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.

        

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.

        

We have chosen this weeks career of the week for two main reasons, 1. It’s one of the most searched career qiestions on our website and it’s also coming up to June when the next crop of 16 years olds will be leaving school and wondering what to do next, and a career as a hairdresser is always one of the favourites.

        

Should you send a thank you letter after the interview?

        

Over the years, recruiters and employers have witnessed some weird and wonderful interview moments and below are just a few of the common mistakes that are made at interview and should be avoided.

        

Ask yourself a simple question:

        

When we originally found these videos on the internet we thought they were so well constructed and we thought they would be an ideal source of audio visual information for our website visitors and customers, since we originally posted them on the website they have been viewed over 20,000 times.

        

After each job interview you should take some time to assess what happened and whether you can learn anything from that interview that will help you in the next interview; design yourself a form that includes the following:

        

In over 10 years working in the recruitment and training sectors I have had many conversations with people who say to me that they don’t need to wear a shirt and tie for an interview because the job they do doesn’t need it.

        

If you are serious about looking for a job then you should treat your job search just like a job. Think about how you planned your day at work, and then apply that same planning to job search.