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Get your career on track with the Fish4jobs & Daily Mirror Roadshow 2013

For the third year in a row, Fish4jobs and the Daily Mirror are hitting the road in our double decker bus for our annual career roadshow. We’ll be visiting Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool offering job seekers invaluable career advice, local jobs, training and apprenticeships.

Dates & locations
We'll be in the following locations each day from 10am - 4pm: 

Sunday 9th June - Queen Street (nr Churchill Way and Capital Shopping Centre), Cardiff
Monday 10th June & Tuesday 11th June - Victoria Square, Birmingham
Wednesday 12th June & Thursday 13th June - Albert Square, Manchester
Friday 14th June & Saturday 15th June - Liverpool One Shopping Centre (near John Lewis)


Why local job seekers should attend

The Fish4jobs and Daily Mirror team will be on hand delivering: 

Career workshops - Sign up for one of our career workshops on the top deck for topics including: CV and interview workshops and older and younger job seekers. To secure a place, visit the relevant location page below. Places will book up fast so book ahead to avoid disappointment. 

Local jobs - Job seekers can meet local employers and recruiters to find out about local vacancies and apply directly.

Career advice - Meet the Fish4jobs and Daily Mirror team and receive CV tips and templates, interview advice, bespoke CV and job seeking advice for older and younger job seekers.

Apprenticeships - Hear from the National Apprenticeship Service and find out about local apprenticeship vacancies from the UK’s largest provider of apprenticeships.

Training - Find out how training can enhance your career prospects and if you’re eligible for free training with learndirect.

 

Cardiff - Sunday 9th June, Queen Street (near Churchill Way & Capital Shopping Centre), 10am - 4pm

Career workshops
Sign up for one of our career workshops held on the top deck of the bus. Places will fill up fast, so book ahead to avoid disappointment. To book your place, click on the 'Register now' link: 

Time	Topic	Booking
10.30am	Top CV mistakes & how to avoid them	Register now
11.30am	Younger job seekers: How to sell yourself to employers	Register now
2.30pm	Common interview questions & how to answer them	Register now
3.30pm	Mature job seekers: Making your experience count	Register now

Local employers
Job seekers can meet local employers and recruitment agencies and find out more about their vacancies.

Birmingham, Mon 10th June & Tues 11th June, Centenary Square, 10am - 4pm

Career workshops
Sign up for one of our career workshops held on the top deck of the bus. Places will fill up fast, so book ahead to avoid disappointment. To book your place, click on the 'Register now' link: 

Time	Topic	Booking
10.30am	Top CV mistakes & how to avoid them	Register now
11.30am	Younger job seekers: How to sell yourself to employers	Register now
2.30pm	Common interview questions & how to answer them	Register now
3.30pm	Mature job seekers: Making your experience count	Register now

Local employers
Job seekers can meet local employers and recruitment agencies and find out more about their vacancies.

 

Manchester, Wed 12th June & Thurs 13th June, Albert Square, 10am - 4pm

Career workshops
Sign up for one of our career workshops held on the top deck of the bus. Places will fill up fast, so book ahead to avoid disappointment. To book your place, click on the 'Register now' link: 

Time	Topic	Booking
10.30am	Top CV mistakes & how to avoid them	Register now
11.30am	Younger job seekers: How to sell yourself to employers	Register now
2.30pm	Common interview questions & how to answer them	Register now
3.30pm	Mature job seekers: Making your experience count	Register now

Local employers
Job seekers can meet local employers and recruitment agencies and find out more about their vacancies.

 

Liverpool, Fri 14th June & Sat 15th June, Liverpool One (opposite John Lewis), 10am - 4pm

Career workshops
Sign up for one of our career workshops held on the top deck of the bus. Places will fill up fast, so book ahead to avoid disappointment. To book your place, click on the 'Register now' link: 

Time	Topic	Booking
10.30am	Top CV mistakes & how to avoid them	Register now
11.30am	Younger job seekers: How to sell yourself to employers	Register now
2.30pm	Common interview questions & how to answer them	Register now
3.30pm	Mature job seekers: Making your experience count	Register now

Local employers
Job seekers can meet local employers and recruitment agencies and find out more about their vacancies.

