Friday, April 24th, 2009 - Article, candidate, career management, career planning, cover letter, credit crunch, education, employment, tutorial

Value of a Cover Letter? photo credit: ahisgett Many ask, and you may well be one of them: what is the value of a Cover Letter? Here is a very personal story which lead to the offer of employment before the person in question was of legally employable age – and all she wrote was [...]

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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 - How to Write a CV, Professional CV, career change, career management, career planning, career transition, contractors, how to make a cv, job application, software engineer

Career Change CV Howard asks: Over the years I have worked with several small teams in quite “changeable” companies – this has resulted in a lot of experience in a lot of areas, but not exactly focussed expertise. What’s the best way to present this “jack-of-all-trades” type of experience without it appearing negative or CV-padding? [...]

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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 - career coaching, career management, career planning, job application, job hunting, job seeking, legal, marketing, professionalism, regulation

I want to be an actress photo credit: Tammy Manet Rose asks: I want to be an actress in movies. I am 13 how can i get into a movie? I have had some experience in theatre? How do I get noticed? I have been on websites but they have not helped. I want to [...]

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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 - CV Tips, career management, career planning, cv writing, job application, tutorial

Should you include articles or references to written work in your CV? If yes, how should you include them?

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Friday, February 13th, 2009 - cardiff jobs, career management, career planning

Career Planning Career Management Tomorrow will be a big day in Cardiff. The entire Welsh economy for 2009 will be decided on by how much 15 hero’s in red crush 15 poorly organised blokes in Persil laundered white shirts. Seriously, it means that much to the Welsh spirit to be able to have won against [...]

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