The Ultimate Gap Year Guide: Are You Ready to See the World?

Before uni, right after uni, years after uni; it doesn’t matter when you take your gap year, it’s guaranteed to be the best…

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Essentials for Success: Winning Negotiation Skills and Techniques

What is negotiation? For many, the word will strike up images of wheeler-dealers haggling over second-hand cars or perhaps business bigwigs signing huge…

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Top 10 Key Skills for Any Job: What Employers Want

Have you got the skills that employers are looking for? If you’re on the hunt for a job, there are certain skills and…

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How to Start a Cover Letter that Grabs Employers’ Attention

This article will change your entire LIFE! OK… That might be overselling it a little bit, but this proves a good point. If…

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Lighting Controls: Say Goodbye to the Light Switch

There’s plenty going on in the lighting industry at the moment as with rapid changes taking place to keep up with and incorporate…

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A Complete Guide to Writing Your Letter of Resignation

Writing a letter of resignation is rarely easy whatever your reasons for leaving your current job. You’ll want to get your formal resignation…

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Will the Rise in Crime Demand More from the Security Systems Market?

Winter is definitely here which means longer nights and more opportunity for domestic burglaries and vehicle theft to take place under the cover…

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Smart Lighting: Get Switched On

Our Recruitment Manager, James Downing, explores how smart lighting is having an impact on the electrical wholesale market. Smart technology is weaving its…

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Interview Presentation Tips: How to Wow Your Interviewer

Generally speaking, attending a job interview doesn’t tend to be at the top of anyone’s ‘Favourite Activities’ list. The effort required, nerves and…

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A New Generation of Switches and Sockets: Stay Ahead of the Game

The days of plain white switches and sockets are numbered as consumers demand their electrical components to by stylish and in-line with “the…

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Questions to Ask Yourself Before an Interview: What Are My Strengths?

You’re unlikely to make it to the end of any job interview without the interviewer asking you about your strengths. However, even if…

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How to Win the Loyalty of Your Customers

How many customers do you see flitting between different electrical wholesalers always chasing the best deal or price? Where there are plenty of…

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Why Ventilation is More Important Than Ever

Our Recruitment Manager, James Downing, shares his insights into the current ventilation market. Electrical wholesalers and installers have seen a big shift in…

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The Hardest Sell of All: Top Sales Interview Tips

Searching for a new job is never an easy task. With cover letters, CVs and applications galore, securing your next opportunity takes time…

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How to Answer That Weaknesses Question in an Interview

When preparing yourself for a job interview, there are a number of common interview questions that you’ll want to think about. Perhaps the…

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Essential Team Leader Skills for Management Success

For some, progression to management is a super quick process whereas, for others, it takes years of hard work. Wherever you are in…

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Insider Tips: Questions to Ask at the End of an Interview

Interviews are at the heart of what we do here at Bridgewater. Every day we are interviewing and getting to know different candidates.…

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Travelling After Uni – Torn Between Work and a Gap Year?

Ahhh, graduating from university. The soothing wave of relief you feel once uni is done and dusted is unlike anything you’ve ever felt…

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How to Make the Most of Your Final Year at University

We’re guessing that those first couple of years at university flew by and that final, all-important year has arrived far too fast. It’s…

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Top 100 Graduate Employers: The Real Truth

Every year The Times publishes their Top 100 Graduate Employers Guide. Their 2016-2017 guide comes as a result of interviewing over 18,000 final…

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