How to start looking for work

Aged 18-24 and looking for work? Here are our top tips on how to kick-start (or restart) your career and find a job you love.

Where does jobseeking stress come from? And if we can’t avoid it, how can we harness it, and use it to our advantage? Here are our top tips.

To make sure you’re highlighting your attributes as well as your skills, here are five personal qualities most valued by employers.

Just about to start a new role, and looking for some words of wisdom? Here are 18 of our favourite inspirational new job quotes.

To help you take the process one step at a time, here are some of our top tips on how to manage your mental health whilst looking for work.

Here are five fundamentals of career success, courtesy of James Reed’s brand new book, Life’s Work: 12 Proven Ways to Fast Track Your Career.

We spoke to The International Career Institute (ICI), an independent provider of over 50 distance learning courses, to find out their top tips on how to break into the beauty industry.

Ready to go back to work? We spoke to Deloitte, the largest professional services network in the world, to find out how to nail your interview after a career break.

When it comes to forensic linguistics, words are everything. To give you a glimpse into the life of a modern day Sherlock (of the language world), here’s everything you need to know about getting a career in forensic linguistics:

Need to earn while you learn? A part-time job could be for you. To make sure you’re looking in the right places, here are five of the best part-time jobs for students:

We’ve already covered what type of job to look for. Here are our tops for getting your job search started:

As an older jobseeker, you might feel like the odds are stacked against you. We’ve already covered five of the best jobs for older people, but here’s how to find work as an older jobseeker.

Stuggling to find career advice for older jobseekers? In this month’s column, James gives his top tips on how to find a new career at 50…

Sometimes finding the best fit requires a little legwork. To help you get started, here are our top tips on how to research company before you apply.

Here’s a brief guide of how to search for jobs, and some of our top tips to make sure your results are as relevant as possible.

With hundreds of thousands of jobs from some of the UK’s biggest brands on reed.co.uk right now, there’s no better place to get going. Here are five reasons to register with reed.co.uk.

Think size doesn’t matter? Think again. To help you decide what type of company would best suit you, here are a few potential advantages and disadvantages of working for big and small companies:

If you think branding is just for businesses, think again. Not sure what it’s all about? Here’s everything you need to know about personal branding:

Looking to enter a brand new industry, but not sure where to start? In this month’s column, James gives his advice on how to switch careers.

To make sure you’re making the most out of the clues they could give you, here’s our guide on how using job descriptions effectively could help land your dream role: 

Whether you’re new to job seeking, or you’re looking for a career change, deciding what job to look for can be tough. Here are some of our top tips.

Can’t get the job you want? To make sure you’re showing recruiters what you can really do, here are eight ways you’re selling yourself short in your job search (and our advice on how to turn it around):

When it comes to jobseeking, it can seem like everyone is an expert. To help you see what you shouldn’t do, here are seven terrible pieces of advice you could give to a jobseeker:

Ok, so you know what type of job you’re looking for. Our guide will help you find it, making sure you’ve considered all the options.