Monday, December 21st, 2009 - CV Tips, Professional CV, career transition, cv help, cv writing, employment, job application, professionalism

Worst CV ever? Kay, an HR manager, asks: As a hiring manager or recruiter, what was the WORST CV that you ever laid eyes on and why? I would say the worst I have ever seen (this was years ago) was hand written in pencil which compelled me no less to read on. It was [...]

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Thursday, December 17th, 2009 - career change, career management, career transition, cv writing, employment, job application, job search, qualifications

Job Search: qualifications transfer Tauraz asks: I am a Overseas Qualified Pharmacist, but due to regulations in the UK, I cant practice as a Pharmacist. I completed a Masters degree in Business from a very reputed UK University and I have 3 months experience as a Territory Manager selling Speciality products (Vaccines-Hormones). I presently work [...]

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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 - Job Boards, Professional CV, career change, career management, career transition, employment, job application, professionalism

Best Job Application method? Daisy, an HR Specialist, asks: I saw a temp job advertised on a job board by a specialist (HR industry) recruitment agency. They’d changed the title slightly, but by looking at the skills being asked for / doing a bit of detective work, I was able to locate what was obviously [...]

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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 - CV Tips, Job Vacancies, Professional CV, career transition, cv writing, job application, professionalism, tutorial

Why you need a CV Steve, a job seeker, asks: Why do you need a CV? Having been applying for jobs in the last few months, I am always asked to fill in a job application form; or if you email your CV, then they send you and application pack. I don’t understand why you [...]

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Friday, November 27th, 2009 - Professional CV, career change, career management, career transition, cv help, job application, job hunting, job search

Quality Job Applicant As an engineer, it always annoys me when scientific words are miss-used, particularly in marketing applications. For instance, the word quality. As a recruiter, I often hear employer clients say “Thank you. That was a quality job applicant.” Where as actually, if they said anything else, I would see that as failure [...]

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