Top companies hiring July 2019

Top companies hiring July 2019 by Michael Cheary Summer, summer, summertime (and other, more contemporary references)…Ok, so it might seem like finding a new job is the last thing you should be thinking about this summer. But with some of the UK’s biggest brands searching for staff right now, and half of the UK firmly out-of-office, July could be the perfect time to kick-off your career search. In fact, 10,000 new roles are added to reed.co.uk every single day.Let’s face it, what else are you going to do when Love Island finishes?To give you an idea of some of the roles that are out there, here are five of the best companies you could find work with this July:Clarks They say to truly understand a person, you need to walk a mile in their shoes.We don’t know if that’s true. But what we do know is, if they bought their shoes from Clarks, they would at least be comfortable and odour-resistant.The company, which started life way back in 1825, has built up a reputation for delivering distinctively fash ionable and affordable shoes on high streets right across the UK.Fun fact: they also invented the Desert Boot, which was based on the unlined suede shoes produced in the bazaars of Cairo and worn by British officers in the Second World War. Which, at the very least, will give you a decent anecdote the next time you need something to pair with chinos.They’re recruiting for a wide range of roles throughout July, including everything from Finance Administrators and Analysts, right through to Supervisors and Team Leaders.As well as a competitive salary, successful applicants will enjoy a range of other benefits, with employee discounts, a great pension scheme and development opportunities all on offer.Clarks: shoes careers with support.Locations:  Throughout the UKView all jobs with Clarks hereThe Gym Are you a fitness fanatic looking for a career you can feel passionate about? Want to get a qualification to help set you up for life?Just don’t want to pay for your gym membership?If the answer is yes to all three, then you’re in luck. That’s because The Gym are on the hunt for energetic and fitness-focused people to start exciting careers as Personal Trainers. And you don’t even need previous qualifications to get started.That’s because they’re offering courses to help you become Level 3 qualified and gym-floor ready in as little as 5 weeks after which you’re guaranteed interviews for available opportunities at The Gym locations across the country.And with The Gym Group boasting over 160 state-of-the-art locations throughout the UK, you certainly won’t struggle for choice.So, if you want a life-changing career where you can see real results (and/or you’re looking to get beach body ready in a hurry), apply for a position with The Gym today.Locations:  Throughout the UKView all jobs with The Gym hereHermes Hermes is the UKs leading consumer delivery specialist, handling over 260 million parcels each and every year.Not only do they provide a range of flexible and affordable delivery options to fit within people’s increasingly busy lifestyles, they’re also paving the way when it comes to flexible employment.Within the UK, Hermes operates a network of over 16,000 self-employed couriers, allowing their staff to deliver parcels in their local area, work to their own schedule and enjoy a great work-life balance.And all of that comes with absolutely no start-up costs. Hermes will provide all the required training and equipment up front, from day one â€" allowing you to concentrate on the job at hand.AKA delivering parcels. Lots and lots of parcels.Side note: as well as being the messenger of the God’s in Greek mythology, the eponymous Hermes was also god of roads, travellers, trade, and trickery.We can’t guarantee that it’ll help you get the job. But it can’t hurt to cover all bases.Locations:  Throughout the UKView all jobs with Hermes hereLidl Looking for a fresh start? Every Lidl helps.With over 700 stores, 13 regio nal warehouses and over 20,000 employees in the UK alone, it’s clear that the German supermarket giant doesn’t like to stand still.Continually challenging and changing the world of retail as they grow, they aim to make their stores, goods and shopping experience better than ever for every one of their customers.And that responsibility is shared by every single member of staff they employ.They’re looking for ambitious, motivated, talented individuals who are ready to join a dynamic, engaging environment to make the very most of their potential.So whether you want to work as a Warehouse Worker in Wolverhampton, a Shift Manager in Stoke-on-Trent, or in the HR team in their Wimbledon-based Head Office, the right opportunity for you is out there.N.B. Luckily, they also have lots of roles which involve no alliteration whatsoever.Locations:  Throughout the UKView all jobs with Lidl hereReady to love Mondays?  View all of our current vacancies nowFind a job What Where Search JobsSi gn up for more Career AdviceSign up for moreCareer Advice Please enter a valid email addressmessage hereBy clicking Submit you agree to the terms and conditions applicable to our service and acknowledge that your personal data will be used in accordance with our privacy policy and you will receive emails and communications about jobs and career related topics. Features Where can I work?