 

To find out more, email: roadshow@fish4.co.uk or call: 020 8600 7000. 

Fish4jobs and Daily Mirror 2012 Jobs Roadshow Round up

Highlights

• 4,000+ jobseekers had their CVs reviewed by the Fish4jobs team
• 6,500+ jobseekers received CV advice
• 4,500+ jobseekers received interview tips
• 1,000+ jobseekers received advice on changing careers

8 days, 8 cities, 790 miles! 

From Bromley to Glasgow, via Cardiff, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle, this year’s Jobs Roadshow with our free CV clinic was a huge success. We handed out over 1,500 CV templates and provided bespoke CV advice to 300 recent graduates, 250 school leavers, 250 mature jobseekers and 200 work returners, which was great because helping people find work and make themselves more employable was the aim of our Roadshow. 

Along with our in-house team of CV experts we also had Channel 4’s Fairy Jobmother Hayley Taylor with us in Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester, to meet jobseekers and provide one-to-one career consultations with the winners of our Facebook competition and others. 

"It was very helpful. She gave me lots of advice on what roles to go for and helped me with interview techniques and CV writing. CV writing has really changed in 25 years and she recommended changes I should make. Everyone from Fish4jobs was also very helpful and I will defnitely be applying for a job on Fish4jobs today", said one of the winners. 

For one job seeker in particular, his one-to-one career consultation with Hayley was a precursor to getting a job.

  

Our jobs Roadshow provided employers who had roles to fill across sectors including sales, customer service, driving, engineering and administration, the opportunity to bring their jobs to our job fair at each stop we made on the bus. It’s was great to have so many prestigious employers on the road with us including British Gas, nPower, TalkTalk, Barclays, National Express, Manchester United and the Army. 

In addition, we also had Learn Direct with us, who were on hand providing information about Government-funded courses available to the unemployed including employment and IT skills, and Lifetime Fitness who had apprenticeship programs available for 16-24 year olds.

 

We’ve had some really positive feedback which has really made the Roadshow worthwhile.

If you attended our Jobs Roadshow 2012, we’d love to hear about your experience so feel free to leave your comments below.

Fish4jobs Jobs Roadshow Finale - Day 7 & 8

After a day off to restock the bus with CV templates, and recharge our batteries we were back on the road to Newcastle and Glasgow for another 2 days of CV reviews.    

 

Day 7: Northumberland Street, Newcastle 

In Newcastle we were joined by the Army, nPower (who were hiring for customer service roles) and Hillary’s Blinds - who have opportunities available for self-employed advisors; the role involves visiting their customers in their homes, discussing their requirements and helping them find the perfect blinds. We also had British Gas, Learn Direct, Fostering Solutions and Lifetime with us, who’ve been on the road with us since we began our UK tour in Bromley on 16 June. 

If you have been finding it hard to get back into work, Learn Direct offer training in job seeking and life skills which are designed to help you put your job search back on track. 

Day 8: Buchanan Street, Glasgow 

In addition to Fostering Solutions, who have been touring the UK with us in search of foster carers, and British Gas who have customer service, sales, engineering and plumbing roles available we had Hillary’s Blinds and the Army with us. 

With scores more CV reviews and queues of job seekers, it was a very busy weekend. It was fantastic to have received so much positive feedback throughout from jobseekers, and to have made a difference to people’s job search.

 

Did you attend the Fish4jobs Roadshow and did it help you? Let us know.

Fish4jobs Jobs Roadshow 2012: Day 6 – In Manchester with The Fairy Jobmother

It’s been a fantastic 4 days with The Fairy Jobmother who’s been with us to help job seekers with interview skills, their CV and career advice. 4 days, 4 cities: Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester, and a morale boost and employability quotient spike for a significant number of job seekers. For one jobseeker in particular, it even helped him get a job the same day.

Yes, it has been a very successful 4 days with Hayley.

Today’s other source of excitement was Manchester United football club’s mascot who had come along with the recruitment team who were hiring for hospitality roles, and somehow managed to find his way into the bus driver’s seat.

Helping jobseekers get back in the driver’s seat of their career is what our team of CV experts are on the Roadshow to do, and it felt good to see that we had been able to make a difference.

