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Practical jobs to suit you

Think you might have a practical personality but could do with a handy checklist to make sure? We tell you the traits of being practical and show you the A listers that share your skills...

Whether you're a practical person or have a strong academic mind, there's a job for everyone out there. It’s just a case of finding it. Take a look at our guide to working personalities and what job could suit you.

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Recruiters spend an average of 8 seconds looking at a CV.
We had 7,274 jobs in Yorkshire last month.
We had 7,714 accountancy jobs last month.
The average cost of living for a family of four is £19,240.
We had 20,490 sales jobs last month.
The average cost of living for a single person is £13,400.
The average commuting time for workers in the UK is 45 minutes.
UK workers spend an average of five years in a job.
We had 8,730 jobs in the West Midlands last month.
The ideal CV is no more than 2 pages long.
The ideal cover letter is between 250 and 300 words long.
Recruiters search our CV database 280,000 times every month.
Our three biggest sectors for jobs are sales, engineering / manufacturing and IT.
British employees work an average of 31.9 hours per week.

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