Saturday, February 13th, 2010 - Article, Social Media, career coaching, career management, employment, job application rejection, professionalism, recruitment, tutorial

Social Media Checklist If you are a Job Seeker wondering why you got rejected, Or an Executive wondering why head hunters don’t call? Its probably because of your (or lack of…) Social Media footprint! Solve the problem TODAY with Social Media Checklist If you are a job seeker, a skilled worker, or an executive thinking [...]

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Monday, January 18th, 2010 - career, career coaching, employment, job application, professionalism, recruitment

Employment: Blue Monday? According to the Daily Mail and half the “intelligentsia” press, today is Blue Monday: the most depressing day of the year. They quote: If you think life is a grind and you’d rather be doing anything other than going to work, you’re not alone. Today is officially Blue Monday – the most [...]

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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 - career coaching, economics, employment, job hunting, legal, politics

Industrial relations: British Airways 1970s style? I was going to write a blog entry last week re the industrial relations dispute at British Airways, but decided to wait until the weekend for both the media reaction and reflection of the High Court strike ban on what was deemed an illegal ballot. I thought that there [...]

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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 - Professional CV, career coaching, economics, employment, salary, salary negotiation

Wage negotiation: money v total package As it is coming up to Christmas – first mention of that word on this blog this year – I thought it would be a good idea to have a few “seasonal” blog entries. Some will be socially observational, some will be new years planning – but all will [...]

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Friday, December 4th, 2009 - career coaching, construction jobs, cv writing, economics, education, employment, professionalism, recruitment, unemployment

Job Centre: tools or techniques, but no jobs Since the start of the recession, and climbing unemployment figures, the focus of the media has been on two key economic issues: How quickly are the unemployed numbers rising? When will the economic recession end? We know from past data and recessions, that the first won’t stop [...]

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