Resume Writing Services That Help You Effectively Boost Your Salary With Proper Resume Writing

Resume Writing Services That Help You Effectively Boost Your Salary With Proper Resume WritingWriting a resume is not as easy as it looks. It may seem so simple, but the truth is that it takes a lot of effort to compose the right kind of resume that is also attractive and appealing to potential employers.A good resume is one that has to be well written, informative and as concise as possible. A resume needs to be presented in such a way that potential employers find it hard to resist the call of your services. This is especially true if you are a professional such as a teacher or a doctor or even a self-employed individual.But what do you do if you can't afford to hire the services of professional resume writers such as those of Kalamazoo Mi? Well, if your qualifications are limited or you are new to this industry then it would be wise to get your resume writing done by another option, a free service.Some of the best free resume writing services that I have come across include Kalama zoo Mi. I won't discuss the resume services they offer in this article, but I will mention a few things that I found interesting about Kalamazoo Mi.First, the service of Kalamazoo Mi does not charge any fees for submitting the resume. All these services allow you to do is edit, proofread and polish your resume by typing up a resume that would be easier to read and understand.Second, all the resumes that they provide are very professional. Some companies even offer free tips on how to improve the style of your resume. If you do not know how to format your resume properly, Kalamazoo Mi can help you out.Third, there are many templates provided by Kalamazoo Mi. I especially like their optional template that includes your previous job experience and education. Although this template is meant to make it easier for the employer to identify you, I still found it to be an effective resume tool.Lastly, the site of Kalamazoo Mi provides users with a free resume sample. It would be nice if you could use this sample to get your resume done without any cost.

Its Counterintuitive for Job Seekers - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

