Whilst debate amongst academics and employability professionals has been heated and relatively well publicised, very little of it is likely to be seen by young people. It is this that makes the Vice Special Series, [...]
Graduate recruitment rarely stands still but the pace of change and the increase in innovation in this area in 2016 has been extraordinary. Significant shifts in employer strategies have arguably driven many of these changes [...]
There has never been a more exciting time to work in careers and employability but few careers practitioners are up to date on emerging trends and the innovations in technology impacting early careers. Join Career [...]
In Autumn/Winter 2015, Career Design conducted its first employability research initiative to track the skills employers seek when recruiting graduates. As an independent employability consultancy we have no agenda – the sole purpose of the [...]
We are coming to the end of a major employability skills assessment for a leading UK University and this involved interviewing graduate employers across the South East. Employers within banking, digital media, recruitment and tech [...]
The UK skills gap has been well covered by academic and mass media. Irrespective of viewpoint on whose fault this is, the one common belief appears to be that UK businesses feel let down by [...]
Every adult will have to experience three major life events at some point or another. They'll have to move home, find a partner, and get a job. Unfortunately, the first two life events mentioned in the [...]
A retreat is probably something you associate with spirituality or rejuvenation. The word alone conjures up images of escape and reflection. In a sense, although our career change retreats are nothing to do with spirituality [...]
Changing career is a big deal. It's likely to be something you've thought about when lying awake at night. It's also likely to be something you've fantasised about when dealing with your overzealous boss or [...]
Recently, journalists asked the world's oldest woman what her feelings on life were. She responded, "it felt rather short". Time goes faster than any of us expect it to, that's close to being a universal [...]
