Part three of a three-part series on the UK job market heading into Q4 2026. Part one and part two are worth reading first if you have not already. The data is clear that this is a slower, more competitive…
Part two of a three-part series on the UK job market heading into Q4 2026. Read part one first → A national unemployment figure only tells part of the story. Underneath it, the picture varies a great deal by sector,…
Part one of a three-part series on the UK job market heading into Q4 2026. If your job search has felt harder this year, the data backs up what you are experiencing. The UK is currently in what economists are…
A new report from Monster has reignited a familiar debate: more than a quarter of workers admit to fudging the truth on their CV. But when we dug into the research on both sides of the Atlantic, the honest picture…
This is the last post in a 4-part series. Post 1 looked at the data, Post 2 covered the employers already hiring older workers, and Post 3 covered how to position yourself. This one is deliberately short and practical: where…
So far in this series, I’ve covered what the data says about the UK job market for over-50s and which employers are actively hiring in this age group. This post is about what you actually do differently in your own…
In part 1 of this series, I looked at what the data says about the UK job market for over-50s: high overall employment, but a real hiring penalty at the point of application. This post is about the other side…
The shops put the pencil cases out in July. You notice, even though nobody in your house needs a pencil case. Then the light changes in the last week of August, something in you starts making lists, and the annual…
There is a story job seekers tell each other a lot at the moment: send off a CV, hear nothing, and assume a robot rejected you in half a second flat. It is a satisfying story because it explains the…