It’s Counterintuitive for Job Seekers - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career It would be interesting to review a few perceptions that job seekers have on issues stemming from feelings rather than from thinking. Such perceptions are based more on gut feelings rather than logic. Examples follow. The interview is about me. People feel good when asked to come in and interview, because they think the interview is about them. In fact, it is not. The interview is about the interviewer’s needs and the interviewer’s competitive evaluation process that considers the candidate’s ability to provide what the interviewer needs. Accept LinkedIn invitations only from people you know. When in transition, it’s not about whom you know so much as it is who knows you. After all, it’s you who is looking for a job. And the more connections you have, the more opportunities you’ll have. If you’re hiding in a box, no one will find you. Create your own résumé. People in transition need to preserve their savings, and so many compose their own résumés, which eventually get changed or edited or rewritten by others equally unqualified yet willing to help. The typical outcome is a less than competitive résumé that generates very few or no bites. The best advice, therefore, is to hire a trusted and recommended professional, certified, and experienced résumé writer. A less expensive solutionâ€"provided you’re absolutely certain your résumé is a good oneâ€"is to have it edited by a professional editor. Such an editor or resume writer knows what sells and would put that knowledge and expertise to work for you. And yes, the good ones are not inexpensive. No need to tell family about being in transition. Many people feel uneasy or embarrassed about revealing too many details of their transition. That’s a big mistake, because family and friends really are the people who will go out of their way to be of help. No need to pay for career coaching. Again, like with the résumé, people want to preserve their savings and do not want to spend on professional help such as experienced career coaches. This too is a huge mistake. A career coach will not only shorten the in-transition period but also teach you pertinent interviewing skills as well as how to negotiate a job offer. In most cases, fees spent on career coaching are dwarfed by the benefits gained from knowing how to negotiate a better compensation package. Focus only on your past career path and ignore other possibilities. In today’s fast-changing business environment, new jobs are being invented every day, and many of the past’s traditional jobs are morphing into new ones or becoming totally eliminated. Job seekers who do not consider job opportunities in fields unrelated to their past ones make a mistake. Some reach a pointâ€"possibly because of age discrimination or the elimination of their traditional jobsâ€"at which a change in career might be a wonderful solution. It worked for me extremely well. Author: Alex Freund  is a career and interviewing coach known as the “landing expert” for publishing his 80 page list of job-search networking groups via his web site  http://www.landingexpert.com/. He is prominent in a number of job-search networking groups; makes frequent public presentations, he does workshops on resumes and LinkedIn, teaches a career development seminar and publishes his blog focused on job seekers. Alex worked at Fortune 100 companies headquarters managing many and large departments. He has extensive experience at interviewing people for jobs and is considered an expert in preparing people for interviews. Alex    is a Cornell University grad, lived on three continents and speaks five languages. It’s Counterintuitive for Job Seekers - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career It would be interesting to review a few perceptions that job seekers have on issues stemming from feelings rather than from thinking. Such perceptions are based more on gut feelings rather than logic. Examples follow. The interview is about me. People feel good when asked to come in and interview, because they think the interview is about them. In fact, it is not. The interview is about the interviewer’s needs and the interviewer’s competitive evaluation process that considers the candidate’s ability to provide what the interviewer needs. Accept LinkedIn invitations only from people you know. When in transition, it’s not about whom you know so much as it is who knows you. After all, it’s you who is looking for a job. And the more connections you have, the more opportunities you’ll have. If you’re hiding in a box, no one will find you. Create your own résumé. People in transition need to preserve their savings, and so many compose their own résumés, which eventually get changed or edited or rewritten by others equally unqualified yet willing to help. The typical outcome is a less than competitive résumé that generates very few or no bites. The best advice, therefore, is to hire a trusted and recommended professional, certified, and experienced résumé writer. A less expensive solutionâ€"provided you’re absolutely certain your résumé is a good oneâ€"is to have it edited by a professional editor. Such an editor or resume writer knows what sells and would put that knowledge and expertise to work for you. And yes, the good ones are not inexpensive. No need to tell family about being in transition. Many people feel uneasy or embarrassed about revealing too many details of their transition. That’s a big mistake, because family and friends really are the people who will go out of their way to be of help. No need to pay for career coaching. Again, like with the résumé, people want to preserve their savings and do not want to spend on professional help such as experienced career coaches. This too is a huge mistake. A career coach will not only shorten the in-transition period but also teach you pertinent interviewing skills as well as how to negotiate a job offer. In most cases, fees spent on career coaching are dwarfed by the benefits gained from knowing how to negotiate a better compensation package. Focus only on your past career path and ignore other possibilities. In today’s fast-changing business environment, new jobs are being invented every day, and many of the past’s traditional jobs are morphing into new ones or becoming totally eliminated. Job seekers who do not consider job opportunities in fields unrelated to their past ones make a mistake. Some reach a pointâ€"possibly because of age discrimination or the elimination of their traditional jobsâ€"at which a change in career might be a wonderful solution. It worked for me extremely well.

