Saturday, September 26th, 2009 - career management, employment, legal

Employment Contract Law Sue asks: In May 2008, I joined my present employer and signed a regular Contract of Employment. The hours were scheduled Monday to Friday, 9-6. In March 2009, they asked me to work shifts, promising that soon a new position would have been made available for me, that suited more my personality [...]

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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 - career management, employment, graduate cv, job application, job search, recruitment, retail

University degree, no job interview Brandon asks: I have a university degree, yet no one will even call me for an interview. What am I doing wrong? I moved from the US last year. I have UK residency and have been trying to get a decent job for the past few months. I was working [...]

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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 - career change, career management, career transition, economics, education, professionalism, project management, qualifications

How can I get into Project Management? Andrew asks: After more than 3 years as a online journalist/copywriter, I want to make a change and retrain as a project manager, but I’m not sure how to go about it. Any ideas? I studied Politics at Uni (got a 2.1), and I have an MSc in [...]

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Sunday, July 5th, 2009 - CV Tips, Interview Questions, career transition, cv help, discipline, employment, job hunting, professionalism, redundancy, sacked, tutorial

Resign or Redundant? Kirsty asks: Is it better on CV to resign from a job, or to be made redundant? I am considering changing my job but I think I might be made redundant in the next three months. Do future employers prefer to see ‘resigned from previous job’ or ‘made redundant from previous job’ [...]

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Friday, April 10th, 2009 - Article, career management, career transition, cover letter, credit crunch, employer, employment, job application, professionalism

Interview Assessment Day photo credit: പ്രതീഷ് പ്രകാശ് Boris asks: I’m in a Sales / Marketing role at the moment with a very good track record throughout my 6 year’s employment with my existing employer. Due to the current economic climate, the Company is ‘downsizing’ with me and my colleagues having to re-apply for our own [...]

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