I’ve always felt that helping someone get a job was the best thing you could do for them.  Lots of things go into this: teaching interview skills, helping them structure resumes to sell them more effectively, getting them up to speed on a new software package that’s The Hot Thing, providing internship opportunities, even teaching [...]

image by Simon Howden Being unemployed can be a low point in many people’s lives, and it is something that almost all of us will all experience at some time. However, the way you handle being unemployed can teach you a number of lessons about yourself, your attitude towards life, and your relationship with money. [...]

How effective is Twitter for finding a job? Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images When Guardian Careers set me the Twitter Job Challenge, I admit that I had my doubts. Though I use it frequently to search for jobs, I couldn’t imagine that I’d be all that successful in actually getting a job through Twitter alone. I [...]

Want to be involved in creating games which are popular across the world? Photograph: Oliver Berg/AFP/Getty Images Last month the games industry celebrated the closest thing it has to an Oscars ceremony – the GAME British Academy Awards. As you may expect, gamers’ favourites and familiar names such as Heavy Rain, Mass Effect and Call [...]