Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 - Blog, economics, employment, job application, politics, professionalism, sunday thoughts

Employment and the BNP This evening, BNP Leader Nick Griffin will take his place on the BBC’s political discussion programme Question Time. The decision by the BBC has proved highly controversial, with various politicians, Human Rights and equality groups, and media editors most often decrying the decision as legitimising the BNP; over the BBC’s argument [...]

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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 - Professional CV, career change, job application, job application rejection, job search, professionalism, tutorial

Reject Job Applications When I first came into the world of recruitment and employment full time, two things suddenly struck me: That, on average in the typical job search, we were dismissing half of the job applications at the first stage: sifting That, to a great extent, the dismissed applications were dealt with as irrelevant [...]

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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 - career coaching, career planning, employment, job search, professionalism, qualifications

Career Planning As we return slowly over the next eighteen months to an economy which is creating more jobs than it is shedding, and unemployment starts to fall, in the world of employment we will see two issues return to the table: the shortage of skills within the market place, resulting from reduced birthrate the [...]

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Thursday, September 10th, 2009 - Job Advertisement, job hunting, job search, professionalism

Job advertisement: sales or purchase? I think I have just figured out where most job seekers and job applicants are going wrong: one of those life “click” moments. To start out, here are two questions: What is sales? According to the Oxford English Dictionary – and most countries legal definition – it is the exchange [...]

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Friday, September 4th, 2009 - CV Tips, How to Write a CV, Professional CV, cv help, cv writing, how to make a cv, job search, professionalism, project management

Team Performance Contribution Lee, an aerodynamics consultant, asks: How do you put a valuation on team contributions for previous positions? I have noticed that many CV advice articles have many suggestions on “quantifiables,” eg: Increased sales by £/$xxx, or yy%. If a person has worked as part of a team effort (e.g. large aerospace company) [...]

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