Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 - CV Tips, Professional CV, cv help, cv writing
Professional CV Tips
When it comes to giving Professional CV Tips, the answer is always to keep it simple, and concentrate as much on the Professional CV as the CV Tips which focus on you and the process used for choosing which jobs to apply for and then the job application process.
We have covered CV Basics [...]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 - Employment Reference, career transition, employment, interview, job application, job interview, references
Reference: when in a job application?
John, a job seeker in sales, asks: I am in a good job at present, but looking to move soon. My question is, when should I seek to line up my references? Most of my old bosses/employers have moved on or gone out of business. Approaching some of my old [...]
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Monday, February 8th, 2010 - Professional CV, career management, career planning, employment, professionalism
Career plan: talent development
Brian, a technologist and project administrator at an investment bank, asks: I’ve been doing some research into the way my organisation looks at developing, nurturing and retaining it’s internal talent, and decided it would be a good idea to see other organisational approaches and what people expect. For this question, Internal Talent [...]
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Friday, February 5th, 2010 - employment, job search, marketing, recruitment, tutorial
Twitter: #FollowFriday for UK #Jobs Seekers
Twitter is the social media of the moment, and many tout it as the solution for UK Job Seekers.
Twitter is a micro-blogging service, which you can think of as online mobile texting. You have 140 characters to say and send what ever you want. If people find what you say [...]
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010 - Blog
Employment law: whistle blowing
Have you ever been tempted when witnessing something at work, which you know to be immoral and probably illegal, possibly in employment law, to become a whistle blower? Perhaps it was an issue of management, judgement, or a known and well executed short cut which is illegal and continually abused?
Personally, I am [...]
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