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Planes, Trains & Automobiles (Or None of the Above)

In 2011 a study was carried out by The Guardian working in tandem with The Office for National Statistics. The aim was to find out just how Britain gets to work. What are our preferred methods of transport for the daily commute?

In built-up urban areas such as Manchester, London, Glasgow etc, there was a significant spike in the number of people using metros or tubes. Any kind of light rail service which are synonymous with big cities. There have been also been showings that cities are more likely to encourage people to cycle to work. Although the figure averages at around 0.5%, there is a slight increase in cities.

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Why Career Women are Refusing to ‘Marry Down’

An article published on The Mail Online on 29th July of this year states that ‘A generation of high-flying women cannot find eligible men that they would consider marrying, and this is down to their lack of degrees and high incomes.’ It seems women are skewing the marriage statistics and admirably refusing to settle for less than what they want.

The date was compiled over three years by the US Census Bureau, instances where only one half of a couple works has halved in the last 40 years. With the education gap between the sexes widening, many women who naturally seek a partner to be their equal are simply staying single rather than marrying a man with less qualifications or who earns less money.

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Relax in the Workplace

Stress can be conducive to a low level of productivity. This is due in part to the fact that when we stress we tend to feel trapped in our own cognitive cycles and patterns, therefore the solutions to problems that may be simple, to us seem tangled, obscured or otherwise confounding.

Combating stress is a personal battle. You need to build a sense of calm and then maintain that throughout the day. A relaxed working environment can help. This can be anything from personal effects from home to more plants in the office.

Making sure you are relaxed can begin on your commute. Reading a book or listening to music works for some. For others grabbing a pillow and getting some shuteye works if the commute is a particularly long one on public transportation.

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At What Age Should We Have a Career By?

Finding things to do to occupy yourself during your time on earth can seem difficult at times, can’t it? If you are having trouble fitting all the little bits in you may want to try a career. A ‘career’ by definition is a dedication of at least a decade of your life to a craft. Figure out what you’re good at, what you like and run with it.

The answer to this article is simple. There isn’t one. You cannot by any means judge your life by another person’s standards. The more you compare yourself the worse you’ll feel. What is important is to decide what you’re passionate about and follow this. You will intuitively know what’s right for you.

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The Moon Landing and Remembering to Dream Again

On July 20th 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon. It isn’t a statement that needs any embellishment; it is a soul-stirring feat that hushes humanity into a deep quiet. No adjective particularly does the event justice and remembering it, even for those of us (and there are millions) who weren’t even born seems possible. It’s such a significant occurrence in human history, its emblazoned into the brains of tots and teenagers simply because it happened.

I imagine that next year, on its fiftieth anniversary there will be memorial celebrations like we’ve never seen before but now on the 49th year after Apollo 11’s momentous landing, The JA thought it best to write this little piece.

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Set the Temp (OR the Way Heat Affects the Workplace)

Everything affects the workplace. The work environment is a volatile melting pot of emotions, motives, stress and sometimes even works, too. Employee bickering needs to end. But, before that, we need to know what causes temperatures to rise like they do. Surprise, surprise, it’s the heat.

In an article published by OpenWorkSpaceDesign.co.uk at the tail end of 2015, it was revealed that an enormous 80% of us complain about the temperature in the office. This statistic isn’t exclusive to the summer months either, it’s all year round. This costs each individual worker around half an hour a day where they don’t work due to the temperature. Not good.

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Is Your Career on the Rise or Decline?

Taking charge of your own destiny is what we are all about here at The JA and here we are offering you some advice that should illuminate your career trajectory. It’s good to know where you are going before you decide whether or not it’s the right direction. So, in true JA fashion here are some questions to ask yourself to get the root of your feelings of dissatisfaction.

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The Eminence of Emojis- A How to Guide

On July 17th the 5th World Emoji Day happened. Not a national holiday anywhere in the world just yet but it’s proved its endurance and evolved from a fad to a language that transcends borders. They even made a film about them. Once, predominantly a tool utilised by generations Y and Z, its meteoric rise during the 2010s has since seen everyone besotted with the tiny symbols. Everything has been emojified, from fists to fax machines, eggplants to octopi; they’re even being taught in schools! There truly is no escape so here are a few tips on how to navigate this ceaseless army of electronic feelings.

