Welcome to the Candidate Centre where you can find useful advice, hints and tips to help you suceed in finding your first job, a new job or changing careers.

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General careers advice

You need to assess where you are today before you can decide where you want to take your career in the future. You may have been coasting or you may be bored to death with your current job. Today is the day when you can make new choices and perhaps even make a leap into a totally different career direction. You must look positively to the future as the decisions you make now will affect the rest of your life.

You should not rush into your next job. You need to consider carefully all the implications of the decisions which you make. Things to consider include which job you would like to pursue, which sort of company you would like to work for, what remuneration (pay and benefits) you require, the working environment, how you match the criteria for the job, and how the job matches your career expectations.

Setting specific career objectives

Your main aim may be simply to find a new and rewarding job. But it would also be a good idea at this time to evaluate all your aims in life, both careers-related and personal. To achieve some of your objectives you may need to set yourself a number of intermediate objectives. You should regularly re-evaluate your objectives (both personal and career-related), as they will almost certainly change over time.

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