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Back with another weekly jobs summary, giving you the latest jobs of the week in both Civil Service and Private Sector.

All the links to these jobs are in the bio.

Here's the latest job summary of the week brought to you by Careers Pal ⭐

Links to the jobs are included in the comments

Here’s the agenda items for the Civil Service Workshop 🤩

Considering this will be our first ever Civil Service Workshop, we will be sharing a lot of content to steer you in the right direction when completing your civil service application and help fast track you into a career in Civil Service.

If you are a student or a recent graduate struggling to understand the framework and apply it to your own experiences, then this is for you.

You can register a place on this workshop using the link in our bio.

Please kindly share the message and link to those who may be interested in joining.

I look forward to seeing you there 😃

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

On Friday 28th April 2023, I will be running a workshop on Civil Service Success Profile Breakdown.

This is aimed at students and recent graduates who are struggling to apply the framework into their behavioural examples.

I will be going through the grading criteria, what the success profile is about, the behaviours, strengths, etc.

You can grab your ticket through the link in my bio!

At work, we have various policies and work processes to follow, but have you ever thought about what you should do and shouldn't do at work?

Having been in the real world of work for good number of years, I've experienced changes in working environments and mainly processes.

So that's why I'm here to share what I've learnt through my experience by being observant and learning from colleagues and especially from senior management.

I hope you find this valuable and treat this as a guideline when you're starting fresh into a role.

Now over to you, have you experienced this at work and if you're new into a role, would you apply some of these tips? I'd like to get a good feel of how you guys been finding it 👇

One of our clients came across our platform and what we offer in terms of career services and approached us as they felt they could benefit from our interview package.

They had a Civil Service interview for a Case Administrator role for the National Probation Service – Ministry of Justice.

In our session virtually, we went through interview techniques – how to deliver strong examples and tackling common questions which may pop up in relation to the behaviours and strengths being assessed as part of the success profile.

We’ve gone through real examples on how to answer interview questions for an Administrative Officer grade within civil service, so they are prepared for what’s to come in the actual interview.

Our client took away key pointers from the session and nailed the interview, feeling confident and hopeful they’d smash it.

They also went for another interview which they thought they did well – we gave some tips for that interview too!

This is solid proof our interview package guarantees results but your engagement and work are vital in the process.

If you have interviews coming up and would like a session with us, you can book one by sending us a DM and we will get back to you with more details.

Stepping into a career can take some time, especially when you have to acquire transferable skills, so this is why I advise students and graduates to find any job just to build these skills.

This post will help you to find your feet in your career through two simple yet effective strategies.

What strategies have you been implementing to set yourself up for a career you'll enjoy?

I have noticed quite a lot of people struggle with civil service personal statement writing especially when there's different role grades (AO, EO and HEO).

In this post, we reveal useful pointers you can use in writing an effective personal statement within the Civil Service, so you get higher marks at the sifting stage.

We hope you find this post useful.

If you require support with personal statement writing, we do a personal statement writing and review session for £35 for an hour. All you have to do is DM us what you are struggling with and we will arrange a zoom call to go through it together.

Are you struggling to reach out to Hiring Managers on LinkedIn as Students?

We’ve got a sample linkedin template ready for you to use when reaching out on LinkedIn.

This will aid you in structuring your linkedin message and secure a connection with the hiring manager before making the decision to apply for the role they’re advertising for.

If you’d like to look at more templates for a student and graduate, click on the link in our bio for free templates.

I received a question from a student who asked how we can be effective when connecting with new members in companies to gain something valuable.

It was a great question which I thought I'd write a detailed post about.

The way you approach new members has to be personal but also professional.

In this post, I have outlined what you can do to connect with new members for a gain on both sides (you and the hiring manager for example).

Let us know how you've been connecting with new members in companies to gain something valuable. We'd love to hear your perspective on this 😃🌟

It is certainly true that top job roles require a high calibre of experiences.

In this post, we look at three top job roles and what type of experience you'll need to break into the field.

Let me run through the three top job roles here 👇
1. Lawyer - to become a great lawyer, you can acquire some experience as a legal administrator or a paralegal. You will learn how to draft legal documents and negotiate in a court case effectively through shadowing a barrister/solicitor
2. Doctor - to break through in the medical field, you'll need medical experience and experience working in a local GP practice. You will be exposed to the environment as it will be hands-on and beneficial
3. Data Scientist - to be successful in a career in data science, you need to gain coding experience. That can be acquired by completing coding challenges and projects which will help you utilise specific coding languages and data tools

Hope you found this post insightful!

Let me know in the comments below what other job roles you'd like me to cover for a Part 2 😊✨

We’ve got an email template you can use when responding to an interview invite! 📧

When responding to an employer, you must ensure you’re courteous and grateful for the interview invite and be willing to provide them with documents to help with background checks, should you become successful.

So next time you receive an email similar to the one in this post, apply this and you will give out a good impression to the employer. They will note down that you responded to their email invite in a courteous manner 😊