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https://blog.thejobauction.com/the-eminence-of-emojis-a-how-to-guide/

Being a Full-Time Parent and the Daily Hustle

It’s not so much a strange opinion to hold these days that being a parent is a full-time job. Babies will be one the biggest drains to your budget facing you. That said the sheer indescribable human joy of being a new Mum or Dad more than makes up for it, right?

Expenses for another human being include food, clothes, education, entertainment but most of all: time. With or without a partner at work, a job as such may be too much of a commitment because your child will always be top priority. And while it may conflict with your newfound sense of peace and love for the world, money, unfortunately, makes it go round.

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The JA Profile: Advertise Yourself, Find Work, Make Money

The Job Auction’s USP (Unique Selling Point) is the auctioning of jobs and skills but this wouldn’t even be possible if the people behind those jobs and auctions didn’t exist. It isn’t simply a site to anonymously bid and succeed. The site also offers, regular jobs, Instajobs, tasks, and the opportunity for you to market yourself for Free!

So how does it work?…we wrote an overview on Marketing Your Business here and a little more about us here but let’s break down profiles today and discuss how they’re different from Auctioning a Skill…

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Rules of the London Underground

Human beings communicate in all kinds of ways. Verbal communication is our favourite, making vibration with our mouths usually does the trick. If that doesn’t work the next logical step is interpretive dance. A Londoner’s native dance is a kind of sighing shuffle usually done on the precipice of a platform, moving as far forward as possible before the prospect of getting crushed to death becomes a real possibility.
I’m talking about The Tube. No, not the cult Jools Holland-fronted music show from the 80s. No, of course not! LDN UNRGRD!

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Why Do Good Employees Leave?

Breaking up is never particularly fun in any respect. Relinquishing a bond with another human being, uprooting foundations and closing the book on a treasure trove of memories is a gigantic step and one it’s never easy to take. This is probably made all the more difficult when said person is paying you.
Yet sometimes a clean break is what’s needed. Although having your employee terminate their contract can sometimes come as a bit of a shock. It’s not always the ones that are underperforming you need to watch.
Decent employees often leave because they are not challenged enough. If they are performing consistently well it might be time to ask yourself whether or not the tasks they are accustomed to might be beneath their capabilities as a worker.

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How to Market your Business Without Breaking the Bank

Firstly, adjusting your mindset is a good way to start. ‘Marketing’, yes, the first thing that comes to mind is usually billboards or divisions of entire companies dedicated to billboards. This way of looking at things will only hold you back.

When your company is tanking and there need to be some cutbacks, the marketing department are usually eyed-up as prime candidates for the chop. They are not the frivolous add-ons though. Every business needs it.

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https://blog.thejobauction.com/how-to-market-your-business-without-breaking-the-bank/

What to Expect in the Corporate World

Much like starting school for the first time, the world of corporate employment can seem disorientating, menacing and exciting. It can leave you a little giddy, so have a sit down, a glass of water and a couple of deep breaths and have a read on some choice advice on how to soar instead of sink as one of the suited and booted elite.
Technical competency is what gets you the job. What keeps you it, however, is your ability to navigate the politics of the workplace. Your first forays into the corporate environment will involve the lay of the land. Advancement up the ladder depends on you becoming a part of the fabric of the company you work for. As a seamless component, watch as you are catapulted to the top of the heap. Be a corporate chameleon.

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Creating Motivation in the Workplace

Studies hark back over 30 years; all reveal the same ubiquitous outcome. Employees are not just driven by paychecks. Pizza Friday is a great motivator but beyond cheese topped tomato sauce on a bread base, lay other incentives betwixt ambition.

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The Job Auction Guide to Auctions

While we highly recommend you auction your jobs, skills and any tasks you may need doing on our main site, auctions themselves are an excellent pastime, hobby or profession. The clue is in our name and we think auctions are a brilliant example of how to heighten business acumen and make a quick buck. They are a beautifully frenetic way to make money, not just the subject matter of daytime filler television shows.

