What is the minimum wage in the UK

What is the minimum wage in the UK by Michael Cheary Not sure about current minimum wage rates?To ensure you are paid exactly what you’re entitled to, it’s always important to keep up-to-date with any changes around salaries.Here’s a quick guide to the minimum wage you can expect to earn:What is minimum wage?National Minimum Wage is the minimum payment (per hour) you are entitled to earn in any industry.It is set by the government and all employers, regardless of size, are legally required to provide its workers with the agreed amount.If they don’t, it is considered as a criminal offence.Is minimum wage available to everyone?In order to qualify for the National Minimum Wage, all workers must be of school leaving age or over.Minimum Wage will also apply for any of the following:Part-time workersTemporary workersDisabled workersAgricultural workersWorkers from overseasApprentices (who receive a slightly separate apprentice rate)Causal labourersHowever, National Minimum Wage is not available for anyone wo rking in a self-employed capacity, company directors, voluntary workers, members of the armed forces or those on work placements.For a full list of those able to claim, consult the gov.uk website.What’s the current rate?Ok, so the most important thing to remember is how much you can earn.The amount you are entitled to will vary depending on your age, and whether you are working as an apprentice.Current rates are as follows:For those aged 25 and over, the hourly rate is £8.21 (now known as the National Living Wage)For those aged between 21  and 24, the hourly rate is £7.70For those aged between 18 and 20, the hourly rate is £6.15For those aged under 18, the hourly rate is £4.35For apprentices aged between 16 and 18 (or those aged over nineteen, who are in their first year), the hourly rate will be £3.90.However, it’s important to remember that these figures are intended for guideline purposes only. The actual amount will change every year (usually around April/October time), so it’s always worth keeping up-to-date to ensure you don’t get underpaid.What if you’re not sure how much you can get?If you’re still not sure exactly what minimum wage you’re entitled to, there are many calculators out there to help you work it out.gov.uk’s National Minimum Wage calculator is an excellent starting point, and should point you in the right direction if you think you’re earning the wrong amount.* Please note, the information outlined above is intended for general guidance purposes only, and is subject to change at any time. This article was last updated  in April  2019.For more detailed information about minimum wage, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates.Find a job What Where Search JobsSign up for more Career AdviceSign up for moreCareer Advice Please enter a valid email addressmessage hereBy clicking Submit you agree to the terms and conditions applicable to our service and acknowledge that your personal data will be use d in accordance with our privacy policy and you will receive emails and communications about jobs and career related topics. Salaries What is minimum wage?

How to Choose the Best Resume Writing Service for Your Career

How to Choose the Best Resume Writing Service for Your CareerMany new service providers are beginning to step up and offer service that is not only the best of the best, but also the best of the best, but are offering a service that they call 'best of the best' for the 2020 Best Resume Writing Service Year. Here are some tips on how to choose the best of the best resume writing service and how to make sure you get value for your money.The first thing you want to do is make sure the company you hire is offering a very accurate resume writing service. If the writer has not been at it for a long time, and if it has not been an accredited service for a long time, you may want to avoid this. Also you want to see an updated portfolio of work for a writer, this way you know that the writer you have hired is doing the work that is demanded and that is in demand.The next thing you want to do is talk to your potential company. Ask if they offer training, and how much training does their writer s receive. You also want to find out if the company offers any type of training on how to write an effective resume. Ask if they offer any assistance with finding the right job, or what it takes to land the right job, and if so, how can you get a free consultation with the team.Once you have spoken to the company, make sure you have your questions answered before you hire anyone. For example, you want to know the deadlines and how you can expect to have the information you need when you need it.Also, talk to the client and ask for examples of their previous work, the type of work they have done, and how the client feels about the finished product. Make sure you get a sense of the company's personality as well. For example, do they have a friendly personality?You also want to know if they come across as real people and not just a computer. Make sure they have interesting work history or will give you a sense of who they are and what they are capable of.Once you have chosen a writer, ask them for samples of the type of work that they have done. This will give you a sense of who they are, and you can also determine if they are good at what they do, or if they do not have any specific expertise.One thing to keep in mind is that the best of the best for the 2020 year is going to come with a price tag. However, if you are paying for the best possible service, you are not just getting value for your money, but you are also saving money on employment. Therefore, finding the best of the best service does not necessarily have to cost a lot, and that is what you should be looking for.

