Saturday, February 13th, 2010 - Article, Social Media, career coaching, career management, employment, job application rejection, professionalism, recruitment, tutorial

Social Media Checklist If you are a Job Seeker wondering why you got rejected, Or an Executive wondering why head hunters don’t call? Its probably because of your (or lack of…) Social Media footprint! Solve the problem TODAY with Social Media Checklist If you are a job seeker, a skilled worker, or an executive thinking [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Monday, January 18th, 2010 - career, career coaching, employment, job application, professionalism, recruitment

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 [...]

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Monday, December 21st, 2009 - CV Tips, Professional CV, career transition, cv help, cv writing, employment, job application, professionalism

Worst CV ever? Kay, an HR manager, asks: As a hiring manager or recruiter, what was the WORST CV that you ever laid eyes on and why? I would say the worst I have ever seen (this was years ago) was hand written in pencil which compelled me no less to read on. It was [...]

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