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The Job Auction: Work on your Terms

Shrewdly, The Job Auction’s founders were explicit and descriptive when naming the site. Consider what you assume The Job Auction to be for a second and ten times out of ten, its chief function will be obvious. It’s a website concerned with auctioning jobs.

It’s a notion so straightforward it mystifies the mind when you consider that it’s the first site of its kind. That isn’t to say, however, that The Job Auction shies away from its honest categorisation as a jobs board. Users can post jobs with frozen salaries and working hours and sift through applicants in a similar manner to most garden variety jobsites, thus removing the need for negotiation.

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Commuting: Comfort or Carnage?

Woody Allen once said that ‘80% of success is just turning up’. Whether Woody’s maths is entirely accurate aside, this clearly irrefutable statistic is likely to be of some consolation to the thousands of commuters shunted through London’s tubes and along its tracks for hours just to sit at a desk.

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Dreams of a Creative Career: The Big List (UK)

1 in 11 UK jobs occupy the creative industries, 1 in 6 of these are held by graduates according to Gov stats. Creative industries contributed £76.9bn to the UK economy last year. So what are the options if you’ve freshly stepped out of Central Saint Martins with a prestigious qualification under thine own belt?

Here’s a helpful list, courtesy of The National Careers Service, each with links to entry requirement...

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Your List of Work Options: Royal Palaces & Castles

We recently raced you through a whistle-stop tour of London in an article about working in tourism on our blog, this would have appealed to those interested in the city itself and tourism generally. If like many, you’d like to work for the royals themselves then perhaps consider a Royal Historic Palace as a place of work. It won’t get more austere than that...

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Events: Get Out There

Whether you’re looking for a job, have a job or own your own business, if you want to get out more this summer and go to some events relating to work, then we’ve got suggestions for you. Perhaps you just want to get out there and meet like-minded people, if they’re in your industry and have the same background you’ll likely have something in common from the get-go. Here’s a roundup of typical business events open to you...

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Soft Skills

We know we need skills to work, and the right skills for the right job but we also need soft skills. To better understand what these are, consider all other aspects of yourself, your character, attitude, responses, social skills and many more…

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Tour London: Work in Tourism

If you want to work in tourism in the UK then London is a great place to start. You’ll be able to share your passion for the location you’re in, meet new people regularly and likely gain a multitude of skills while on the job. Then there’s the fun. Let’s say you love the outdoors and your hobby is windsurfing, if you can qualify and get paid to take people out on the water, it’s the dream job for you. Beyond rural locations, let’s take a look at what London as a city has to offer for those wanting to work in tourism.

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Tattoos in the Workplace

#Tattoo has 91.4 million posts on Instagram. People it seems, like tattoos. What then of ink at work? Are tattoos a form of self-expression and irrelevant to our industry or are they ‘unprofessional’ full stop? Is this the part where tattoo becomes taboo?

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Avoid Discussing these Topics at Work

Some chat should be left out of the office. No matter how relaxed your work-space is, even among bean bags and rollerskates (a la Larry Page/Sergey Brin), there are no-no’s and for good reason. To avoid landing yourself in trouble, avoid these topics…

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Tea Please

The fuel of Britain and the way to solve any problem in the UK: tea. We’re big fans of the stuff. They say Richard Branson can drink up to 20 cups of chai per day. Whatever he’s doing: follow it. It seems to be working for him. Tea is a big part of most offices but how healthy is it and what’s it got to do with work?

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The Best Jobs in the UK? Have Your Say

According to Glassdoor, the jobs that have made the list for: Best Jobs in the UK this year are as follows…
Do you agree? What jobs would you like to see more of in 2019? – Let us know over on our Twitter page.

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Food for Work

Most of us know about healthy eating and what we should and shouldn’t consume. But what are the best foods to eat at work? How can we stay more focused, less sluggish and be super alert and proactive? Better yet how can we do this on the go with little time? -It might be simpler than you think…

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Avoid Discussing these Topics at Work

Some chat should be left out of the office. No matter how relaxed your work-space is, even among bean bags and rollerskates (a la Larry Page/Sergey Brin), there are no-no’s and for good reason. To avoid landing yourself in trouble, avoid these topics…

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Organise Your Work Space

If you want to improve your work ethic or productivity: improve your workspace. It’s a simple way of de-cluttering the mind and getting organised. We guarantee you’ll feel better having done so.