In addition to our CV Clinic and the Fairy Jobmother, we also had Learn Direct with us who were there to help get job seekers back into work by providing them with opportunities to gain the skills they need to improve their employability. To find out what Learn Direct have on offer, watch their latest video here

 

We also had jobs spanning hospitality, sales, customer service, engineering, care and more, at our jobs fair today, courtesy of British Gas – who have been a fantastic fixture at each of our job fairs this year – Manchester United, Unicom, Fostering Solutions and Meridian Business Support.

A lot of them will be going on to Newcastle and Glasgow with us this weekend so if you haven’t been able to make it to our jobs bus yet, come see us at Northumberland Street in Newcastle on Saturday or Buchanan Street in Glasgow on Sunday.

Hope to see you there. 

Fish4jobs Jobs Roadshow 2012: Day 5 - In Liverpool with The Fairy Jobmother

Day 5 for us, Day 3 for The Fairy Jobmother Hayley Taylor and yet another opportunity for job seekers to meet her and get a one-to-one career consultation on board the Fish4jobs bus. Among the lucky ones who had the opportunity to have a 45 minute session with Hayley was the winner of the competition we ran on Facebook to WIN a One-to-One Career Consultation with her. To ensure that you don’t miss out on career wise competitions like these, LIKE us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @Fish4jobs 

"It was very helpful. She gave me lots of advice on what roles to go for and helped me with interview techniques and CV writing. CV writing has really changed in 25 years and she recommended changes I should make. Everyone from Fish4jobs was also very helpful and I will definitely be applying for a job on Fish4jobs today"

- Competition winner 

 

We also had our team of CV experts on board providing CV reviews for job seekers and other team members outside helping jobseekers with career advice and tips on how to make the most of your job search on Fish4jobs.

If you couldn’t make it to our Roadshow and need help with your CV or career advice, visit our blog and watch Hayley’s CV, Interview and Career Q&A videos on YouTube

Today we had lots of employers and training providers with us so there was a constant stream of jobseekers making there way to our bus at Liverpool One.  

We also had Lifetime Training with us, who offer government funded NVQ Training courses for aspiring Fitness Instructors aged 16 – 24 years.

Jobs available at our road show today ranged from IT, Engineering and Communications to Sales, Customer Service and Care, with big brands like TalkTalk and British Gas.

To view full details of employers and training providers joining us on our Roadshow this year, click here

With over a hundred CV reviews done today and a gap bridged between so many employers and the types of candidate they’re looking for, and between dejection and hope for job seekers it’s been another fulfilling day on the road for us at Fish4jobs. 

Next Stop: Manchester, the last stop for The Fairy Jobmother this year. 

Don’t forget to bring a printed copy of your CV to Albert Square if you’d like a free CV review.

Fish4jobs Jobs Roadshow 2012: Day 4 - In Leeds with The Fairy Jobmother

19 June 2012

Loaded – literally – with CV templates, career advice cheat sheets for the discerning job seeker and of course our CV experts running the CV Clinic in the bus, we pulled up at Briggate in Leeds. Lots more CV reviews, many more jobseekers, career sessions with Hayley Taylor and some of our top employers and training providers on hand. 

We had some big names hiring, and opportunities for free CV reviews and career advice. There were a number of graduates looking for jobs, and in need of CV advice. Our CV Clinic has had a constant flow of jobseekers from 10am to 6pm on each day of the Roadshow so far. We were also visited by a number of jobseekers in search of customer service jobs, so it was great to have British Gas with us who are currently hiring for customer services and customer sales roles - among others. 

They’ll be with us on the road all the way to Glasgow so if you’re looking for a job in customer service, sales or engineering, do come meet them with a copy of your CV.

If you can’t make it to the Roadshow and need help getting your CV in shape for the Top Job before you upload it on to Fish4jobs so you get head hunted, download our General CV Template or browse our sector specific CV templates here, and read our Most Common CV Mistakes to make sure you don’t make those when redoing your CV. 

We also had Learn Direct with us, who provide training courses to jobseekers to help them get back in to work. They have centres across the UK and offer qualifications not only in traditional subjects like Maths, English, Computers and IT, but also provide courses that will equip you with ‘Job Seeking Skills’, ‘Life Skills’ and ‘Business and Job Specific Skills’. To find out more about what Learn Direct are offering on the Fish4jobs Roadshow, watch their latest video on our roadshow here 

Next Stop: Liverpool One, Liverpool.

