We have 10 free tickets to giveaway to our Careers Club members for the Country Living Magazine Christmas Fair in London where you’ll be able to pick up unique gifts to delight your loved ones, as well as inspired ideas and decorations to bring that magical Christmas sparkle to your home. Meet hundreds of artisan...Read More
In the last few years, more women are entering into successful, challenging, high-paying careers in the UK. Here are four of the top paying jobs for today’s career women: Chief Executive Officers This was ranked as the highest paying job in the UK by both The Guardian and The Telegraph. A growing number of women...Read More
LBS to offer Senior Executive Programme scholarship worth £30k The 30% Club has teamed up with London Business School (LBS) to launch a full scholarship aimed at women in leadership positions with C-Suite potential. This scholarship is part of a growing 30% Club initiative to increase the progression of women to senior executive positions by...Read More
More women reading right subjects at right universities increases talent pool Diversity campaigns across financial services and professional services make careers more attractive Women also offered more jobs than before credit crunch due to more through hiring process – but recruiter warns against return to bad habits as market reheats The size of the female...Read More
Increasing the gender balance in the boardroom is now a well established best practice in most serious companies. There has been widespread lobbying from government and from representative groups which has focused not just on fairness but also on the wealth of untapped experience not being brought to the board table. Smart companies see it....Read More
Almost a million* UK managers are working in a way they feel is unethical, according to new figures released today by CMI (Chartered Management Institute), with the need to ‘get ahead’ at work being blamed. White lies are a constant in UK workplaces with almost one in three workers (30.4%) reporting they tell at least...Read More
It’s a question we ask at work whenever we’re faced with sending an important message: “Shall I fire off an email or pop a letter in the post?” In today’s fast-paced and busy world, we often turn to the quickest option. And yet a new study by Chartered Psychologists at London Metropolitan University has shown...Read More
A recent survey suggests that a 3rd of workers admit to dressing like their bosses and colleagues because managers more likely to reward employees who imitate their look. Is this not really subconscious and not pre-meditated? Corporate uniform to improve productivity? More than half of employees said they were influenced by what their managers and...Read More
We are pleased to announce that Careers City has just had a face lift providing easier navigation and mobile friendly pages, as well as our new section, Company Insights, here we are giving you the opportunity to understand how some of the top companies work from their employees perspective. We aim to add more and...Read More
If you have started the New Year back at the same desk with the same people doing the same job that bores you to tears, you have probably hit your work wall. There is only one thing to do now and only one person who can change that. You need to dust down that C.V....Read More