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We wish you a happy and successful 2019!

The Job Auction Team

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We wish everyone a happy festive season.

The Job Auction Team

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Market Your Business or Yourself – For Free!

1 in 10 people in the UK owns their own business. That’s a pretty high stat. If you’re freelance, a sole trader or you own a larger outfit and you want to get noticed, you could pay a lot of money for an expensive advert or you could list yourself or your business on The Job Auction for free and get more work, today.

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The Power of Plants

We’ve reported recently about cheering up the workplace by being organised and plants had a small mention but what is the real power behind foliage in the workplace? We’re not talking sad half-dead perennial in the corner, we’re actually keen to know the science behind bringing the outdoors in.

It seems mid-century interior trends of late are leaf lovers too, as new-builds across Canary Wharf, London, emulate the iconic design proposed by the Wardian. We wait for completion with baited breath to view the London skyline from between the branches.

When it comes to the workspace, we’re finding out what nature has to do with our corporate environments and if it really can make a difference.

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10 Ways to Stay Motivated During Your Job Search

We’ve all been there: Searching for a job has become tiresome and to top it off you’re running out of energy for it. You’ve done the –CV, phone calls, interviews, feedback and repeat- process. What you want now is a job. Since there’s no job in sight (yet) you could give up on life and take to your bed Or you could change the way you think about it. You can’t change your current reality by clicking your fingers but you can change your approach and that’s kind of the same thing. This starts the moment you decide it starts. Intrigued?

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10 Reasons to Work in Hospitality

Hopelessly addicted to hospitality? Do you love being around people and feel happiest when helping others? If you are a hospitality heathen, service with a smile is second nature for you and you likely crave the variety of work, clients and perhaps destinations. With these transferable skills, you can weave in and out of different departments or leave terra firma and onboard yourself with a career in aviation. Be it air, land, rail or sea… etiquette, manners and service with a smile will take you where ever you want to be…

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AI & iFamily: Robots and Humanity Unite

AI: Artificial Intelligence, currently the buzzwords about town betwixt the tech-savvy among us. Published this week in the Telegraph was news from Sir Nigel Shadbolt that robots will not destroy humanity. It seems movies depicting the future and our fears of such are unintuitivly, just that.

Sir Shadbolt is a professor of Computer Science at Oxford University and he predicts that humans will come to love robots as they do their own family. He states that we are entering an age where AI will act as carers for the elderly and a friend for lonely children. That does sound comforting.

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Get Hired: Intern, Shadow, Volunteer

As Spring fades and summer approaches, many of you are leaving school, college or even graduating university.

How then are you to get hired?

You might have a wealth of experience under your belt, the omniscience of your chosen area of education and have gained industry experience from a sandwich degree (a year in industry) or apprenticeship scheme (1-4 years); if that’s the case, we’re sure you’ll be snapped up pronto.

However, if this is not the case, you’ll likely need to prove to an employer that you have experience before you can be hired. There are a few ways in which you can do this...

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Are You on the Weak Password List?

This week the Mail Online revealed the most common passwords that hackers love. Did you make the list?

According to the Australian Government, the following list was released as a warning to those with simpler passwords and a strong message letting online users know that hackers love these simple word combinations. These simpler passwords for your accounts known as soft passwords can be cracked by hackers within minutes. Yikes.

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Changing Career Path

You’re on track but you’re not quite sure what you’re on track for or even why. You have a great job but you don’t feel great. If work has a lack-luster vibe, this article is for you: broaden your horizons, don’t suffer inertia any longer.

It’s definitely the case that what we love at 23 may not be what excites us at 33, leap forward 20 years to 53, fancy a change? -Probably, and why not. If we’re not retiring then we need more than ever to be doing what we love. We can’t lose sleep over what we’re filling most of our days with.

We’ve talked before about Career Crossroads and finding what you’re good at but here, we’ll be discussing how you can switch careers, regardless of demographic.

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