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?
In answer:
Honesty [...]

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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 - career coaching, career planning, employment, job search, professionalism, qualifications

Career Planning

As we return slowly over the next eighteen months to an economy which is creating more jobs than it is shedding, and unemployment starts to fall, in the world of employment we will see two issues return to the table:

the shortage of skills within the market place, resulting from reduced birthrate
the need for job [...]

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