Work

Explore part-time work opportunities, balancing employment with studies, and managing finances whilst you're at university.

Bar & Restaurant Work: Ownership of Tips

Many people work within the hospitality industry in jobs such as bartending or waiting-on in restaurants and although their basic hourly wage is often set at...

Contract of Employment as a Student

Any time you undertake paid work for someone else you must make sure that you are protected by a contract of employment. Though an agreement and therefore a...

Creating a CV and Cover Letter

Your CV and cover letter may well be the first things a potential employer ever sees about you so making them sparkle isn’t optional. Think of your CV and...

Dressing for an Interview

Dressing for an interview can be confusing. You'll want to feel put together but comfortable, confident in your clothes but relaxed, clean and neat but not l...

Employment Reviews

Employment reviews are generally an annual hour of terror in which workers everywhere worry that they are not doing enough, not pretending to do enough or no...

Finding a Part-Time Job That will Suit You the Most

Many students take on part time employment while they study, but why a student selects a particular job may depend upon several factors. Payment, time restri...

Finding Flexible Employment

Right or wrong money makes the world go round. We need it to buy food, clothes and shelter, but more frivolously we need it to dress up, go out and have fun!...

Finding Meaningful Work Experience

Though there is no legal definition of “work experience” it is generally accepted that work experience is any voluntary or paid labour that a student per...

Getting Along with Co-Workers

You spend more time with co-workers than you will with family or friends and yet you have absolutely no say in who they are or what they’re like. If you th...

Looking for a Job Overseas

Many UK students are now looking for a job overseas as those at home become scarce, the competition for each becomes intense and wages and benefits become su...

Lunch and Dinner Interviews

The good news is that you’ll only be going on lunch and dinner interviews if a company is trying hard to woo you, but the bad news is that they are the per...

Networking as a Student

Networking usually means business networking, or the practice of making contact with individuals and organisations which could compliment your business activ...

Questionnaire: Do You Have a Professional Image?

Your image is the person you project to the world. It involves the clothing you wear, words you speak, friends you keep and more. Most students don’t worry...

Reference Letters

You worked at a fast food restaurant for four years and never burned it down. You typed up countless letters for a solicitor and never once got yourself sued...

The Basics on Interning and Shadowing as a Student

Interning and shadowing are both forms of work experience that are becoming popular throughout the United Kingdom. As these are relatively new concepts there...

Tips & Advice for Successful Job Interviews

Interviewing for employment is the one experience guaranteed to turn even the most confident candidate into a nervous wreck. The very idea of an interview ca...

Tips & Advice on Finding Your First Graduate Job

Every student worries about landing his or her first full-time job, but the smart ones do more than just sit and fret. If you’ve got employment anxieties r...

Your Working Wardrobe

Once upon a time nothing but a three piece suit would do for the gentleman executive and a strand of pearls paired with a chic chignon for his female assista...