Expert advice on resume writing, ATS optimisation, career transitions, and landing your dream job.
Should you put references on your CV? Usually not. A UK guide to handling CV references, ditching the 'available on request' filler, and prepping your referees.
The UK plumber's guide to beating the ATS. Gas Safe, NVQ, WRAS and G3 keywords, real trade vocabulary, and before/after bullets with numbers that get you the callback.
The questions you ask are still part of the assessment. Learn which questions to ask interviewers, grouped by purpose, plus who to ask and what to avoid.
A complete practical walkthrough of LinkedIn profile optimisation: headline, About, skills, Open to Work, and the completeness point that gets you found by recruiters.
Redundancy carries no stigma when framed right. Learn whether to mention it on your CV, how to phrase it neutrally, and how to keep momentum during your search.
How to write a return to work CV after a longer career break: put the break up front, frame it honestly, use returnships and refresh skills before you apply.
A career change CV must convince a stranger that experience in one field predicts success in another. How to reframe transferable skills, structure it, and pass the ATS.
Single job postings now draw 400 to 1,000+ AI-generated applications in days. Here is why spray-and-pray fails harder than ever, and how tailoring wins in 2026.
The funded-hours hiring surge brought more early years jobs and more competition. Learn the EYFS, safeguarding and qualification keywords that get your nursery CV past the ATS filter.
The UK keywords that get a receptionist CV past the ATS: front of house, switchboard, SystmOne, Opera, SIMS, plus how to quantify calls, visitors and diaries by sector.
Your SIA licence is a hard filter. Learn the exact UK security CV keywords by role, how to quantify shift work, and where to put your licence so ATS and recruiters find it fast.
The exact UK warehouse CV keywords, quantified bullets and certifications that get you past the ATS and into the interview, from picker to warehouse supervisor.
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