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  • Dental Nurse Careers

    Rosalyn Davies explains to BDJ Team how she progressed from being a trainee dental nurse in 1983 to being the first DCP President of the British Society of Gerodontology (BSG) in 2017.
  • Take control of your future: Get involved with the BDA

    Young dentists face so many pressures in the modern dentistry world. Dentists are graduating with limited clinical experience, whilst patient expectations and demands are at their peak. Accompanied with rising indemnity costs and GDC fees and increased student debt, it can be a tough environment ...
  • Volunteering with Dentaid in Greece – Q&A with Judith Husband

    After being moved by stories and images of individuals and families fleeing war and persecution in their home countries, BDA Officer Judith Husband decided to take her dental skills to Greece...
  • Associates’ pension tension: are you missing out?

    The last thing you’re going to be thinking of when you start your first job is saving for your retirement.
  • Lilian Lindsay: a woman who didn’t take no for an answer

    Dentistry has quite a lot to celebrate in terms of the roles women have played in its development and also the huge contributions they make today in the profession.
  • Dos and don'ts for developing a CV

    A Curriculum Vitae is a self-marketing tool and getting an interview can depend on how good your CV is. You will need to consider what to include, how much detail is needed and how to make your CV stand out from all the others.
  • Creating rapport in an interview

    Rapport is the connection between two people; the spoken and unspoken words that say ‘we are on the same page’. In an interview situation you can employ numerous techniques to maximise the rapport between yourself and your interviewer.
  • How good is your CV?

    Writing a good CV is tricky: the message must be right but so must its appearance.