Career Management Resource Centre

Clients of Appleby Associates have access to our Career Management Resource Centre (CMRC).

Packed with interactive tools, premium databases, and insight from 250+ contributing employers and career coaches and continually updated with new content, the CMRC offers all the tools and information you need to reach your goals.

In addition to over 1200+ articles and 100s of videos, there are 30+ interactive tools, each fulfilling a specific need to support you in your career.

Appleby Advice:  Articles, tips and pointers on how to build and raise your profile on social media: ranging from step by step guides on creating your LinkedIn profile through to who to follow and what to comment on to enhance and maintain your reputation so that you are seen by the right people for the right reasons.

Word based LinkedIn profile template including Appleby Associates tips on all fields giving you professional career coaching insights.

Career Pathways:  Over 1,000 videos of employers describing their career journeys, and the pros/cons of their current jobs. From Personal Trainers to Managing Directors, from Web Designers to Commercial Managers, from Landscape Gardeners to CEOs; they talk about what they do, what it’s like, how they came to be where they are and their hopes for the future.

Career Matching:  With Adult Directions, the market leading career matching software, seamlessly integrated into our Career Centre, you can analyse career decisions against skills, interest and occupational level, ensuring you make the right choice. Based on your responses to a series of approximately 50 questions, a list of suitable careers is identified.

CV Builder:  The CV builder guides you through the process of creating a first class CV. The wizard has been carefully structured to make it as easy as possible to complete all the necessary information. Employer training videos, on every page, help to understand quickly what hiring managers are looking for; the things to do and not to do. Audio podcasts, written examples and prompts also help you to formulate each section of your CV.

Interview Simulator:  Interviews can be daunting, even for experienced professionals. With our new interview simulator you can take a mock interview where auto-generated questions, designed to mirror the structure of interviews, test you in a time pressured environment. Answers can be recorded in audio and video for review and notes can be quickly downloaded into a preparation pack.

Practice Tests:  Our carefully selected range of 16 personality and aptitude tests simulate standard industry tests such as SHL and Myers Briggs. All the tests can be taken timed or step-by-step. There are no limits to the number of times you can take a test and feedback and results are immediately available online. All responses are saved and you can return at any time to continue, review or retake the tests.

Job Finder:  JobWire automatically searches millions of jobs from thousands of job sites, recruiters, newspapers, associations and company career sites, matching your requirements and notifying you when new opportunities appear. It’s the most comprehensive jobs database with millions of UK jobs tracked and tens of millions across 52 countries, in 26 languages.

Recruiter Database:  Getting CV’s into the hands of the right recruiters at the right time is vital to ensuring an effective job hunt, with 1,000’s of accurate global recruitment contacts this can now be seamlessly managed from our Career Centre. We have teamed up with eGOLD, the recruitment database specialist to provide their leading service to our clients to enhance their job search.

Action Planner:  The career planner helps you to set out what you want to achieve - setting goals to get there and charting your progress. It guides you through your programme to improve your job seeking or career development outcome. When action needs to be taken the planner reminds you with carefully designed email alerts, encouraging engagement and action.

E-Learning:  200 interactive e-learning courses expertly packaged to build the best mix of business skills. Covering negotiation, presentation, management, leadership, customer service, meeting skills, project management, teamwork, personal development, finance, problem solving, business writing and numeracy.

Newsroom:  The newsroom is the single source for the most up to date, relevant and influential job search and career news. Every week we filter hundreds of articles from the most credible sources around the world and select the very best for inclusion in the newsroom. Each article is around 250 words long and topics range from the best way to leverage LinkedIn, to working with recruiters, impressing interviewers and negotiating pay.

Business Networking:  Once you have identified the type of role, sector or company you are interested in, this tool makes it easy to find and network with the right people online. The pre-programmed search algorithms mean you don’t have to worry about clever search logic or which phrases to use. You just enter a person’s name or company and hit search to receive a highly specific set of results.

Professional Research:  In today's competitive market, it’s important to find an edge. Most people are under prepared, failing to discover anything interesting about the organisations they approach. We have teamed up with Alert Data, the business information specialist, to provide you with the latest insights, facts and figures on millions of UK companies.