Tell the Story of Your Organization Marla Gottschalk

Tell the Story of Your Organization Marla Gottschalk Photo by Ryan Graybill on Unsplash Tell me a leadership story â€" one that embodies the very core of where you and your organization are headed. There may be spread sheets and profit margins. Metrics and shortfalls. But, stories paint an engaging   portrait of any organization or institution. All businesses possess a rich history and leaders play a pivotal role in that developing story. Whether a start-up or established venture, leaders have a story to tell. Leaders can provide a compass for change, can align vision with talent and have the power to exert a tremendous influence upon an organization (whether positive or negative). A leader can catapult an organization to the forefront of an industry or bring it to an early demise. Just as great presidents have helped shape our country â€" leaders help define an organization, for better or worse. Tell me a leadership story â€" especially those of the leaders that have failed. We can learn from that, as well. Leaders that takes the helm of an organization at a given point in time, can reveal volumes about the state of that organization and where it might be headed. Each phase of an organizations development required a very different type of leader â€" and thats a lesson in itself. Tell me about that. However, there is another story we need to hear. Tell me your organizations leadership story. We can all to this. So what is your story. What has been left untold? Telling the tale of an organizations leaders can serve as a powerful learning tool â€" one which can leave a lasting impression on an employee. Onboard history. Speak of the leaders who were present in the early phases of the organizations life cycle. Explain their vision and how it shaped the organization. Failure 101. Reflect on leadership failures and what was learned in the process. How did these failures change the course of the organization? Who is at he helm? Introduce current leaders and the expertise they bring to the organization. Explain how their current vision has been translated into strategy and action. Strategy review. Discuss key inflection points that influenced the organization. How did leadership impact the outcomes? What did we learn, going forward? With a look to the past,   we can improve the future   and possibly avoid costly mistakes that have already been made. Take the time to discuss the rich history of leadership in your place of business and offer your employees the advantage of perspective. Tell the story of your organization. Its a tale that needs to be told. Dr. Marla Gottschalk is a Workplace Psychologist. You can find her on Twitter and Linkedin.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land In a typical day of running errands in Jacksonville, I’ll encounter workers who have come from all over the world: Vietnam, Africa, Europe, India, and South America. I have enormous admiration for someone who chooses to locate to another country and master language, culture and new job skills. I spoke recently to an American who chose to work outside the U.S. and master those same skills. #494330203 / gettyimages.com Brenda Bautista grew up in Akron, Ohio and fell in love with the Spanish language early. She studied for years in school and decided to move to Mexico to attend La Universidad de las Americas to pursue her college degree. She earned a degree in International Relations and wound up working and living in Mexico for ten years. Brenda had prepared for years to travel to her new home and culture, and she was shocked on her first day by how â€" foreign â€"it all felt. “I’d studied Spanish for years and was considered fluent,” she says, “but when I got off the plane, I couldn’t even ask where to catch a taxi.” Idiomatic Spanish sounded completely different than her classroom lessons and her Ohio-accented and suddenly halting Spanish failed her. That wasn’t a problem for long; she soon boarded a local bus filled with indigenous people who didn’t even speak Spanish. Brenda had experienced three very different worlds and languages since her alarm had gone off that morning; it took her a while to get over her culture lag. She did, of course, adjust, and after graduating from college spent years working for a large U.S. company with a significant presence in Mexico City. Her job was cross-cultural training â€" Spanish language and Mexican cultural training for employees who frequently traveled or worked in Mexico. Brenda says that every student in the Mexican school system begins English lessons in kindergarten, and most companies offer free foreign language classes on site before and after workers report for their shifts.   English, French or German are the most common offerings, and workers take full advantage of the classes. When Brenda left Mexico to return to Ohio, she found it hard to adjust to her native culture. “Everything, from how close people stood to you on the bus to how warmly they greeted you in stores, felt different.” Her first appealing job offer was from Toyota â€" a Japanese company â€" working in Germany, selling automobiles to Americans. She took it, and her work in Germany gave her a front row seat to observe differences between high and low-context cultures. The terms “high” or “low context” in reference to culture first appeared the  anthropologist  Edward T. Hall’s  1976 book  Beyond Culture. In low context cultures, (The U.S. being one of the best examples), people say what they mean directly and with little embellishment. In high context cultures, people communicate more obliquely, letting the shared cultural experience, tone of voice and body language fill in the gaps. Arab and Asian cultures are often cited as a great examples of how subtle and complex communication can be. Rather than disagree openly with you, a high-context communicator may say, “perhaps.” If you go away happy, thinking you have won your point, you may be dismayed to find that you’ve not won your point â€" or your deal â€" later. Brenda acknowledged how challenging it could be to move from a warm and informal culture like that in Mexico, to a structured, no-nonsense, direct culture like Germany’s. Add in the high context, formal and subtle communication style of the Japanese managers, and Brenda often felt like a stranger in a strange land. I wouldnt trade it for anything, she says now. In fact, since moving to Jacksonville, shes opened her own consulting firm to offer cross-cultural training to local companies. Find her at Window to the World: w2winstitute.com. Next post: High and Low Context Communication.

