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We are looking into the value of work experience and the affects it has had or is thought to likely have on the potential of landing a new job. 

Work experience can provide invaluable skills that can be highlighted on a job application. Recruiters respect work experience as it displays a desire to learn and develop one self and is always viewed favourably. We want to know your thoughts. Do you think it could help you land your dream job? Has it helped you in the past?

We are also looking at the differences between locations on work experience. Please answer our survey based on where you are currently living. Click on your location below....

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Australia

Canada

Middle East

Asia

We have a brand new role to promote on our site for a Mechanical Technician in Didcot. 

Know anyone that may be suitable? Why not, let them know?? Or is this something for you? If so, read on....

This full time, permanent Mechanical Technician role is paying in between £25,499 and £29,999 with a discretionary range up to £34,499. 

Diamond Light requires an experienced Mechanical Technician to work on the I15-1 beamline. The position will initially involve supporting the Diamond Scientists during installation and commissioning. When this has been concluded you will maintain the equipment and work with the scientists in designing and installing new components and helping users to carry out their experiments. The ideal candidate will have good workshop skills, ideally with some machining (milling / turning) experience (but not essential) and experience of working with delicate state-of-the art pieces of equipment. You should have an ONC / GNVQ level 2 or equivalent.

Applications are being accepted up until the 26th November 2017.

You can read more about this role on our website and you can apply directly there.

We are delighted to announce that we have now hit the 4.5 million mark for jobseeker registrations. These are the total number of candidates that are actively looking for a job. Our figures span the 172 Countries around the World and within the 61 industry sectors.

If you know of anyone looking to recruit and after a new avenue for job advertising, then why not recommend TipTopJob to them. Depending on their location and job numbers, we gladly offer job advertising trials. You can get in touch via email by clicking here.

To browse our locations, click this link and to see our industry sectors, visit this page.

We have had an exciting opportunity registered onto our site this week looking for highly motivated individuals for the Dispatcher role within the Force Contact Department. The successful candidates will enjoy a fast paced and exciting role in a supportive environment that is proud to deliver an excellent service to colleagues and the public using the Force Airwave and telephony systems.

The role involves making resourcing decisions, appropriate to incidents and ensuring the Force meets its graded response times. As a direct link to front line officers, applicants will maintain contact, ensure officer safety and address any immediate issues. As part of the role, applicants will also support colleagues in a side step function within the Service Desk area of the control room. This part of the role involves ongoing support to officers at an incident, liaising with members of the public over the phone and completing IT related intelligence enquiries.

A successful candidate will be one who can demonstrate: a strong ability to manage demand; a decisive problem solving and excellent communication skills. Ideally you should have experience of dealing with the public in a customer services capacity, have experience and confidence in using a variety of IT systems and have proven communication skills.

For a more detailed description, you can click through to our website and apply online. Good luck. Do not forget to let anyone who may be interested in this role know.

At the end of June, we discovered the following highlights when looking at candidate and job registrations.....

- We ended June with 4,028,417 candidates and 2,093,995 CV's registered Worldwide.

- There are 350,000 live jobs to search through.

- The "Retail & Wholesale" industry brought the highest numbers of jobseekers throughout June with 3,268 registrations.

- The "Transport, Logistics & Distribution", "Secretarial,Office & Administration" and "Health, Nursing & Social Services" industries closely followed behind with high jobseeker numbers.

- The "Information Technology" industry is still the largest in terms of jobseekers standing at 476,263.

- The "Catering & Hospitality" industry had the highest number of jobs posted in June - a total of 962,086 jobs. 

- The "Advertising, Marketing & PR" and "Transport, Logistics & Distribution" industries came next in line for job counts.

For any further information regarding the TipTopJob statistics, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.

Introducing our new "Candidate Comments" page on TipTopJob.

This is what our Candidates say about us - CLICK HERE...........

Candidates by Industry
-        Transport, Logistics & Distribution had the highest number of candidates registered in Feb of 9,507 candidates
-        Secretarial, Office & Administration was the 2nd highest with 2,536 registering in Feb
-        IT still has the highest TOTAL number of candidates of 469,468 and Engineering 2nd of 365,195, then Health 3rd with 306,084

Jobs by Industry
-        Catering & Hospitality had the highest number of jobs registered in Feb of 131,064 followed by IT of 99,507
-        Purchasing & Supply Chain had the highest monthly growth in job numbers from Jan to Feb of 244% followed by Construction of 69%

Applications by Industry
-        Transport, Logistics & Distribution had highest number of applications in Feb of 12,846 applications – a growth of 250%
-        2nd largest industry for applications is Secretarial, Office & Administration of 4,177 applications and Catering & Hospitality of 3,441 applications

Candidates by Country
-        UK had the highest number of candidates registered of 21,051 (USA only had 838 – number 8 in the list)
-        Mexico had the 2nd highest number in Feb of 2,208
-        UK has the highest number of candidates of 813,087 running total followed by the USA which has 613,319

Jobs by Country
-        The USA has the largest number of jobs being registered of 563,833
-        Germany is 2nd of 87,809
-        UK is 3rd of 40,565 

Applications by Country
-        UK had the highest number of applications of 30,774 in Feb
-        Mexico had the 2nd highest number of 4,736
-        USA is number 7 in the list with 1,188 (shows having job numbers doesn’t = candidates and applications any more)
-        3rd = Argentina, 4th = South Africa, 5th = Chile, 6th = Pakistan, 7th = USA, 8th = Ecuador, 9th = Canada

The ex-military industry:
-        Increase of 47% in candidates registering from Jan to Feb
-        Now a total of 441 candidates registered
-        140 registered in Feb
-        78 jobs posted in Feb
-        20% increase from Jan to Feb
-        126 applications in Feb (almost 2 apps per job!!)
-        41% increase in number of applications from Jan to Feb

Industry Stats - Jobseekers
Leading industries on TipTopJob in terms of jobseeker numbers remain to be IT, Engineering, Health and Office. The Ex-military and the Charity industry however saw the largest growth from December to January.

Industry Stats - Jobs
The Catering industry has the highest number of jobs being registered in January followed closely by the IT and Health industries. The largest growth was seen in the Ex-military industry.

Country Stats – Jobseekers
The UK attracted the highest number of jobseekers in January and has the largest database out of the full list of Countries. Mexico however attracted the second largest number of jobseekers followed by India throughout January but the USA still remains to hold the second largest number in the database.

Country Stats – Jobs
The highest number of jobs posted were into the USA through January, followed by Germany and then the UK.

Here at TipTopJob, we are running a competition on our Facebook page until the Friday 19th December to win 1 of 3 Christmas Presents.

So what can you win and how?

All you need to do is...

1. LIKE our Facebook page to enter into the competition to win a KINDLE FIRE. Our Facebook page can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tip-Top-Job/459197140530.

2. SHARE our Facebook page to enter into the competition to win an iPad mini. Our Facebook page can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tip-Top-Job/459197140530.

3. REGISTER on TipTopJob to enter into the competition to win a NEW Widi iPad. Click here www.TipTopJob.com to register.

It really is that SIMPLE. Just simply like, share or register and you can be a winner just in time for Christmas. Winners will be announced on Monday 22nd December 2014.