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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Saturday, May 30th, 2009 - IT Jobs, career change, career management, career planning, career transition, construction jobs, cv help, economics, education, employment, project management, qualifications, recruitment, redundancy, unemployment

PrinceII Training photo credit: 24seven Communications With all the bad press around at present with regards the economy, and resultant unemployment, it did surprise but didn’t shock me when I read this week that 1 in 10 employers facing a skills shortage. Why is this? One of the reasons is that school leavers are no [...]

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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 - Article, career management, construction jobs, economics, education, employment, salary negotiation, unemployment

UK Employment Data photo credit: El mundo de Laura Amid the who-ha of Alastair Darling’s 2009 UK Budget – which burdened every man, woman and child in the UK with £12,000 of debt until at least 2017 – there was the release on Tuesday of UK Employment data to February 2009. In summary, it wasn’t [...]

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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 - construction jobs, cv writing, job application, job interview, resume writing

David asks: I recently had a phone interview with a company that I would love to work for, as an entry level project controls junior in construction. During the interview it was mentioned that the company uses Primavera extensively – I have experience with MicroSoft Project, a product similar to Primavera. A friend sent me [...]

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