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You are probably aware that the UK Government announces changes to the country’s laws relating to employment, every year. In 2012, look out for changes and updates in the following areas. You will need to nbe informed, because one or more aspects of these changes is likely to have some effect on individual careers.

• Tribunal procedure
• Unfair dismissal
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Sick Pay
• Redundancy payments

Get more information on the above and other possible impending changes to employment law.

Here is the right kind of information for you to look up and participate in several career-related events -

“Christmas temp drive - how to turn your seasonal job into CV gold?” - live Q&A from Guardian Careers on Tuesday 8 November, 1pm – 4pm.

Liverpool Science and Technology Careers Fair -Thursday 10th November from 3pm – 6.30pm.

Volunteering Fair hosted by University of Leicester at Queens Hall, Percy Gee Building (Students Union) on 17 November, 2011 from 12:00 pm to 03:00 pm.

Here is an opportunity for you to attend the Liverpool Graduate Careers Festival at St George’s Hall on Wednesday 12 October 2011, 10.30am to 3.30pm. Check out the details of the job fair at Liverpool Graduate Careers Festival 2011 and see if you are qualified to attend the event.

There is yet another job fair event round the corner. Look up Teesside University Careers Fair that is scheduled for Friday 04 November 2011, between 10.00am and 3.00pm at Main Hall and Sports Hall, Brittan Building for Sport and Well-being.

Look out for the UK’s biggest diversity careers event. The event is scheduled to be held on 21st October 2011. Over a hundred of the UK’s most influential employers are exhibiting at this year’s Diversity Careers Show Friday at the New Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden.

Here are the complete details –

• Date – Friday 21st October 2011 (10am-5pm)
• Venue – Grand Connaught Rooms, 61-65 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5DA

The event is pegged as the UK’s biggest diversity specific careers event. At the show, undergraduates, graduates and other jobseekers from all over the country will be able to access well-known recruiters. The recruiters’ list includes both Public Sector/NGO recruiters and Corporates. You can look up the latest exhibitors at the Diversity Careers Event.

What’s more – this is a free event for all job and internship seekers. The candidates will be able to participate in and benefit from CV Clinics, Seminars and Training, Networking sessions as well as an exclusive student-only zone.

Read experts’ responses to several queries from fresh graduates. The experts include a clinical psychologist, career coaches ad recruitment consultants.

Access Graduate jobs: advice from the experts. These are the questions that have been answered.

• How do I clean up my online profile and make it work for me?
• I’m getting nowhere with online job boards – where else can I look?
• Should I do an unpaid internship?
• How do I write a speculative letter?
• How do I write a CV?
• How do I make an impression at an interview?
• What benefits can I claim if I can’t get a job?
• How do I deal with the post-university blues?

Did you know that graduate career fairs form a great source and resource for fresh graduates to find suitable employment? It is possible for you to land a job in the first fair you attend, and if not remember that you have anyway taken the first, and right step towards finding your target job eventually.

It’s a highly competitive scenario these days, and finding a suitable graduate placement can be difficult. That’s why such fairs turn out to be one of the better ways of job-hunting. At the fair, you will encounter plenty of potential employers. This is also the right opportunity for you to market yourself as the right candidate.

So whether you are yet to complete your course, or you are ready to launch your career, you’ll do well to attend a career fair well-prepared. Here’s where you can find a complete listings of forthcoming graduate fairs in the UK.

The next edition off London Graduate Recruitment Fair will be on Tuesday 18 October 2011 at the Business Design Centre, London. You will get details here.

So you have the ‘right’ degree in hand. What next? Unless specifically stated many companies prefer candidates who have some work experience related to the job applied for. To every fresh graduate, the question is always at the tip of the tongue to ask, unless I get a job, how will I get work experience? Work experience can also help a lot if you are yet to decide on a career choice.

Thankfully there are a few establishments who offer work experience placements to fresh, raw graduates. Work experience placements also called internships, and are usually paid positions. It is also possible for you to set aside your ambitions of immediate income and instead work as a volunteer in a suitable organization.

Look up some useful tips on work experience.

The BBC is a vast organization, and offers work experience placements in a score specializations. You can search and apply for these opportunities here.

You will find this event quite useful – visit the National Work Placement Exhibition at NEC Birmingham on 27 Oct 2011.

Get yourself a free copy of The Student Guide to Work Placements.

Guardian Careers has initiated Guardian Careers update, a weekly newsletter.

The useful email update is slated to include career news and advice, with listings of the latest and most sought after jobs. You will benefit additionally from the information on The Guardian Careers’ live Q&As through which you can access several panels of industry experts.

If you are new to the newspaper groups’ online careers service, look up Guardian Careers, where you will find Q&As every week, new blogs and advice features daily, as well as comments and questions posted continuously in the forum.

Sign up for the weekly newsletter, after choosing the sectors and topics of interest to you. Once you sign up, you automatically become eligible to receive invites to events, seminars and meet-ups.

At the beginning of your career, you will be attending one or more interviews for entering an institute or a workplace. Since you will be making a lot of presentations during the tenure of your studies and your job, it goes without saying that you can never be over-prepared. Here are some excellent resources for you to use that will help you prepare well to face a barrage of questions from even the most formidable kind of interview panel.

Where is the line between sounding confident and relaxed, and over-rehearsed? In an interview where should you keep your hands? Get help on such issues and plenty of other answers on preparing for your ’20-minute opportunity’ from people who have been there, done that.

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Whether you have spent a few days, months, or years at a job, it is possible that you feel somewhat lost at work, and further fell the pangs for a change. Depending on the length of time you have completed, the reasons for your feelings will be varied.

If you feel out of place in a new job, it’s most likely a question of initial tenterhooks. The most logical solution would be to give yourself more time, take more efforts at understanding the new set-up, new colleagues, the surroundings and the general office ambience  better, and not give in to a career change decision at a weak moment. A few weeks should suffice to help in re-adjusting yourself. If after a few months you still feel inadequate or even unhappy, it is probably time to re-do and float your resume again! Make sure that you give yourself sufficient challenges, and that you project a sunny outlook always. Read more…