Permanent

We provide flexible IT resourcing and consulting services to organisations to help them improve their performance. Our service covers all skill sets and job roles, from mainframe and legacy systems to the latest client server, internet and e-commerce technologies.
Open Spaces consultants make sure you find the jobs to suit your skills by making the maximum effort to fully understand your career needs and abilities.

We'll help you prepare
We provide advice on your CV and interview technique as well as pre-interview briefing followed by feedback and guidance to help improve your chances.

We'll do the hard work for you
We arrange interviews around your commitments and liaise with employers who require your particular skills.

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CV Tips
Your CV is a very powerful sales tool and should be designed to make prospective employers sit up and take notice of you. Whether you're applying for an advertised position or sending your CV speculatively, keep a few golden rules in mind:
• Make the layout as simple as possible.
• Keep it concise - ideally no more than two pages. Don't be afraid to use more, however, if you really have to.
Concentrate on differences you’ve made to your company or department - anything from saving money to improving results.
• Use short sentences and bullet-points. You can always expand on these at interview. If you use factual statistical information, make sure you have the numbers to back it up in person.
• Make the CV easy to dip into to check contact information, dates, skills, employment history and qualifications.
• Make sure there are no typing and spelling errors in your CV. Get someone else to check it for you just to make sure.
You're more likely to secure an interview if your CV is tailored to your target company.
• Employment history, starting with your most recent role. Don't forget to include company names, job titles and dates.
• Training and education history covering courses, dates and qualifications obtained.
Your CV can then be tailored to suit the requirements of each job application by adding the details of skills that specifically relate to the position you're applying
Advice for Interviews

Learn about the company you are going to see & try to read up as much as you can about them.

Do a dummy run of the journey to your interview. Turning up late will not create a great first impression of you.

Do an interview plan – a proven fact that does work, list down your strengths, your weaknesses, your unique selling point. We have one you can download here

Dress – Be sensible about how you dress. The real rule for the correct dress for interviews is quite simple really…. look neat & tidy!

The Questions

Answer the question that you are asked
Try & answer them as directly as possible – keep it brief
Organize your answers
Have a positive reason for wanting to leave your current position if asked - never speak badly of previous or current employers

What if you don’t have enough experience for this role?

When employers raise objections you must be able to convince the interviewer that you have all the relevant skills for this role. So you haven’t got all of them!! Well, stress to them the experience and quality of what you do have. Remember, the fact you are being interviewed at all means you are still a viable candidate for the role.

You’re over-qualified

If your interviewer deems that you are over-qualified for this particular role, firstly, reiterate your best qualifications for the role. View the objection as another opportunity to sell your qualifications. If the interviewer still sounds unsure, probe a bit more deeply into the resistance.

As part of our equal opportunities policy, we welcome applications from suitably qualified people regardless of sex, race or disability.

If you require further information regarding your next move with Open Spaces or if you are currently looking for resources in this marketplace please contact, enquiries@openspaces.co.uk.