Recruitment Advice

We all know that looking for a job can feel like a full time job itself. The hours you have to put in these days in order to find something suitable to apply for in the first place is bad enough, even when you don’t consider the lengthy recruitment processes you have to go through after filling in your application in some industries.

Since you’re working yourself so hard in order to get a foothold in the job market, it makes sense to give yourself a break now and again. You could be in danger of burning out by spending all the live long day searching and searching the job sites and sending out speculative applications.

One fantastic way of taking a break is to play a bit of online bingo. Online bingo offers a welcome distraction from the dearth of career opportunities out there and it also gives you the chance to win a handy bit of extra cash when you’re out of work.

Sun Bingo is among the most popular bingo sites on the web and it offers great prizes and jackpots for its players. There are even free games you can get involved in to get used to the game.

This summer the UK saw a small increase in jobs created due to some company’s bouncing back from the recession. This rise made up for the job losses where the staff levels shrank by near 22,000.

The unemployment among young women is at its highest level however….this is the worst level in 20 years. These are worrying figures but if statistics in the news are something to focus on then maybe there is some small bit of hope to cling onto that there will be more jobs out there for those of who are willing to get out there and work.

With the number of unemployed reaching 2.1 million it seems that for many, finding a job is proving difficult. Although a large proportion of industries are struggling because of the recession, it hasn’t massively affected each and every one of them. There are still jobs available, maybe not in the industry you have previously worked in but a change may have to be the next move. This could just be temporary or part time job just to make sure that you can pay the bills, you may even end up enjoying it and wanting to take it up full time!

Make sure that you have a look at the popular employment websites such as Monster and Total Jobs, they have hundreds of job opportunities available in a number of different industries, from jobs for writers to jobs for financial controllers and customer service advisers.

If you are unemployed then try not to worry too much, you just need to make sure that you have a well written CV, submitted on a wide variety of job boards. Make sure that you keep your eyes peeled for jobs being advertised in papers and ask friends and families to let you know if any vacancies come up in their work place.

Tesco one of the UK’s largest supermarket retailers have announced today that they have planned to reserve some of the 11,000 jobs they will recruit for this year for the long term unemployed.

They are going to work alongside the Job Centre and Local Employee Partnership (LEP’s) to help achieve this. Tesco should see success in using this methods as they have already taken on 3,000 long-term unemployed people through these schemes before. They have not confirmed the number roles of roles that will be recruited through this scheme or when they will be recruited.

The supermarket chain is also set to double the number of apprentices it takes on next year to 1,600 places.