Expand Your Brand on a Busmans Holiday - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Expand Your Brand on a Busmans Holiday - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Want to expand your personal brand and find a way to pay for some vacation time at the same time? Try a busmans holiday. A busmans holiday is a vacation where you spend a lot of your time doing the same thing, or at least something similar, to your regular job. The term is originally British, where the term holiday means vacation. It referred to a bus driver going on a long bus trip for his vacation. So an artist would hang out in museums and galleries, an actor would watch plays, and an astronomer would head out to the desert for some star gazing. So how can you take a busmans holiday to expand your own personal brand? Better yet, why should you even bother? Youre on vacation, right? True, but consider some of the tax and cost implications of what youre doing. When youre on vacation, youre on vacation. And when youre working, youre working. But if you had to travel for work and paid for it yourself, then you get some tax benefits for it, especially if youre an entrepreneur or own a small business. Here are three things you can use some vacation time to grow your personal brand, or better yet, get work to pay for some of it. 1. Schedule coffee meetings and lunches with people in other cities on vacation. Before you leave, reach out to people in your network who live in other cities, and invite them to coffee or a meal. Conduct the same kind of one-on-one meeting weve told you about in other blog posts. This does a couple of things. First, youre meeting new people and building professional relationships that could benefit you later on. Second, you can at least claim those meals and costs on your taxes . 2. Add an extra day or two onto a conference trip. When youre in a new city at a conference, rarely do you get to leave the hotel, let alone see some of the sites. But if your travel plans have you home at the end of the week, look at the costs of extending your stay for a day or two. In some cases, that may slash the cost of a plane ticket enough to even pay for the extra hotel nights. But even if it doesnt, push the travel dates out a day or two on either end, take a couple days off work, pay for those extra hotel nights and meals, and take some time to see some of the sites. As long as you keep personal and work costs separate, youre getting a working vacation, and youre only paying for the extras. 3. Attend conferences in vacation destination. Combine these last two ideas and attend conferences as part of a dream vacation. Have you always wanted to visit Montreal, or even Paris? There are plenty of conferences held in those cities that you could attend. There are also other professionals there worth meeting. Plan a vacation around the conference dates. See if you can pay for the conference and necessary costs through work, but then add your weeks vacation either on the front or back end of the trip. And if you take one or two days out of that for networking, you can even take some of the tax benefits for those days as well. Finally, please, oh please, get professional tax advice before you try writing off a four month trip to Europe over a single meeting. Speak with an accountant, ask them whats acceptable to claim as expenses, and then make sure you save receipts on everything. It may take some extra work on your part, but you can make a busmans holiday work (and fun) for you. Any time you leave your hometown, or even your home country, youve got a brand new opportunity to meet some new professionals and expand your personal brand and professional horizon. Take those opportunities whenever you find them, because you never know if theyre going to result in a dramatic turn in your life five years down the road. Author: Erik Deckers  is the owner of  Professional Blog Service, and the co-author of  Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself  and  No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide to Social Media Marketing.

How to Use Action Verbs in Resume Writing

How to Use Action Verbs in Resume WritingThe action verb of the professional is the action you performed while employed. Action verbs in resumes are most often 'performed'achieved.' This wording is part of a new generation of job seekers and employers who want to get more out of their employment experience.Actions can be anything from working an entire shift, planning and executing the schedules of each and every employee, and organizing meetings, activities, and even office parties. It is just about all of the duties, responsibilities, and responsibilities that an employer looks for in a job applicant.The thing to remember is that there is nothing wrong with the actions you did as a professional when you wrote your resume. You can use the action verb in resume writing to write a resume that really is specific and focuses on the duties and responsibilities you had while employed. This means that you should use an action verb for every job position you were involved in.So how do you u se an action verb in resume writing? First, you need to have a detailed listing of each action that you have performed. Try to name each action verb separately so that the first and last names don't clash. Remember, if it is important to you, list it, but do not say 'performed.'For example, you might mention that you 'recalled on three occasions' and you might also name 'applied for a job,' 'studied for an interview,' and 'performed background and reference checks.' In this example, the first action verb 'recalled' and the last action verb 'applied' do not conflict.Your final action verb in resume writing for a professional career goals would be 'received job offers'asked about job openings.' These actions all are linked together and will show your commitment to taking charge of your professional life and your personal life.For instance, in writing your professional career goals, you might list the time period that you were employed, the job title you held, and your contact informat ion. Then you will include an action verb like 'reviewed this information with my supervisor,' or 'wrote an offer letter to a new position.'By putting a strong action verb in your resume, you are sure to stand out from the crowd of applicants. Just make sure you are going with a good word choice that makes a positive statement about what you accomplished while employed.