What to Include on Your Labor and Delivery Nurse Resume

What to Include on Your Labor and Delivery Nurse ResumeWhen you're working toward getting hired by a new company, a nurse's labor and delivery nurse resume is a great place to start. A lot of it depends on your qualifications and work experience, but there are a few things that every potential candidate should keep in mind.First of all, most positions have at least some requirements for becoming a registered nurse or LPN. Some hospitals require you to have done some internships while in school, while other positions have more stringent requirements. Many nurses become LPNs before they can even pass their board exams, which is something you can always expect if you've put in the necessary time in nursing school.Of course, most individual hospital requirements are geared towards the kind of clinical responsibilities that you'll be performing while working at the hospital. This means you may be asked to do something totally different than what you were asked to do at school. For example , at a state university, you may be able to do just about anything you want as long as you fulfill the school's board certification requirements. However, at a hospital, you're expected to get clinical rotations and make sure that you spend plenty of time getting familiar with the hospital's policies and protocols.Because you'll be working closely with doctors and nurses and working with patients, you'll also need to understand how to interact and communicate with patients to help them. Your certification will be an important factor when you're interviewing for jobs, so it's a good idea to make sure you have a back up plan in case things don't go as planned. You should also make sure that you're using good communication skills so that you can ease patient concerns and create a professional relationship with the physicians and nurses.If you don't feel comfortable doing clinical rotations while studying, try taking a class online. There are many online universities that offer classes that you can take after graduation. These classes can give you a jump-start on the real thing, so they should be a great option for anyone looking to enhance their nursing career.Since most hospitals are looking for someone who has worked on a variety of patients and knows how to treat them quickly and effectively, you'll want to write your certification requirements in detail. These include information about the facility where you got your certification, any experiences that show how you can be a beneficial employee, and any experiences that show how you can apply these skills in the field. Even if you think you have experience in a certain area, you may find that there's plenty of data to support your claims that you're a capable medical staff member.Keeping this information together will make a big difference in the way that you're perceived by your prospective employers. Remember that you'll be asked to submit a labor and delivery nurse resume, so your objective should be to pre sent yourself as someone who can really contribute to the nurses and physicians in the hospital. It's a mistake to send out an otherwise great resume only to find out that you don't meet the minimum requirements.Work your clinical rotations into your educational experience while you're studying. If you really want to impress employers, your education can't hurt, and you should use it to boost your resume even more.

