PR is a very popular career choice, and competition for jobs can be fierce. There are two options for people interested in pursuing a PR career – they can either work ‘in house’ as part of a company’s dedicated team, or join a public relations agency. London is the centre of the industry in the [...]
If you work for UK haulage companies then you may occasionally make trips to the continent. This can sometimes be one of the best parts of the job as you get to experience different countries and sights, and many haulage workers enjoy this aspect. If you get the chance to get off the motorways and [...]
If you work for haulage companies in the UK then you will undoubtedly spend a lot of time in your vehicle. Working on the road is a great job if you don’t like being cooped up in an office, but it is even better when you get to see interesting sights whilst on the job. [...]
One of the more interesting results of the scarce job market is the emergence of that admirable member of the haulage industry: the owner driver. Jobs that have traditionally been accomplished by employees of big companies are now being done by entrepreneurial people owning their own businesses. This can only be [...]
If you’ve been considering taking owner driver jobs as a means of making a living, there’s good news for you. Making a success of it is not as hard as some people make it out to be.
It is certainly no piece of cake, as any veteran in the delivery industry will tell [...]
Remember that dream you had while you were still at university? You know, the one about finishing your degree, getting a great job with great perks, meeting your soul mate and living happily ever after? Well, forget the dream and get the dream job – the rest will fall into place. Of all the jobs [...]
Taking on courier jobs for a living can be an extremely rewarding and profitable profession. Of the many advantages of this type of work, the most obvious are the diversity, the ability to earn a good day’s pay for a good day’s work and, perhaps the most attractive perk of all, the independence and freedom [...]
What is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)?
When search engines decide what pages to show in response to an inquiry, they consult their indexed database of millions of web pages and decide which are the most relevant results, and in what order they should show them. A job in SEO involves figuring out what search terms a [...]
You can’t open a newspaper or switch on the news at the moment without hearing about the economic downturn that the whole of the western world is suffering from. Hardly any sectors are immune, and many companies are making redundancies in order to stay afloat. The worst part of this is that companies often slow [...]
The Basics
A CV should be a basic summary of your career-to-date and should ideally be kept to just two pages. If this is not possible then three pages will suffice but in reality travel recruitment companies rarely spend longer than two minutes looking at each individual CV and too much information will simply overwhelm them.
When [...]
What do employers want? This is the maddening question that every job seeker is trying to answer – as a travel recruitment specialist, I see plenty of people scratching their heads when they are applying for travel jobs, trying to figure out what the potential employer really wants from them. Of course, most job adverts [...]
