This article may not be our normal type of directly related Careers Advice but we think it’s an important subject to raise, with all the issues in politics at the moment mainly revolving around expenses of MP’s whilst we have our personal views on that subject we don’t believe that the constant calls for a general election would be of any benefit to the UK economy or go any way to helping restore the UK jobs market.

        

There are strict regulations covering the hours young people can work and the minimum age for working. These laws are in place to ensure young people of school age are protected, their health and safety is looked after and to prevent exploitation. The law states that young people may only do work which isn’t likely to be harmful to the safety, health and development of the person.

        

To continue our last post Spotting Job Search Scams here are a few more types of Employment based scams you should be aware of:

        

As part of our series of articles highlighting Government Funded Support to help the United Kingdom’s unemployed back in to full time sustainable work, this article is about Entry to Employment E2E which is funded by the Learning and Skills Council and the Jobcentre Plus Network, E2E is a programme designed for Young People

        

It’s the announcement you don’t want: your employer is no longer able to pay you and you’re being given the big heave-ho. TheSite.org investigates what you are entitled to when you are made redundant.

        

As part of our series of articles highlighting Government Funded Support to help the United Kingdom’s unemployed back in to full time sustainable work, this article is designed for disabled people who are looking to return to work, the New Deal for Disabled People programme is designed just for you to help you back in to employment.

        

Everyone’s doing it these days the Twitter revolution is firmly upon us, if you don’t know what Twitter is yet it’s called a micro blog site and allows you 140 characters where you can tell people what you are doing at any point during a day.

        

Each week we will be bringing you a new jobsite which our Career Engineer team will be signing up to and giving a tough time to grade the site in a number of key areas and rating the website out of 5 *’s

        

As part of our series of articles highlighting Government Funded Support to help the United Kingdom’s unemployed back in to full time sustainable work, this article is designed for people aged between 18 and 24 who are unemployed and who are looking to return to work, the New Deal for Young People programme is designed just for you to help you back in to employment.

        

It is becoming increasingly more important to be aware of your online reputation these days with so many employers choosing to Google potential employees before they even consider sending them an invite for the interview.