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Can you interview for other jobs...
If you have just started a new job? Also could new job sack you for wanting to interview elsewhere? Thanks...
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Can you...
Reverse turning a job down? Friend of mine got offered two jobs and obviously turned the other down. She is now thinking she has made the wrong choice as new job is not quite what she thought... Any suggestions? Could she email HR dept or is this not a done thing?
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Human Anatomy Short Course
Hey all! I recently passed my Certificate of Higher Education with the Open University. I have just registered on the Diploma of Higher Education but there are no courses that I want to study until October 2014. In the mean time I am looking for a course in Human Anatomy that I can study online in my own time. Problem is…
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Compulsory Holidays
Hi all, My wife works as a receptionist at a hotel and has gone into work this evening to receive a letter, as did everyone else in the hotel, saying that as the hotel is going through a refurb in the new year, they are making every employee take 2 weeks annual leave, as the hotel will not fully be open. This is completely…
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Writing a person spec letter
Hi, Im really struggling to write a person specific cover letter, I dont know if I am getting my points across or what. Does anyone have any useful tips or pointers for it. Its at a medical school
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Agency fees
I have been working for a company via an agency for around 6 months now. Employing company gave about 5 application forms to those on the agency to fill in with the intention of taking us off the agency. Now the company found out they have to pay the agency £1,500 for every worker they want to employ direct. As the…
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Part time MBA for an automotive contractor
Hello all, Sorry for long post, seeking some career advice here: I am in mid 30s, have a BEng honours in Computer Science Engineering and have been working in automotive sector in the SE England for the last 12.5 years as software and mainly diagnostics engineer, contracting through various agencies for the last 9 years,…
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Nasty Emails from Colleague
Hi I need some advice, I have been covering for a colleague while they are off sick and while checking their emails I have found an email to a colleague which says some nasty things about me, the colleague in question does often put me down in front of other staff and the boss. What is the best way to handle this
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Chasing up HR after job interview?
Some of you might remember that I posted about my references being taken up for a potential job that I had been interviewed for before being offered the post. Anyway. I was told that I would hear by the end of last week (at the interview). The interview was last Tuesday and I haven't heard anything other than the fact that…
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Post Work Programme Support
So I have now been to my 2nd appointment at Jobcentre at 12pm and these are the things I need to do: 1.Write to at least 10 employers a week 2. Phone at least 3 employers a week 3. Visit at least 3 employers a week. 4. Check my Universal Jobmatch account for 14 times a week at least. 5. Ask family, friends and people I…
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Pre Employment credit check - HELP
Hi there, Basically I have just been offered a conditional offer for employment with a well known bank. I am a bit worried about the credit check that they do as the offer will be withdrawn if I fail it. I have 0 defaults/delinquent debts, no CCJs or any thing like that, just a credit card and over draft that I continually…
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Difficulty in Finding part time work..Any Advice please?
Hi There. Have worked for the same employer for 6 years and now need to seek part time employment due to care of my child. HOWEVER I am finding the following difficult! I have had some interviews in retail as I am happy to do anything but care work. In an interview for Dorothy Perkins I was asked if I was so 'great' why…
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off sick from work, manager doesn't believe I'm ill - saying will not pay holiday pay
I am having a problem at work. Basically I have had a cold/flu type thing since friday and as im asthmatic it has affected my asthma. Yesterday I was due to work all day (8-8) and felt so ill I asked to go home. I was pretty much "accused" of only wanting to go home as my colleague was on annual leave (colleague is my best…
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Allergic to work's universal cleaner. What shall I do?
My employer changed the universal cleaning product over 2 years ago. My job is not a cleaner, but we are told to clean our area everyday before the end of the working day. The cleaning product comes in spray bottles where we have to empty the contents and fill them up again. We put in a measured dose of the concentrated…
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Should I have told them?
So I started a new job today with the cold (watery eyes, razor blades in the throat, that lovely bunged up feeling could only be me! ha ha!) I still went in because I was determined not to be phoning in sick on the 1st day which lets face would probably have been my last! I didn't let on that I felt not so well.. so bit…
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Paying tax after over 6 months of being on the dole?
A couple of people have told me that if your out of work and signing on for over 6 months, u don't have to pay tax for the first £9,000 you earn or something am I right?? if that is so, then why was I paying tax a few months ago when I went back to work?
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Team/Management woes
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Does my employer HAVE to increase my contract?
I currently work in retail on a 15 hour contract. However, since working at this specific store for the last 6 months, I have never done just 15 hours. I have just worked out my weekly hours, and most of them are 37.5 (full time) and over. The lowest I've worked is 20.5 and that was once. We currently have no manager or…
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uk employment stats
some interesting statistics here about the state of play with jobs... hiring-hub.com/blog/uks-employment-landscape-2013-infographic
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CII - J09 Paraplanning Module - anybody done this?
Hi all, just wondering if anybody has any experience of the CII's paraplanning module or of anything similar? I have recently started a new job working for an IFA and have enrolled on this module and am doing some studying for it today. So far it all seems quite generic, about the role of the paraplanner and the ethical…
