Friday, October 30th, 2009 - cv help, cv writing, job application, job search

Job Application: Unpaid Wages and HMRC! Penelope, a shop worker, asks: What should I do? Should I put this on my CV? I worked six months for a shop. The guy in the end wasn’t paying taxes and stole my money. I found out that he hadn’t even registered his company with the revenue so [...]

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Thursday, October 29th, 2009 - CV Tips, CV format, cv help, cv writing, job application

Employment Gaps Sam, an Assurance Associate at PWC, asks: My last date for an employer was August 26. Can I put on my CV that I worked from Sep 2007 to Sep 2009 as the dates? Since I worked pretty much all of August, is it OK to have these these dates on my CV? [...]

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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 - career coaching, career management, career planning, career transition, cv help, job search, job seeking

Solving Job Search Depression In this economy at present, it is a common situation amongst job seekers: getting depressed due to the lack of results in their job search. We shouldn’t be surprised that many do get depression during their extended job search, but what does surprise me is that when I talk through their [...]

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Friday, October 23rd, 2009 - Interview Questions, Telephone Interview, interview, interview techniques, job application, job search

Telephone Interview Tips The Telephone Interview is the second most likely place a job seeker will be rejected in a job search. Having got through the CV sifting exercise successfully, and shown on paper that you have the required communication of skills, qualifications and experience, the job applicant now has to both prove that the [...]

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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 - employer, employment, job application, recruitment

Lush Cosmetics Jobs I was having a look at my Google Reader the other day (great tool for the job seeker), and found this question about applying for a job at Lush Cosmetics: Creative ideas for job application? So i went into town today looking for a job, i went into this place called Lush [...]

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