Summary Sunday Skills and Drills To Enhance Your Career

Summary Sunday Skills and Drills To Enhance Your Career What will it take to thrive in your career? You want to make the most money possible, network more efficiently, develop in-demand skills and handle workplace conflict, right? Each of these articles has information to help you stay competitive! INTERVIEWING 6 Salary Negotiation Tips That Work for Everyone by Cassidy Rush | Payscale Fewer than 43% of Payscale respondents said they had ever asked for a raise. Why so few? The top reasons were that they felt uncomfortable discussing pay or were afraid of being perceived as pushy. Sound familiar? Learn what you can do to overcome these fears! NETWORKING Five Networking Opportunities Hidden In Your Average Workday by  J. Kelly Hoey | Fast Company There are easier, less time-consuming ways to network. These 5 will help you! CAREER The 10 Best-Paying Jobs for Millennials by  Rebecca Koenig | US News World Report Its not the jobs that I found interesting in this article. It was the chart about what is important to Millenials. Here it is. via US News World Report The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Alex Gray | World Economic Forum By 2020, 35% of skills that are considered important in today’s workforce will have changed. Maybe its time to pay more attention to developing these skills! via World Economic Forum 7 Tricky Work Situations, and How to Respond to Them by Alicia Bassuk | Harvard Business Review We all face conflict and uncomfortable situations at work. Maybe youll handle one of yours better if you read this. [You may need to create a free account to read the full article, but its worth it.] HOT ISSUE Study finds 75 percent of workplace harassment victims experienced retaliation when they spoke up by  Tara Golshan | Vox Here are some numbers to help you see how shame, fear, and cultural norms all allow sexual harassment to go underreported. In 2016, the EEOC released a comprehensive study of workplace harassment in the United States, which concluded that “anywhere from 25% to 85% of women report having experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.” “One 2003 study found that 75% of employees who spoke out against workplace mistreatment faced some form of retaliation,” the EEOC report found. Unwanted physical touching was formally reported only 8% of the time; and sexually coercive behavior was reported by only 30% of the women who experienced it. Studies have found that 6% to 13% of individuals who experience harassment file a formal complaint. one in four reported having experienced some form of harassment in the workplace. But when specific acts of harassment were mentioned, like sexual coercion or crude jokes, 60 percent of women reported having experienced some form of sexual or gender harassment. Mandatory confidential arbitration hides the problem on two fronts: They keep victims feeling isolated, and at times like the only people affected, and they insulate the perpetrator.

How Not To Look Old When Youre Looking For A Job

How Not To Look Old When You’re Looking For A Job How Not To Look Old When You’re Looking For A Job Age Discrimination Job seekers begin to worry about age discrimination as early  as their mid-forties. Serious concerns begin around 55. And the truth is, age discrimination  or ageism is out there. There are a lot of reasons, not related to skills, that  people don’t get hired. They may be considered too young or, in some cases, the  wrong gender. They may not get the job because, subconsciously, they  remind the interviewer of a former boss they despised. Conscious and unconscious biases exist. While you can’t control them, you don’t have to feed into  them either. If you’re concerned about age discrimination, do what you can to not look old and outdated during your job search. Modern Email Ditch the AOL email address. While AOL was cutting edge 20+  years ago today it makes you look dated. That goes for Yahoo and Hotmail too. Switch  to something more current like @gmail.com. Choose an email address that’s professional like your name  or a version of your name for your job search. Addresses like talktome@ or  fastdriver@ won’t impress employers. Whatever you do, don’t use your company email as many  employers monitor staff emails today. Background Photo When LinkedIn changed its user interface a few years ago  they added space at the top for a background photo. The default is a barely designed  medium blue box. A lot of smart people don’t bother to upload a photo. Many  don’t even think about it. This is a big mistake for 2 reasons. It makes you look generic, which you’re not. Even worse, it  makes you look outdated and may make employers wonder it that’s the only place  you’re outdated. Strong Profile Many people misuse LinkedIn, particularly the Summary  section. Some write it in the 3rd person, much as they would a bio  for their business or company site. Other people use the Summary, and often the  Professional Experience section, as an advertisement for their employer. When recruiters or employers visit your LinkedIn profile,  they want to know about you. So give them some insight into why you do what you  do. What gets you excited or makes you proud? Why did you choose your career in  the first place? Modern Appearance Being over 50 doesn’t mean you’ll never find a job. But,  just as your resume should have a modern look, so should you. This doesn’t mean you have to try to look younger. But a  suit, hairstyle, or eye wear that’s a decade old is going to make you look old  too.   Rethink your overall appearance. Are you wearing the same  interview suit you wore the last time you were out of work? Now might be the  time to get something new. Avoid Certain Phrases Once you’re looking fresh and vibrant avoid phrases that  date you. Nothing screams “I’m old” more than an AOL email is saying “back in  the day.” Mentioning that the IT gal reminds you of your daughter or,  worse, your granddaughter or your son showed you how to set up your LinkedIn  profile will age you as well. Don’t anticipate age discrimination when you’re looking for  a new job. People in their 60’s find jobs in “young” industries. As a recruiter, one of the candidates I worked with was a woman  in her 60’s. I never asked her age, she mentioned it to me in conversation. While  I didn’t place her, she was one of the top candidates. And she did find an  advertising job through someone else.   She had a vivacious, engaging personality. I didn’t meet her  face-to-face, but her LinkedIn photo showed a vibrant, current looking woman  with a friendly smile. Being of a certain age didn’t stop her. It doesn’t have to  stop you either.