Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 - career management, cv writing, job application, job hunting, unemployment
Unemployed Teacher
Claire asks: I’m unemployed and cant get a job. What do I do? I’m a teacher. I have two years temporary experience and due to cut backs in education have found it impossible to find anything. I’ve sent hundreds of CVs and driven to loads of schools. Starting to feel like rubbish about the [...]
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Saturday, March 28th, 2009 - Google CV, Social Media, job application, social networking
Social Media
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Tony asks: I’ve just had an argument with one of my friends who works for the HR dept of her company for disqualifying a candidate, not because of his rich experience, great educational background or excellent references but rather the things she happened to dislike that were on his MySpace profile. [...]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008 - career coaching, career management, cv help, cv writing, degree, education, qualifications
MBA equivalent
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strong>Russell asks: How do you present “MBA-equivalent training and experience” on a resume? I don’t have an MBA or graduate degree, but I do have formal and informal education plus work experience that compares very favorably to MBAs from top schools and even PhD (so I have been told by [...]
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Monday, October 20th, 2008 - cv writing
Jayson asks: I am a chiropractor, and I am looking to change careers. My educational background: Undergraduate 1989-1993 (graduated), Chiropractic College 1999-2003 (Graduated) with a Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.) degree. It’s the last graduation that’s making things difficult in this process. To make a long story short, practicing chiropractic is not for me, and I’d [...]
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Friday, August 15th, 2008 - Uncategorized
Janice asks: Can you provide me with information on Teaching English in the middle east? I am looking at Dubai and to teach english as a forgien in language schools to adults (TEFL/TESL). I am looking for any information such as qualifications, living conditions, names of schools, what kind of compensation packages to expect etc. [...]
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