 

See you there?  

 

 

Fish4jobs Jobs Roadshow 2012: Day 3 - In Birmingham with The Fairy Jobmother

18 June 2012

Fish4jobs Hayley Taylor joins us in Birmingham…. 

200 CV reviews and many miles later we pulled into Centenary Square in Birmingham. Today’s main attraction in Birmingham – aside from a massive orange mobile CV clinic, was Channel 4’s Fairy Jobmother, who’ll be with us on the road today until Thursday 21 June….

The Fish4jobs Roadshow offers job seekers the opportunity to meet Channel 4’s Fairy Jobmother Hayley Taylor for career advice, but also training providers and employers. Today we were joined by Learn Direct - enthusiastic as ever to help job seekers get the skills they need to get back into work - British Gas and Fostering Solutions, all of whom have been with us since we started out in Bromley last Saturday. 

At today’s job fair we were also joined by National Express, with driving jobs, yet another of the many sectors that we specialise in on Fish4jobs; Hillary’s Blinds, who were have self employed opportunities available; and with Lifetime Training who have apprenticeship programs available for aspiring fitness instructors aged 16-24 years.  

With jobseekers queuing up from 9am for a CV review at our free CV Clinic, and career consultations with Channel 4’s Fairy Jobmother, it was yet another productive day. Hayley Taylor joins us in 4 cities this year and will be holding one-to-one sessions with jobseekers to help them with interview skills and their CV. 

If you didn’t get a chance to meet Hayley in Birmingham today, you can watch all her career Q&A videos here. Whether you’re looking for Interview and CV advice, job hunting tips, advice on finding work post redundancy, changing careers, searching and applying for jobs or you’re a mature jobseeker looking to get back into work or find a new job, we've got the answers to help you get ahead.

Another employer on the road with us today was Meridian Business Support, who seemed to have found some potential candidates at today’s job fair, and had a good time all in all as Jo @Jilee_Jo tweeted:

@fish4jobs looking forward to your roadshow in Manchester tomorrow, Birmingham on Monday was great fun!

@fish4jobs highlight was meeting so many great people, we didn't stop all day and the sun was shining!

@fish4jobs we have lots of commercial/office roles to fill so it was a great opportunity to see so many candidates face to face!

 

Follow us on Twitter for the latest #Fish4jobs #Roadshow updates, jobs, career advice and more

 

Meridian Business Support is back on the road with us in 3 days, so come see them at Albert Square in Manchester on 21 June 2012.

 

Next Stop: Briggate, Leeds. Come see us there tomorrow with a printed copy of your CV if you’d like a free CV review or a career consultation with Channel 4’s Fairy Jobmother.

 

Fish4jobs Jobs Roadshow 2012: Day 2 - Churchill Way, Cardiff

17 June 2012

Another busy day for us, with 80+ CV Reviews and a constant flow of job seekers with career queries and questions about how to find a job; and equally busy for the employers and training providers joining us on our Jobs Roadshow today which included: the Army, British Gas and Fostering Solutions.

One of the best things about our Jobs Roadshow is that as a a job seeker you have the opportunity to get a professional CV review for free, which is the first step towards getting the job you want.

For many jobseekers, it’s not a case of not having the right skills and experience but not presenting your skills and experience effectively on your CV.

Your CV should always include a personal profile that highlights your strengths and experience. If you're a graduate, your education should come at the beginning of your CV.

Here’s an example of a Graduate CV  to help you get started.

For a General CV Template  click here or browse our collection of CV templates here. 

Also read our Most Common CV Mistakes  

 

 Did you attend our Jobs Roadshow in Cardiff? Did you get a CV review? Tell us about it. 

Fish4jobs Jobs Roadshow 2012: Day 1 - Bromley, Market Square

16 June 2012

After strategic manoeuvring of our big orange double decker bus through the market we reached our designated parking spot for the day and set up shop with British Gas, PayDay Express/TheMoneyShop, Fostering Solutions and Lifetime Fitness, who were all on the lookout for new recruits. 

