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Resume & Cover Letter
The Ultimate Resume Checklist to Land That Job in 2026
Ensure your resume is polished, professional, and ready to impress recruiters with our comprehensive resume checklist.
Apr 18, 2026
Resume & Cover Letter
9 Features That Make Novorésumé Stand Out in 2026
Learn what makes Novorésumé stand out from other resume builders and why it works so well to get you hired.
Apr 18, 2026
Career Advice
Go to university! No, get a trade! How can young people survive when all the paths are landmined?
Is it to be a degree and heavy debt when graduate jobs are shrinking? Or forgoing a degree, knowing society still worships them? Confused, angry: who wouldn’t be
Apr 18, 2026
Career Advice
UK job vacancies ‘fall to lowest level since pandemic’
Advertised roles dropped 3% last month to 695,000 – first dip below 700,000 since January 2021, job site Adzuna says
Apr 18, 2026
Career Advice
Do you have a ‘competence hangover’?
It’s what happens when people, especially women, are overworked and underappreciated. Time for all the incompetent slackers to step up, writes Emma Beddington
Apr 18, 2026
Career Advice
‘The anxieties just lift’: why domestic abuse refuges are turning to female tradespeople
With construction overwhelmingly male, Refuge says tradeswomen help survivors of abuse feel safer
Apr 18, 2026
Career Advice
Decline in remote jobs risks shutting disabled people out of work, study finds
Research project warns fall in homeworking roles could undermine efforts to reduce unemployment
Apr 18, 2026
Career Advice
Should you stay or go? 5 factors to consider before quitting your job
Is it time to quit? Explore 5 essential factors to help you decide whether to stay or go in the 2026 job market.
Apr 5, 2026
Career Advice
The brutal hunt for low-paid work: ‘It’s like The Hunger Games – but for a job folding clothes’
It used to be fairly easy to get work that paid at or around the minimum wage. But with a shrinking number of positions come ever more hoops to jump through, from personality tests, to trial shifts, to towers constructed of marshmallows<br>
Apr 18, 2026
Career Advice
‘It’s soul-crushing’: young people battle to find any work in bleak jobs market
Chair of UK government review says dramatic changes in labour market risks putting ‘a generation on the scrapheap’
Apr 18, 2026
Career Advice
Even amid rising economic uncertainty, now is not the time to hug your job
In a rapidly changing job market, it’s not necessarily good for workers to cling to their current employment
Apr 18, 2026
Career Advice
UK’s gender pay gap ‘won’t close for 30 years’ at current rates
Trades Union Congress says women have worked a month and a half for nothing this year and legislation is needed
Apr 18, 2026