Graduate Jobs blogger Mark Towers

What should I look for in a second job?
Tuesday, 19 April 2011

It goes without saying that when looking for your second job as a graduate, you should be aiming to move onwards and upwards in nearly every respect - position, salary, responsibility these are all things that should be increasing, right? Yes...mostly.

In the large majority of cases the answer is indeed 'yes'. The occasions that it is 'no' can sometimes be a very hard decision to weigh up. It's dictated by what your end goals are, a very important term that should be lodged in the back of your head twenty-four hours a day, if it is not

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When to Start Looking for a New Job
Tuesday, 31 August 2010

On graduate-jobs.com I wrote a blog about job hopping; when it is appropriate, what impact, both negative and positive, it can have on your career and how it looks to employers. A part of this is especially relevant to you, the users of second-jobber.com - when you should start looking to leave your current job and move to another.

It won't come as a surprise that the answer to this is very situation specific. The "situation" can be a number of things but the art is reading your available options and (the harder skill) reading

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Step up to the Next Rung!
Tuesday, 29 June 2010

Remember a few years or months back when you got that first graduate job? Remember the feeling of satisfaction and pride (and maybe a little bit of fear)? Well if you are on second-jobber.com, the chances are that you are looking to experience it all over again.

However, those great feelings didn't come for free, they came because the job hunt itself was over - something that can be a nervous, adrenaline inducing experience which at times for many was demoralising, disheartening and even depressing.

Unfortunately, that's part of the package of job hunting

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