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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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 - CV Tips, career management, career planning, cv writing, education, employment, qualifications, university

College dropout Steve, a professional engineer, asks: What is the best way to explain dropping out of university in your CV? Even though I’m well on my way to gaining a degree through my job, and have vocational qualifications, I still feel that my unfinished degree looks bad on my CV. I dropped out because [...]

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Monday, September 21st, 2009 - education, employment, politics, sunday thoughts

Education, Education, Education? It is clearly the start of the UK Political Parties conference season, and in the run up to an election in 2010 it is even more intense than usual. As a recruiter who focuses on employment, there are far too many subject lines to pick on to blog about this weekend: We [...]

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Thursday, August 20th, 2009 - Article, Jobs Abroad, career management, education, employment, job search, university

A Level Economics Today is the day on which the 2009 A level results are announced. Yet again – surprise – a record-breaking number have been awarded A grades. More than one in four entries – 26.7% – got the top grade, up from 25.9% last year and the overall pass rate rose to 97.5%, [...]

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Thursday, July 30th, 2009 - Job Advert, career transition, credit crunch, education, employment, job application, job hunting, job search, recruitment

No Job Leah asks: I am depressed there ain’t no jobs out there! I have been searching for work now a year and I have got some good qualifications and complete drive to go back to work. But not one response. I have changed my CV three times! Why can’t I get a job? In [...]

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