A Travel Weekly business breakfast briefing this week at Google’s London HQ featured a panel of exclusive Google execs to discuss the world’s most powerful search engine’s effect on the travel industry.

To summarise – profile images should be clear, focused, honest and appeal to a professional audience.

Long gone are the days of stuffy job-salesmen with lists of telephone numbers for potential candidates, taking days to respond to an email and having a website as old as the faded sign on the door.

Many travel industry people assume that similarly to the retail high street, recruitment agencies are in a declining market. Never has this been further from the truth.

Is your New Year resolution to get a new job? Are you thinking about boosting your career or looking for something completely new?