Career Skills for Job Seekers

In today’s competitive market place – ensuring you are armed with the tools to succeed is essential.

At Hays we help thousands of people find work every year and we know that finding a job is becoming harder and more complex. There are on average 50 applications for each vacancy, CVs are reviewed for only 8 seconds and interview techniques are constantly evolving.

Hays Career Skills gives you access to interactive training modules that have been developed with you in mind – giving jobseekers the skills and knowledge needed to succeed. Covering the basics such as writing cover letters and CVs to more in-depth interview tips and techniques such as reading body language, assessment centres and how to excel in a competency based interview.

It is for everyone. Whether you’re a new graduate or an experienced professional the skills needed to find a new job are the same.

It will help those that are new to the world of work acquire the skills they need and for the more experienced it ensure that you’re up-to-date with the latest methods and techniques.

At Hays we have been helping people find work for over 50 years and have first hand experience of what’s needed for a successful job search.

Using this experience and knowledge we have focused on the most important areas and working with our training team to deliver modules in a range of learning styles and methods to give you, the user, the best and most effective learning experience.

There is a wealth of free information on the internet from CV templates to mock interview questions.

Many which consist of word documents, pdfs and other static forms of learning. How Hays Career Skills differs is in not only the range and depth of information but in the delivery. With 10 modules covering all aspects of job hunting from beginning to end – there is no need to use various sources and websites as all the information is in one place. The combination of videos, interactive sessions and assessments means you are more engaged in the learning process – so you’ll learn in a quicker, easier and hopefully more enjoyable way than reading pages and pages of text.