Sunday, July 19th, 2009 - career change, career management, career planning, career transition, employment

Career Choices? Andrew asks: If one is equally comfortable in business analyst role, presales role or business development role then which one can give best ROI in the IT field? Are there any other roles which MBAs can look for? In answer: A specific answer depends on how the roles are positioned inside the organisation [...]

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Friday, July 17th, 2009 - Job Advert, career change, career management, career transition, cv help, employment, job application, job hunting, job search, job seeking, professionalism

Can’t find a job? Danny asks: I often read that there is a shortage of people in Scotland with no 2nd language. I am fluent in French and Spanish, my German is not too bad and I’m learning Gaelic. I have the letters MA, DPSI, ACIL after my name and do the odd interpreting job [...]

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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 - career change, career management, career transition, economics, education, professionalism, project management, qualifications

How can I get into Project Management? Andrew asks: After more than 3 years as a online journalist/copywriter, I want to make a change and retrain as a project manager, but I’m not sure how to go about it. Any ideas? I studied Politics at Uni (got a 2.1), and I have an MSc in [...]

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Sunday, July 5th, 2009 - CV Tips, Interview Questions, career transition, cv help, discipline, employment, job hunting, professionalism, redundancy, sacked, tutorial

Resign or Redundant? Kirsty asks: Is it better on CV to resign from a job, or to be made redundant? I am considering changing my job but I think I might be made redundant in the next three months. Do future employers prefer to see ‘resigned from previous job’ or ‘made redundant from previous job’ [...]

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Friday, July 3rd, 2009 - How to Write a CV, IT Jobs, Interview Questions, Professional CV, career change, career management, career transition, cv help, cv template, cv writing, employment, how to make a cv, interview techniques, job search, professionalism, recruitment

IT Jobs Code Samples Katherine asks: When IT employers ask for code samples, what are they expecting? How long, how complex? In answer: It depends: why not ask the employer? Software Writers or Coders come in four forms: creators, efficiency improvers, maintainers – and systems designers. This type of question is designed to prove or [...]

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