Careers Advice

You’ve secured your new role and now you’re ready for your first day, accompanied by a mixture of excitement and nerves. So, here’s ten top tips to help you survive your first week and start off on the right foot.

Our simple tips should help you write a perfect CV. Your CV, alongside your cover letter, is what gets you to the interview stage.

According to our recent poll, over 1/2 of people voted that the hardest thing about the job search is finding the right role. To aid you during this difficult time, we have compiled some expert tips and materials that will help you to find a job you will enjoy.

Here are five things everybody gets wrong about apprenticeships. How many did you know?

Anxious about returning to the workplace after having a baby? Take a look at this advice from real life working moms.

Congratulations! If you are reading this you are at the interview stage of the recruitment process! Or assuming you will get through – a little confidence is a good thing!

Meet Dave Barber. He’s the man in charge of getting town centres re-opened safely as part of his role as Head of Development Services for Warwick District Council.

Meet Sharon Howarth. “Enjoy everyday as if it’s your last” is Sharon’s live-by moto – perhaps not quite so surprising given her role. Sharon heads up Coventry’s Registrars and Coroners service.

Meet Ella Smith. Our youngest WM Everyday Hero so far at just 22 – she started working at Stafford Borough Council a week before her 17th birthday so a relatively recent recruit to the sector and already a valued asset.

Sean McBurney tells us how his team has been doing their bit to encourage isolated children, young people & families to stay active.

Meet Andrew Woodall. He’s the Library Service and Digital Inclusion Manager for Telford and Wrekin. While libraries have had to close due to the pandemic, he’s now focused on the ‘digital inclusion’ part of his job and leading a project to bring the joy of reading, and keeping in touch, into care...

Mannie Ketley, Executive Director Rugby BC, tells us how her team have been supporting the local community.

Meet Louise. She is playing a leading role in the council’s response and support to the local community.

You know that sinking feeling that settles in your stomach when you know there’s no way you’re getting the job? Us too. Bad interviews happen to everyone, and we all have that one worst interview experience that haunts us when the job search comes around.

Meet Jamie Lewis. He is Assistant Waste Management Superviser and he makes sure residents in Nuneaton and Bedworth get their bins emptied every week.

Meet Olivia Cooper. “Exhausted. Intense. Full on.” These are the words Olivia uses to describe the first weeks of lockdown, before adding, “Incredible. Amazing. A privilege.” It’s certainly been a privilege to hear her story.

Meet Harris Beaumont. He’s got one of the most diverse careers yet for a hero or indeed anyone for that matter. He started as domestic help in a residential home run by Walsall Council and was quickly promoted to a caring role.

Meet Gill Guy-Edwards. A proud Liverpudlian yet equally proud to call Stoke-on-Trent her second home. “I’ve been blown away with the warmth and community of Stoke-on-Trent, it’s an incredible place with a real heart.

Meet Dr Shade Agboola. Her passion for treating preventable diseases started in Nigeria while working to help prevent children dying from malaria and malnutrition.