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Starting Out

First Job? Here's What No One Tells You About Your First 90 Days

Nobody expects you to know the job on day one. What they are quietly assessing is something else entirely, and most new starters spend their first three months optimising for the wrong thing.

9 min
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Career Advice

The Hidden Job Market: How Roles Get Filled Before They're Advertised

By the time a job is advertised, it has usually existed for weeks and someone is often already in mind. Here is what happens in those weeks, and how people reach roles before the queue forms.

10 min
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Applying

What Job Adverts Really Mean: A Line-by-Line Decoder

Job adverts have their own dialect. Learning to read it saves you from applying for the wrong roles, and tells you what to ask before you accept the right ones.

10 min
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Career Advice

How to Job Hunt While You're Still Employed

Looking for work while you have a job is the strongest position to search from, and the easiest one to damage through carelessness. Here is how to run a discreet search without risking the job you still have.

9 min
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Career Advice

How to Ask for a Raise in Your Current Job

Negotiating a new offer is the easy version. Asking the employer you already work for is harder, because your manager knows exactly what you do and has to justify the increase to somebody else.

5 min
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Career Advice

Will AI Take Our Jobs? What Previous Predictions Got Wrong

Every major technology of the last century was expected to erase work, and the prediction failed the same way each time. It was rarely wrong about the technology. It was wrong about what people did next.

7 min
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Applying

Using AI to Write Your Job Application: What Helps and What Backfires

AI is genuinely useful for parts of an application and quietly damaging for others. The difference comes down to whether it is editing your material or inventing it.

4 min
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Career Advice

Signs a Job Offer Is a Red Flag (And When to Walk Away)

Not every offer is worth taking, and some are not real offers at all. The warning signs are usually visible before you sign, if you know what to look for.

9 min
A person applying for jobs on a laptop
Applying

How to Apply for Jobs Online the Right Way

Online applications reward method, not volume. A repeatable system for finding the right roles, tailoring quickly, and following up without becoming a nuisance.

9 min
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Applying

10 Mistakes That Get Your Job Application Rejected Instantly

Some applications are rejected before anyone reads your experience. These are the ten errors that end an application in seconds, and what to do instead.

8 min
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Applying

Why Your CV Never Reaches a Human: How ATS Software Actually Reads It

Most mid-sized and large employers never have a person open your CV first. A piece of software does, and it is far less forgiving of design than any hiring manager would be.

8 min
A jobseeker looking at a message from a recruiter on a phone screen
Applying

When the Interview Is the Scam: How Fake Recruiters Operate

Most advice about job scams starts at the offer. The newer versions never get that far. The interview itself is the product, and what it collects from you is worth more than the job that does not exist.

8 min
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Career Advice

Salary Negotiation: How to Ask for What You Deserve

Most candidates accept the first number offered. A short, well prepared conversation is usually the difference between the salary you are offered and the salary you are worth.

10 min
A candidate speaking during a job interview
Interviews

What to Say When They Ask "Tell Me About Yourself"

It is the first question in almost every interview and the one candidates prepare least. Here is a structure that turns a vague opener into your strongest ninety seconds.

8 min
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Career Advice

Should You Accept a Counter-Offer? What Usually Happens Next

The raise that appears within hours of your resignation is not usually about what you are worth. It is about what losing you, right now, would cost. Those are different numbers, and the gap between them explains most of what happens next.

7 min
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Updates

Introducing Gilgamesh 2.3

A new generation of AI-powered talent matching. Gilgamesh 2.3 understands the relationship between people, skills, experience and opportunities, far beyond keyword matching.

6 min
A folder of employment documents and a phone on a desk during a verification call
Applying

What Actually Happens During a Background Check

A background check is not one thing. It is four or five separate checks, run by different people, against different records, each capable of stalling an offer for a reason that has nothing to do with you.

8 min
A candidate reviewing their online profile on a laptop
Career Advice

Four Things That Make Employers Skip Your Profile

None of them are about your experience or your qualifications. They are small, fixable details in the profile itself, and each one quietly costs candidates interviews.

5 min
A manager taking a reference call at a desk while reviewing a printed CV
Applying

References: Who to Ask, What They're Really Asked, and What They Can Say

Most candidates pick referees in a rush at the final stage, having never asked what happens on that call. It is the one part of hiring conducted entirely without you in the room.

10 min
A recruiter reviewing job applications on a computer screen
Applying

What Happens to Your Application After You Click Send

Your application does not disappear. It joins a queue, gets parsed by software, and is sorted by a person under time pressure. Here is the journey it actually takes, and where most applications quietly stop.

10 min
A person sitting at a desk during a video job interview
Interviews

How to Prepare for a Video Interview (Camera, Sound and What to Say)

A video interview is judged on things that never come up in a room: your sound, your lighting, your eye contact. Here is how to get the setup right and how to adapt your answers to a screen.

9 min
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Career Advice

How to Build a Professional Profile That Employers Notice

Your online profile works while you sleep. Most are half finished, keyword-free and invisible in search. A focused hour can change how many employers find you.

9 min
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Career Advice

How to Explain a Gap in Your Work History

Employment gaps worry candidates far more than they worry employers. What actually causes problems is the attempt to hide one. Here is how to handle it on paper and in the room.

8 min
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Interviews

7 Interview Questions You Should Always Prepare For

Interviews vary, but the same seven questions appear again and again. Prepare these properly and you will have an answer ready for most of what you are asked.

10 min
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CV & Resume

How to Write a CV That Actually Gets You Interviews

Most CVs are rejected in under ten seconds. Here is what recruiters actually look for, how to structure each section, and the small rewrites that turn a generic CV into interview invitations.

9 min
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