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 job search [...]

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Friday, September 25th, 2009 - Employment Reference, employment, job application, job search, references

Employment Reference Questions

Claire, a nurse, asks: can an employer offer you a job subject to reference, and then tell you they had “concerns” and offer a lower paid job? I had been doing a band 7 nursing position at a hospital for 18months, and saw an advert at another hospital for a full time band [...]

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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 - career change, career management, career transition, employment, job application, job application rejection, job search, job seeking, tutorial

Job Search Pain

photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography
As recruiters, all job applicants who approach us portray themselves as perfect and right – usually absolutely right – for the job we are advertising. Our role then is to test to see if that is true both functionally and well as socially inside our clients team.
However, as [...]

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