Find the Right Career for You
A little change can go a long way – especially when thinking of changing your career. If you feel stale and unappreciated in your current career, it may be...
Interview Techniques To Come Across Well
The first thing you should recognise about interviews and the techniques you can adopt which can often lead to turning an interview into a job offer is that...
Learning Through an Apprenticeship
It’s a well known fact that there are many people who are not particularly good when it comes to ‘academics’ but who, nevertheless, have many practical...
Learning Through Voluntary Work
Voluntary work is not simply about offering your time and effort for free in order to benefit others. Although many people do choose to volunteer to give som...
Overcoming The 'Age Barrier' In Interviews
Age discrimination legislation which was introduced in 2006 has provided far more opportunities for older people to not only work beyond traditional retireme...
Producing A Good CV When Changing Career
One of the most challenging aspects when you’ve decided to change your career is producing an effective CV to enable you to get that first job in the new w...
Starting a Distance Learning Course
Distance learning and correspondence courses aren’t exactly new. For example, the Open University (OU) is one of the most well-known examples of organisati...
Teaching Adults as a Career
Teaching adults can be as much of a career as teaching children, and can be either full- or part-time. People can teach academic subjects that lead to GCSEs,...
What Are NVQs?
NVQ stands for ‘National Vocational Qualification’ which, as its name suggests, is a nationally recognised qualification which can be tailored to a speci...