Good career advice is about providing you with guidance and practical tips on employment issues and making the right career choices. On this page you will find links to useful resources and articles that can help you if your starting out on a career or are thinking of a career change.

Making the right decisions is crucial to having a successful career. Dayjob’s career advice can help you make the right choices by showing you opportunities, options and solutions that you might not have previously been aware of.

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Career change
Information and advice on how to plan, research and action a successful career change. getting it right can mean better working conditions, job satisfaction, salary and promotion prospects.

Career planning
Careful career planning can stop you going from one bad job or career straight into another one. By carefully researching job profiles and also assessing your skills and needs you can go along way to ensuring you have a satisfying and successful future career.

Career training
Having the right training and qualifications can go along way to helping you get your dream job. Get advice on choosing the right career based training course to improve your existing skill sets or gain new ones.

Choosing a career 
Nobody wants to be stuck in a career where they are bored, dread going to work in the morning and don’t feel valued at all. You can avoid this nightmare scenario by asking yourself some basic questions at the start of your working life.

Constructive dismissal
This occurs when employees feel they have no option but to resign because of their employers conduct towards them. In these circumstances the employee does have certain rights on their side.

Discrimination in the workplace
Legislation exists to protect every employee from discrimination on the grounds of their race, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation or religion. These equal opportunity laws are there to ensure that everyone is treated fairly and not discriminated against.

Finding a job
To maximise your chances of finding your ideal job look for vacancies in as many places as you can. Visit online job boards, read newspapers, watch and listen to radio & television adverts, register with recruitment agencies, visit career fairs or network at events.

How to write a CV
Your curriculum vitae is a sales and marketing document that to have maximum effect must be written to the highest standards.

Job application advice
By practising you can develop and improve your job application skills and therefore stand out. Make a first good impression with potential employers by making sure any application form or CV you send to them is professionally written.

Job interview tips
By preparing thoroughly and learning simple interview skills that you can gain confidence for any tough interviews.

Job profiles
Discover and get a better understanding of the job description, duties, responsibilities, salary and qualifications or skill sets required for different careers.

Personal qualities that employers look for in candidates
A list of the top personal characteristics like energy, enthusiasm and leadership that recruiters look for in a applicant.

Problems at work
Get advice on how to handle employment problems like discrimination, disciplinary procedures or employment tribunals. All of these can be resolved formally or informally via mediation, conciliation or grievance procedures.

Recruitment agencies
These agencies work by matching and placing suitable and qualified candidates with employers vacancies. The benefits for a jobseeker are that by registering with a recruitment agency you can let them do the job hunting for you.

Redundancy advice
Get guidance and advice on how to deal with redundancy. Find out about your employment rights to do with redundancy lump sum payments, time limits and much more.

Salary calculator
Advice on the average salaries across various industries and also calculating how changes to National Insurance or income tax can affect your salary.

Self employment
Discover the advantages and also disadvantages of being self employed. For instance you could potentially earn a lot of money however the hours can be very long and you will have more responsibilities like tax returns and having to deal with banks etc.

Standing out from the crowd 
Most people are happy to spend money and time on buying clothes and fashion items to get noticed by their families, friends and admirers. However when it comes to their careers very few are willing to spend a fraction of that amount of effort on getting noticed by employers.

Typical interview questions 
Go to an interview prepared by knowing what questions you are most likely to be asked during the interview and just as importantly what answers to give them. Look at questions put to you are opportunities for you to show off your skills and knowledge of your industry and also the company you are applying to.

Working abroad
Information on the opportunities available to work abroad, what the likely pitfalls are and also the potential rewards.