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Practical advice for graduates starting out, professionals on the move, and businesses looking to hire well. Written by the Bridgewater team.
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Mastering Time Management in Your First Graduate Job
Starting your first graduate job is a huge milestone – congratulations! It marks the beginning of your professional journey and brings with it exciting challenges, new responsibilities, and a steep learning curve. One of the…
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How to Develop Graduate Talent to Become Top Performers
Whatever industry you operate in, attracting and developing good graduate talent should be a priority for your business. Millennials and Generation Z already make up more than a third of the global workforce and over the next decade, that figure is set to rise to 58%. Hiring and developing top graduate talent now is a…
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What All Graduates Should be Looking for in their First Career Opportunity
Making it to the end of university and achieving your degree is a great feeling and something to celebrate. However, deciding what comes next is a new challenge that many graduates find daunting. As you enter the real world of work, there are hundreds of different industries, locations and graduate opportunities to choose from. If…
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How to Discreetly Job Search While Employed
Looking for a new job without jeopardising your current one is a tricky situation that many job seekers find themselves in. In order to make a smooth transition from one position to the next, it is most ideal for you to be in a job whilst seeking other employment. The good news is that searching…
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How Wholesalers Can Enhance Home Office Environments
Even as we ease out of what we hope will be our last lockdown, it’s clear that working from home is the new normal for many. While at the start of the pandemic, workers were commandeering a corner of the kitchen table and trying to adapt to the new work from home regime, many have…
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What to Do About Graduating With a 2.2 Degree
It’s widely considered by graduates that a 2.2 classification means that your entire university degree has been a massive waste of time and money. Receiving the 2.2 “grade of doom” can feel like all the doors to great graduate careers are closing in your face. But this really isn’t the case and if you’re in…
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5 Ways You Should Optimise Your LinkedIn Profile for Job Opportunities
If you’re looking for a job or are open to hearing about potential opportunities, you should ensure that your LinkedIn is optimised to grab the attention of recruiters. The Undercover Recruiter reports that 97% of all HR and staffing professionals use LinkedIn in their recruiting efforts. This gives job seekers and professionals an excellent chance…
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Why Your Hiring Strategy Should Focus More on Potential than Experience
When you’re looking to hire new talent, you’ll probably have a good idea about the type of person that will fit into your team well. In an ideal world, that candidate might have all the skills required for the job, relevant experience in a similar role and a personality that would fit perfectly with the…
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REVEALED: The Pros and Cons of Working From Home
Remote working has been growing in popularity for a number of years, however, no one would have foreseen how quickly it was to become our “new normal”. With social distancing measures being introduced and working from home being encouraged wherever possible, many office workers made the move to remote working last year and are continuing…
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The Rise of Digital Installation in the Heating, Ventilation and Plumbing Industry
Over the years, the HVAC industry has, on the whole, remained traditional while taking small progressive steps as opposed to big leaps forward. However, the COVID-19 pandemic had a big impact on the industry and acted as a cyber-accelerant for both manufacturers and installers who had to find a new way to share knowledge and…