Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 - career change, career management, career planning, employer, employment, legal, professionalism
Career planning: pregnancy, maternity and children
I have answered the question a number of times with female friends about Career planning, and how they should address the issues of pregnancy, maternity and children. So it seemed about time to put my thoughts into public.
Most women when asking the question are concerned more about the impact on [...]
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 - employer, employment, job application, recruitment
Lush Cosmetics Jobs
I was having a look at my Google Reader the other day (great tool for the job seeker), and found this question about applying for a job at Lush Cosmetics:
Creative ideas for job application?
So i went into town today looking for a job, i went into this place called Lush ( Place that [...]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 - career change, employer, employment, job application, job search, recruiters, recruitment, tutorial
How to hire a recruiter
I was talking to a friend this morning, who asked if I would speak to 200 SME business people next year about how to hire a recruiter.
I thought this a quite simple and easy task which could be completed in around 30seconds, and not need a 30min slot accompanied by a [...]
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Monday, July 27th, 2009 - Job Advert, career change, employer, employment, job application, job search, references, tutorial
Employer reference?
Carole asks: My prospective employer has withdrawn his offer as my previous employer put the wrong dates down on my employment reference. I was deputy manager in the care sector (Mar 07) then promoted to manager 7 months later (Oct. 08-present). I was given a verbal and then written offer of a great new [...]
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009 - career management, credit crunch, economics, employer, employment, politics, recruitment, redundancy
British Airways – no pay, but no jobs guarantee
British Airways has announced today that in response to their request that 30,000 workers work for nothing for up to 1month:
800 will working for nothing for one month
4,000 workers are taking 1months unpaid leave
1,400 people have volunteered to work part-time
Chief executive Willie Walsh had already agreed to [...]
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