You’ve fine-tuned your CV, found the job of your dreams and potentially sailed through a phone interview – congratulations. But, once you’ve got a job interview, there’s more hard work to come. You’ve got to make a great first impression in person in order to beat the competition and secure yourself the role. When you’re …
When it comes to icebreakers at a dinner party medical reps are never stuck. Asked their occupation, replying: “I sell drugs” is a surefire jaw dropper. Those guests not too shocked to inquire further will discover that being a Pharmaceutical or Medical Rep is to be part of a hugely competitive multi-billion pound global industry …
Glamour Magazine calls it a “side hustle” but do it right and your bit on the side could take over your entire life. Don’t worry: this isn’t naughty and it’s certainly not going to get you into trouble. It’s simply Seventies-style sales talk – and once your commission starts rolling in you’ll be spinning that …
It is a funny old world. Last year we were told the passing of the High Street was imminent. Now it turns out news of its demise was premature. Just like the “erm, did he just breathe?” confusion that surrounded the fate of Corrie bad boy, Callum Logan, it seems there’s life in our town …
The countdown has begun to the biggest shopping day of the year. Black Friday is on its way and, if industry pundits are to be believed, this year’s super-sales day is set to be the biggest yet. Predictions are that on November 27 more than £1 billion will be spent online and at the tills …
If you think working in Customer Service involves grinning at customers and quacking “Have a good day, y’all!” until your jaw aches, you’re more than a dart wide of the bullseye. You’ve also been watching too many US sitcoms! No, today the real benchmark for providing an exceptional standard of customer care has been set …
Inspiration for job mobility and career motivation can come from the most unusual of places . . . but Mars? Well, it is set to be the ultimate Call and Contact Centre. The communications base established by the first astronauts to reach the Red Planet will pave the way for future colonisation – and so …
Why would you want to work in Insurance? That’s a fair question, but one that raises another. Why do we need insurance companies? Oh dear, but that question means we need to ask: why do we need insurance at all? To answer all of these we have to travel back in time to 1688, the …
Are you an original thinker with fresh ideas who can look at a situation and spot how to shake it, shake it, shake it like a Polaroid Picture? Well, hey ya, you could be ready to put yourself in the frame for a career in Insurance. Industry pundits have predicted this business is ready for …
Top candidate in the now infamous Darwin awards, held yearly in honour of those silly sausages who come a cropper in style, must surely be the thirsty factory worker who toppled lips first into a vat of hot chocolate. Or maybe the stripper who surprised everyone from inside a birthday cake . . . a …
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