I would go as far as to say that the University of Manchester careers Service is one of the best…read morethings about the University. If you want direction in your career they will provide it for you. Not only do they allow you access to hundreds of great jobs, graduate programs and internships, they'll actually meet you if you book a one to one session and sort your life out for you. Personally I'm doing a masters, but so many of my friends are now in careers, almost all of which they got onto through this wonderful service. If you're like me though, and don't need a career just yet, they still provide services for you. They have hundreds of great part time jobs advertised through the careers service, so that businesses can get students or graduates of Manchester University to fill their posts. In fact, its how I got my job for Yelp (which is amazing)!! Its also a great place to advertise jobs if you run a business because you can guarantee that all the applicants will be graduates of a top class university. A wonderful service that works to benefit all parties, I too am thankful that I have access to this joyous opportunity!

All universities should have a careers service, but a quality careers service is a little harder to…read moremeet. I don't know, judging from my time at University of Leeds, they're both pretty good. I've made use of the literature, the newspapers, the information booklets, the CV help service, the psychometric tests books, all a lot of good information. However they run a mock interview session if you get a job interview but never seem to have any sessions free. They insist that you have an interview secured before you can make an appointment but most of the time interviews are short notice and I'm always always missing out. However the advisors are pretty good on giving general advice and for giving you a confidence boost and you can really tell that they want you to genuinely get the job. There's many talks and information sessions to attend and you get the regular emails to inform you of the new things going on as a current student. There are actually forums and blogs that you can keep up to date with if you're a fan of the online. Overall having the careers service there gives me the confidence that I'll get somewhere as a University of Manchester graduate. Thank god.

I've never seen a job centre located in an attractive building. This is certainly no exception. "Do…read moreya know where the job centre is?" is a question I have been asked on numerous occasions whilst shopping in Chorlton Place. It's tucked just around the corner past Quality save and is not obviously signposted. When I was unemployed last year I made an appointment at this jobcentreplus. I was pleasantly surprised by the size and layout of the interior. There are quite a few machines where you can search for jobs, print out the details of jobs you are interested in. The whole centre is open plan, which made me feel a little less like I was being dragged into the head teacher's office for being naughty and lazy. My appointment was late, but the centre was quite busy. The lady I spoke to was friendly and genuinely impressed that I had written books that had been published. She decided (without really asking me) that I was going to be an author, but seemed confused that there weren't many authorial jobs on her database. She helpfully handed me some printouts about copywriting jobs that I was pretty under qualified for, and told me to come back next week. Thankfully by the time my next appointment had come round, I had been offered a job!

you have to lie to job centre to make sure u get paid otherwise they will place a sanction on your…read moreclaim i don't understand when u lie u could liable for prosecution as you are cheating the system. however i was honset to say to the job centre staff that i didn't apply for this job as i have not got the experience for this role. they have placed a sanction on my claim for been honset with them. "saying that i am not looking for work" how can they say that or even prove that am i not looking for? please please make sure u lie to get what you want from job centre and dont feel that you are doing any wrong. because if ur honest to them they will impose some form of sanction. for been honest i have not been paid from the 30/10/12 as they have but a sanction for not looking for work till feb 2013. where is the justice in that? crime pays!!!!! if u are treated this way i have given this a 5 star so people can see the truth. if i gave one star it will end up at the bottom of the review list thank you m.ali

I can never thank Diane enough for the help she gave me, I was having some serious anxiety problems…read morethat were making my life miserable, but Diane changed my outlook on life completely, she made me believe in myself again, and made me a much more confident and happier person. I must admit that when we first started I was more than a little dubious about some of her techniques but Diane's friendly style was soon able to put me completely at ease and convince me otherwise. Diane is a very determined, but warm and compassionate person, and an amazing therapist who I would recommend to anybody. Thank you Diane

From the owner: Diane Beck at Health-Success is an NLP Hypnotherapist offering specialist therapy in Central…read moreManchester and Skype. I specialise in helping people eliminate feelings of anxiety, trauma, phobia and negative emotions. I use EFT, TFT, Voice Technology, Reflective Repatterining, Havening, NLP, Energy Therapies and more.

Jobs In Games Limited promises "one of the best (if not the best)' placement experiences that is…read morestrictly focused on video game development professionals. I was taken for granted and disrespected before I could have a chance to find out. Customers are "required" to "donate" $95 USD (or local equivalent) before you can even interview with a placement agent. I did this, then followed along with their requests. First my emails went unanswered for 10 days, then after a mostly unhelpful couple responses wherein my questions went unanswered, I then did not receive any communications for 17 days. At this point, it had been 2 months since I was contacted by Jobs In Games Limited offering their services and I had not yet been provided with a single job lead, nor had I been provided with another email or point of contact for anyone in the company but the secretary. When raising my concerns with the owner of the company, Adrian Smith (who had originally reached out to me to offers his services), after many emails of me requesting his help resolving issues in his company's communication, he continually pushed the blame on me while simultaneously admitting that his company has recently been experiencing email issues on multiple services. As I pressed to have my money refunded because I'm unhappy with the lack of services provided and the way he and his company have handled the situation, he called me an "arse hole" and blocked me on LinkedIn. I highly discourage anyone who is looking for a timely, communicative or respectful placement experience from working with Jobs In Games Limited.

Simply the very best service I have ever used for finding a job. The process is clear and…read morestructured and the very best value I have found. saved me a tone of time looking for work myself and I found a job within Games in just two weeks. Would highly recommend others use this service.

My CV had someone else work history. I contacted CV Knowhow, where Naomi ( Head of Customer…read moreService) told me this was my fault. Refused to issue a refund. So I paid £145 for a badly copied and pasted CV which I can't use.

An appalling experience…read more I purchased a professional job application and personal statement writing package from CVKnowhow. Before doing so I contacted the company to verify that they had experience of writing applications for individuals within my profession (Teaching.) What I received was of exceptionally poor quality. It had the following problems: The same paragraph appeared more than once within the personal statement; There was complete ommision of my job history from the application form; Incorrect information was provided in the application form; There were multiple formatting, spelling and grammatical errors, it seemed to have been written with a lack of awareness of the skills required within my industry. In short, it was abysmal. I emailed CVKnowhow (using every contact email address I had for the company) to ask them to fix the problems or to send a refund, but I received no reply, I have since emailed 2 more times and I still haven't recieved a reply. When I later tried to contact them by the customer complaints email address listed on the website, I found that the email address was not functional. An appalling experience, not at all what I would expect from a professional writing company and I certainly wouldn't recommend them to others. I have since reported them to Action Fraud, a division of the UK police which deals with internet crime, on the grounds that the product they provided was not as described and was of very poor quality. I would encourage anyone else experiencing problems with this company to do the same.