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 over 25 who have been unemployed for over 18 months and who are looking to return to work, the New Deal 25+ programme is designed just for you to help you back in to employment.

        

Ask yourself a simple question:

        

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WHAT THE INTERVIEWER IS AFTER
Few interview questions invoke as much dread as “Tell me about your greatest weakness?” Keep in mind that by asking this question that the interviewer is trying to determine if you engage in self analysis and how you handle difficult questions.

        

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.

        

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.

        

The question we have been asked so many times in recent months, the simple answer has to be a big YES from us at The Career Engineer.

        

We’ve all read the stories of employers hitting the Google search button on people they are interested in employing and we’ve also read the stories about people being sacked for comments they make on Social Networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.