The aim of our Roadshow is to provide jobseekers with access to free CV and career advice, employers and training providers - so they can meet them face-to-face and ask questions and have the opportunity to get a free fifteen minute CV review with one of our CV experts.  Employers can meet potential candidates for the roles they’re looking to fill. 

Our job fairs are not aimed at any particular age group, level of experience or type of job seeker and attendees were 16 – 50+, encompassing school leavers, students looking for summer jobs and part-time jobs, career changers, mature job seekers and returners to work (such as those who had been full time carers or made redundant). 

With over one hundred CVs reviewed and turned around and career advice provided to thousands of jobseekers, and hundreds having had the chance to find out more about becoming a Foster Carer, a Fitness Instructor, or an employee at British Gas or PayDay Express/TheMoneyShop, it was a successful day. 

For British Gas, who are currently hiring for Sales, Customer Service and Engineering, the queue kept growing, which was great because there were a large number of high calibre professionals that they met. In fact, they even found a potential candidate for both a white goods engineer position which they said is a tough one to fill, and a skilled plumber which again they said is proving to be a skill set in short supply. 

For the PayDay Express/MoneyShop, who left with 20+ applications and dozens of CVs for their roles, which included Collections Agents, Telesales Agents and Outbound Customer Service Agents, it was just as productive. 

We also had Fostering Solutions with us who were looking for Foster Carers for children and seems to have had a significant amount of interest in this opportunity. To be a foster carer, you must be over 21 and under 65, and have a spare room in your home. Once you sign on, you will have a CRB check and will go through an assessment period so they can determine whether your domestic situation is stable and suitable for healthy up bringing of a child. The children who require fostering come from broken homes and have often been subjected to hostile domestic conditions so while it can be emotionally challenging, it is also very rewarding. It also gives you the opportunity to work from home. 

Lifetime Fitness were also there to sign up fitness instructor and personal trainer hopefuls for their training program for sixteen to twenty four year olds - and there certainly seemed to be no dearth of school leavers looking for a career in fitness. Lifetime Fitness offer NVQ training courses. Lifetime Fitness will be at all locations so do come by if you’d like to find out more about becoming a fitness instructor and personal trainer. If you can’t make it, look out for our next post where we’ll have more information about the courses and career opportunities available once you’ve completed your training at Lifetime Fitness.

 

Next stop: Churchill Way, Cardiff.

 

Next weekend: Newcastle/Glasgow

 

Were you at our Jobs Roadshow in Bromley? Did you get a CV review? Who did you meet? Feel free to leave your comments below. 

 

Gain the skills to get ahead in life with Learn Direct

Learn Direct have helped more than 3.5m people improve their skills since 2000 and 93% of their learners say it's given them the skills to help them in their future working life. With their learners now earning £2,240 more on average than what they were before learning with Learn Direct, it's a good way to put your career back on track and climb up the ladder, and we're giving you the opportunity to meet them face to face to find out more about their online courses at our Jobs Roadshow 2012. 

Why do an online course at Learn Direct? 

Their online courses below all lead to nationally recognised qualifications in English, maths, IT and job seeking skills, wich will help you get back into work and get ahead in your career: 

• IT qualifications cover using the internet, email and popular Microsoft Office software packages.
• Vocational qualifications in business and job specific skills like business and administration, retail, customer service, team leading and health and social care.
• Job seeking qualification helps you with creating a CV, filling in application forms and interview skills.
• Life skills qualification shows you about managing your money, parenting skills and planning your time.

You can learn in one of our centres or from home or work, wherever you have access to the internet. Thanks to government funding, your courses will most likely be FREE: especially if you're unemployed and on active benefits. If you're employed and you've got no qualifications, then your qualifications could still be free. We'll confirm this with you before you start learning with us.

If you'd like to meet them to find out more, join us on our jobs roadshow at one of the following locations:

• Saturday 16th June:  Market Square, Bromley, Greater London

• Monday 18th June: Centenary Square, Birmingham

• Tuesday 19th June: Briggate, Leeds

•  Wednesday 20th June: Liverpool One, Liverpool

•  Thursday 21st June: Albert Square, Manchester

•  Saturday 23rd June: Northumberland St, Newcastle

 

See you in____ ?