Careers and pay

How to ask for a pay rise in a UK job: researching your market rate, timing the conversation around budget cycles, what to say, and your options if the answer is no.

A realistic plan for changing career in the UK: testing the idea cheaply, funded retraining routes, handling a pay dip, and rewriting your CV so employers take the move seriously.

How to get promoted in a UK workplace: making the business case, using appraisals and one to ones properly, acting up, and what to do when the next step does not exist where you are.

What is actually negotiable in a UK job offer, the sentence that does the work, how to counter without a rival offer, and the point at which pushing costs you the job.

What managers judge in the first fortnight, the questions to ask on day one, what probation actually means in UK law, and the mistakes that cost people jobs they had already won.