Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 - candidate, career change, credit crunch, job application, tutorial, unemployment

Job Scammed! photo credit: B Rosen In these difficult economic times, it seems that there are a number of scamers and thieves around who are not only happy, but more than willing to extract cash from unsuspecting job seekers. What we have noticed on both the recruiting side as well as the Professional CV side [...]

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Saturday, May 30th, 2009 - IT Jobs, career change, career management, career planning, career transition, construction jobs, cv help, economics, education, employment, project management, qualifications, recruitment, redundancy, unemployment

PrinceII Training photo credit: 24seven Communications With all the bad press around at present with regards the economy, and resultant unemployment, it did surprise but didn’t shock me when I read this week that 1 in 10 employers facing a skills shortage. Why is this? One of the reasons is that school leavers are no [...]

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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 - Blog, employment, government jobs, minimum wage, politics, qualifications, recruitment, redundancy, sunday thoughts, unemployment

Skills in the Recession photo credit: Alex France As a bit of a politico – I love the cut and thrust of the debate, and the fact it affects every part of our lives – I was quickly captivated by the Opposition debate in the House of Commons yesterday, entitled Skills in the Recession. To [...]

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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 - Article, credit crunch, economics, employment, government jobs, immigration, job search, politics, recruitment, redundancy, unemployment

April 2009 UK Employment Data photo credit: C-Ali I normally write about UK Employment data at about this time of the month, but have delayed this months thoughts on UK employment prospects as the Bank of England held their monthly conference today. If you are going to comment about employment, then in reality it doesn’t [...]

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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 - Article, career management, construction jobs, economics, education, employment, salary negotiation, unemployment

UK Employment Data photo credit: El mundo de Laura Amid the who-ha of Alastair Darling’s 2009 UK Budget – which burdened every man, woman and child in the UK with £12,000 of debt until at least 2017 – there was the release on Tuesday of UK Employment data to February 2009. In summary, it wasn’t [...]

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