If you found Halloween frightening and bonfire night too hot to handle, you’re going to have to shape up. Whether we like to mention it or not, Christmas is coming and that means now’s the time to get your foot in the door of a career in retail. Lots of stores hire seasonal staff to […]
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They say Rome wasn’t built in a day and even in the modern world that’s true of construction projects, no matter how big or small. As a construction professional you may well work on small houses or towering skyscrapers that take time and patience – and often come with their unfair share of setbacks. Some
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Change of any kind can be daunting. Nobody knows that better than Grampa Jack when he’s forced into his winter thermals by Granny Ina. And if that change happens to be a seismic career shift it can affect your financial security, prospects and status. But anyone making the switch to teaching in Scotland from another
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Did you know shops make half their annual profits in the run-up to Christmas? Well, it’s true and right now activity is becoming frenzied. Yes, it’s a war out there, people. So if you want to land a job as a sales assistant or move up the career ladder to store manager, it pays to
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If you have the grace of a gazelle on ice or the agility of a giraffe on a bouncy castle, you’ll understand that accidents happen. The embarrassment of landing face first in a flowerbed can be forgotten . . . eventually. And even the bashes or breaks will heal along with a bruised ego. But
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When S Club 7 were still young enough to be allowed on bouncy castles, they sang a song about reaching for the stars. For a fresh generation of pop-loving school leavers it was the perfect ditty to motivate all of their aspirations for achieving a truly stellar career. Well, it turns out reaching for the
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It used to be the mantra for sales teams: the customer is always right. Well, maybe that was true in the past but in today’s market, where information on products and services is so readily available to clients, some sales professionals believe the customer is always confused. Dazzled by too much choice, they find it
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Just like Scotland trying to qualify for any tournament that involves a sphere, some sales professionals simply can’t put it in the back of the net. Achieving targets is certainly one of the biggest challenges in this sector. But if you’re truly focussed on landing one of the top sales positions on s1jobs, you’ll be
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There are plenty of skills to be learned from working in the busy retail sector. No, we’re not talking about how to refold that long-sleeved T-shirt a customer has just tossed back onto the shelf. Jobs in retail can provide you with real, transferable and much sought after talents that you can bring to just
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On Glasgow’s Byres Road something surprising has opened. It’s a bookshop. Yes, books! In a shop! Book lovers are catching up on a chat with friends over cake and coffee, while browsers work their way around the shelves, dipping into volumes before moving on to something else. Despite looking and feeling like an independent boutique,
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