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July 2024

  • Graduates throw their caps in the air at Birmingham University, UK, after the graduation ceremony.

    UK graduates: tell us how your job hunt has been going

    We’d like to hear from recent UK graduates how it has been to find their first graduate roles after university

April 2024

  • Lucy Kellaway, with short hair and wearing a watch and a necklace with round beads under a suit jacket, smiles as she holds a mug in front of a bookcase

    ‘Almost beyond belief’: axing of teacher recruitment scheme will worsen crisis, say critics

    The government’s scrapping of the Now Teach scheme, which has overdelivered on targets for older workers, has sparked an outcry

March 2024

  • A composite of three teenagers facing away with a Barking and Dagenham sign in the background

    ‘You have to stand out’: six Dagenham teenagers on their future prospects

    Final year students from Goresbrook school talk about housing, higher education and social media – as well as hopes and fears

November 2023

  • Painting: The Frankland Sisters (1795) by John Hoppner.

    Leading questions
    My sister is getting opportunities I feel I missed. How do I grieve my past, but support her?

    Beware of grass is always greener thinking, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Instead, reflect on what has stopped you before and what is possible now

October 2023

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    Looking for that plum job? Choose your boss carefully and know your strengths

    Torsten Bell
    Moving a good manager to lead a team benefits employees and company alike, research finds. Just look at Spurs...
  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    Revenge of the nerds is a fantasy, it’s the jocks who have more successful careers

    Torsten Bell
    Athletes have social skills that take them far in the world of business and finance, a study of US Ivy League alumni finds
  • Anita Chaudhuri

    Like Taylor Swift, millions of us dream of packing in the day job. But where do we find our Plan B?

    Anita Chaudhuri
    Everyone wants to turn their passion into their profession – or at least a profitable side-hustle. I certainly did. But what if AI can do it better or more cheaply?

September 2023

  • Girl with long dark-reddish hair wearing pale woollen hat looking through window blinds

    Young people ditching ambitions over UK cost of living crisis, research finds

  • students books

    What you ‘do’ in life is a decision you might make more than once. It’s OK not to know

    Emma Wilkins

August 2023

  • Yoga teacher taking yoga class in park

    In choosing a career path, my ‘potential’ has started to feel like a curse

    Jeremy Moineau
    When I was a kid, I was told I could become anything I wanted. Now I’m left with very few career options outside auditioning for reality television

May 2023

  • Silhouette figures on Brighton seafront in East Sussex, UK.

    Young people in the UK: tell us why you decided against university

  • FILE - The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying the ChatGPT home screen, March 17, 2023, in Boston. Chinese police said they recently detained a ChatGPT user for allegedly using the AI-powered chatbot to create a fake news story about a nonexistent train crash. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

    Young people in the UK: is AI affecting your career choices?

March 2023

  • Jenny Beavan, costume designer. Photo by Linda Nylind. 8/2/2023.

    Weekend
    Oscar-winning designer Jenny Beavan, Gen Z’s ‘tech shame’, and Katy Wix’s near-fatal and life-changing crash – podcast

    Costume designer Jenny Beavan reveals why fashion is usually the last thing on her mind, writer Alaina Demopoulos dismantles the misconception that Gen Z are tech-savvy, and actor Katy Wix recalls the near-death experience that changed her relationship with her father forever

February 2023

  • Students graduating

    Students should be told of university course job prospects, says commission

    Social Mobility Commission says students should be informed of ‘earnings implications’ of course choices

January 2023

  • Nicola Garrard in 2002.

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: three schoolboy truants convinced me to become a teacher

    When I took a job at a London comprehensive in a deprived area, I never realised how much I’d learn from the students about racism, creativity – and Shakespeare
  • School still life: books, apple, and alphabet blocks.

    Brief letters
    Vital careers advice to six-year-old me

    Brief letters: Youthful ambition | Past lives of rough sleepers | Bread Sauce Preservation Society | Late Christmas card | Ski holiday irony
  • Children eat lunch at Greenacres primary academy in Oldham, Greater Manchester

    Children as young as five in England target of new careers programme

    Scheme will teach primary pupils about jobs, training and skills

December 2022

  • Work by Ford Madox Brown (1852)

    Leading questions
    How do I figure out what to do with my professional life? Will I always feel helpless and bored?

  • Two silk screen workers setting up the printing table.

    The Guardian view on apprenticeships: time to learn from past mistakes

September 2022

  • Left: Luisa Tulouna Right: Wifi Tribe's Diego Bejarano-Gerke

    Work therapy: can a cyber-commuter prepare a retail employee for life as a digital nomad?

    Luisa Tulouna works at a market but wants to immerse herself in a culture she loves. Remote work is Diego Bejarano Gerke’s day job. In their session he tells her how to stop her dream becoming a logistical nightmare
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