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Job Application: trial period
Claire, a job seeker, asks: Is this employer taking advantage of me? I gave my CV into a cafe to apply for a job as a waitress, and the next day she called me asking if I could come and work for a 2hr non-paid trial? The following day, I came in [...]
CV Writing: explaining dismissal
Many job seekers, when attempting to write their own Professional CV, think they face more problems that they actually do in their job application. As I have said before, the key to thinking about any perceived CV Writing difficulty is to think of the explanation from the employers point of view: what [...]
UK Unemployment: January 2010
The Office of National Statistics released the UK Unemployment data today, and it contained a small shock: unemployment fell by 7,000, the first fall in 18months. Total unemployment stood at 2.46 million for the three months to November, down 7,000 on the figure for the previous three months. It ends the continuous [...]
Job Application: always think Job Interview
If there is one mistake that the majority of job applications make, it is focusing serially on their job application, over success in the final aim: the job interview
Why is focusing on the job interview a more successful strategy over focusing serially on:
Finding jobs
Job Application
Telephone Interview
Job Interview
The tendency to focus [...]
Employment: Blue Monday?
According to the Daily Mail and half the “intelligentsia” press, today is Blue Monday: the most depressing day of the year. They quote:
If you think life is a grind and you’d rather be doing anything other than going to work, you’re not alone. Today is officially Blue Monday – the most miserable day [...]