Thursday, December 17th, 2009 - career change, career management, career transition, cv writing, employment, job application, job search, qualifications

Job Search: qualifications transfer Tauraz asks: I am a Overseas Qualified Pharmacist, but due to regulations in the UK, I cant practice as a Pharmacist. I completed a Masters degree in Business from a very reputed UK University and I have 3 months experience as a Territory Manager selling Speciality products (Vaccines-Hormones). I presently work [...]

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Monday, October 26th, 2009 - career management, project management, qualifications

PMP certification? Steve asks: How does one go about PMP certification? Basic steps please… In answer: We have blogged before about grants for getting Prince2 training and project management certification, but simply almost anyone can become a member of the Project Management Institute, so why not find a local chapter and join? The PMI recommend [...]

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Saturday, October 24th, 2009 - CV Tips, cv writing, employment, job application, qualifications

Cambridge graduate? Chin, the HR Manager for a Hong Kong based commercial organisation, asks: Some months ago, our company had a CV from an English man. This man was sent to a college of Cambridge University by RAF. He said he did physics course for 2 years there, which RAF tasked him in order for [...]

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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 - CV Tips, career management, career planning, cv writing, education, employment, qualifications, university

College dropout Steve, a professional engineer, asks: What is the best way to explain dropping out of university in your CV? Even though I’m well on my way to gaining a degree through my job, and have vocational qualifications, I still feel that my unfinished degree looks bad on my CV. I dropped out because [...]

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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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