Guests this week: Darren Northcott, a national official for education at teacher's union, NASUWT, talks to us about routes into teaching, the challenges increasing numbers of acadamies will have on teacher training and offers tips on picking your specialist subject. (For further information — Darren recommends the Training and Development Agency for Schools website.)
Plus Flora Milne, science teacher at Southfields Community College, sneaks into the staff room to tell us about life on the Graduate Teaching Programme — where trainees are placed in a school from day one — and why she left advertising for a role in the classroom.
News review: We ask if recruiting from India the answer to the UK doctor shortage, hope that a rise in charity vacancies this month are the green shoots we've all been waiting for and and wonder why a quarter of all employees plan to leave their jobs this year.
Also in the pod: Eager to find out what professionals in the sector thought of the UK doctor shortage news, Harriet talks to junior doctors Saeed Mosleh and Guy Cockcroft about their experiences of finding a job.
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Tip of the week: Has a troublesome tweet come back to haunt you in an interview? If so, take heed of Julian Linley's advice — remember you're on record.
Q&A review: Getting into, and getting on in, B2B journalism — Alison White explores the importance of shorthand and how to identify top titles in the B2B sector.
The jobs top 10: We're running with the teaching theme this week and have picked out some interesing education roles in the jobs top 10 including a learning and events co-ordinator at BAFTA and a practitioner in computer games art role at Bournemouth University.
For more information — and, of course, more jobs — go to jobs.guardian.co.uk.
Q&As coming up:
9 June: A guide to assessment centres
10 June: Getting onto graduate schemes: the civil service
The Careers Talk theme music was created by Colin Miller.
