Using social media to enhance your resume template and to ensure it is optimised for online use is essential. But social media is also a great tool for networking and the beauty of it is you do not have to leave your computer!

If you have gone through a telephone interview and successfully completed a one to one interview you should be feeling good! But what some employers introduce (sometimes unexpectedly) at the final stage of interviewing is a workshop day – where multiple candidates are invited to take part in a day of interviews.

There are a variety of job roles you can work in and most will involve working from an office. But occasionally you may have the opportunity to work from home. Although working from home can be very beneficial there are a few things you should consider before accepting a job.    

We have all heard the expression ‘it’s not over until it’s over’ and this certainly applies to job interviews. Many candidates make the mistake of ‘relaxing’ too soon after their interview and this can leave an interviewer with the wrong impression.

Telephone interviews can be a strange process. You are speaking to someone you have never met before and you need to make a good first impression which is sometimes really difficult over the phone (this is true for email interviews too). That’s why a lot of candidates feel they fail at the telephone interview stage and fear they will not be invited to the face to face interview.

Everybody, at some point, will have a gap in their resume. It could be for a few months or it could be for a few years. The important thing is that you explain these gaps to an employer to give yourself a better chance of securing a job.

Depending on your career path you may be wondering whether to apply for full time jobs or whether to look into freelance opportunities. There are positives and negatives to both roles.