Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 - Professional CV, career management, degree, economics, employment, job hunting, job search, qualifications, recruitment, unemployment

Graduate Trainee Recruitment The life blood of economics and industry is – people. Unfortunately, as people both get older, get ambitious – and in part by a process where by organisations re-brand people as “staff” – in most organisations, there is a continual need to replace and add to people numbers. This is termed recruitment. [...]

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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 - Article, career planning, credit crunch, degree, discipline, economics, education, employment, government jobs, job hunting

Army Careers This evening, the BBC’s popular magazine programme The One Show had as its first article, the former ITV Loose Women presenter and notable journalist Kaye Adams reporting from Bridgend, on the issue of the British Armed Forces recruiting in economically deprived areas. Adams interviewed two mothers – one of a soldier killed in [...]

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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 - career planning, degree, education, employment, job application, qualifications

Which Cooking School? Steve asks: I want to be a successful chef, so looking to see if this certificate or course will help me on my way? Ashburton Cookery School offer a 20 day cookery diploma for £2700 its a 20 day course? Is this the sort of thing you could put on your CV [...]

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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 - Article, cv writing, degree, education, employment, graduate cv, job hunting, job interview

Graduate Education Being a recruiter, I am often asked by current school attendee’s: Ian, what is the best degree to get if I want a job in X industry? Am I better off going for Oxbridge, Redbrick university or former polytechnic? At this point – and as you have probably read a few of my [...]

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Monday, October 27th, 2008 - career coaching, career management, cv help, cv writing, degree, education, qualifications

MBA equivalent photo credit: Maria Keays strong>Russell asks: How do you present “MBA-equivalent training and experience” on a resume? I don’t have an MBA or graduate degree, but I do have formal and informal education plus work experience that compares very favorably to MBAs from top schools and even PhD (so I have been told [...]

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