Now that’s out of the way, what’s in store for 2010?

Let’s start 2010 with a slightly belated (we’re blaming the mysterious but brilliant snowman that appeared in our car park) but nevertheless heartfelt thanks to everyone we worked with in 2009.  Like the vast majority of our clients and candidates, the past 12 months were tricky for us.  In fact, for a while back there [...]

Tech job vacancies rise again in November

More increases in the number of IT/tech vacancies being advertised in November.

How to make Facebook ads work for you

A simple tip to help you use Facebook’s targeted advertising system work for you in your jobsearch.

Unemployment figures – Realism up, Optimism down

After the optimism of yesterday’s post about the state of the employment market, here’s a bout of realism from the latest unemployment stats.

Can’t find a job? Should you sue, or is there anything else you can do?

What do if you’ve left University with an awesome degree but subsequently failed to land that dream job.

Twips and Twobs: Why and how to use Twitter to find a new job

Twitter, twobbing and twips: or in other words it’s how to use Twitter to find a job.

Class of 2009: Graduate Job-hunting 101

We’ve been reading a lot about Graduates recently. And with good reason too, for some sources are saying that this year is the worst year to be a graduate looking for a job in absolutely ages.
Why? Well, because whilst the number of positions on graduate training schemes has been cut by as much [...]

How to use LinkedIn to find a new job

We’ve been meaning to write on the subject of LinkedIn for ages. In fact, if we go back through our mixed-bag of “draft” articles for the site, we can find at least six instances of articles we started, and then gave up on. It’s certainly something missing from our recent writings.
Help is at [...]

Follow me, follow you, follow us on Twitter

Regular readers will know full well that we’re not known for jumping on bandwagons (we prefer to call it “early adoption”), but bear with us for a moment whilst we talk about Twitter – the latest “must-do” in on-line living. Twitter itself has developed a genuine fame over the past month or so – [...]

Getting a job working from home

It’s been a slow couple of weeks in terms of juicy news – there’s not been much of note in the Idealpeople blog inbox (except something about banks and credit crunches and doom and stuff) and besides, we’ve been particularly busy putting the final, finishing touches to the Idealpeople corporate website – why not pop [...]