All Careers Advice

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.

Career Profile: Hear from Dr Deborah, a Senior Educational Psychologist at Birmingham City Council, about her story and what a career as a Educational Psychologist is like.

Career Profile: Hear from Claire, a Housing Locality Officer at Redditch Borough Council, about her story and what a career as a Housing Locality Officer is like.

Career Profile: Hear from Charlotte, a Senior Planning Officer at Bromsgrove and Reddich Councils, about her story and what a career as a Planning Officer is like.

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.

Meet Rose Leonard. A self confessed doer who loves helping people. She came to the council on a six week stint helping out with processing bus passes for concessionary travel and she’s still there twenty eight years later.

Meet Hamish Cameron. Ultra passionate about his job as a youth worker for Warwickshire County Council.

West Midlands Employers caught up with Ross Webber, who works helping rough sleepers for Worcester City Council, to find out more.

Meet Stephen Philpott. Just two months in to a six month contract for Birmingham City Council leading on rough sleepers, then Lockdown starts and the Government instruction to councils follows: get everyone in and off the streets and keep them safe. You have 48 hours to do this. The previous Gove...

Meet David. Three years with Stratford District Council managing a team of 120 with a diverse remit - business rates, customer services, benefits and information technology.

Meet Esther Epstein. She’s armed with the perfect skills to be working in communications; chatty, organised and thrives under pressure.

This is humanitarian aid – we’re delivering thousands of food parcels to our most vulnerable residents Meet Colin Parr. Absolutely thriving in his new role at Wolverhampton City Council.