Friday, September 18th, 2009 - CV Tips, candidate, career change, career management, cv help, cv writing, disciplinary procedure, employment, job application, job search, legal

Employment Dismissal Sarah asks: I am looking for work after employment dismissal, and need some help. I was dismissed from my last job as I didn’t meet the targets, was making mistakes as a result of being stressed, and was late on two occasions. So, in summary, I think that has also gone against me. [...]

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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 - CV Tips, Job Advert, cv help, cv writing, job application, job hunting, job search, qualifications

Would I Lie to You? Often I find in our InBox and Postbag, as well as on the forums we contribute to, that some of the most commonly asked questions from Job Seekers are about how far they can in their Job Search actually lie on your CV or lie on your job application? In [...]

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Friday, August 21st, 2009 - Article, Social Media, career management, employment, job application, job search, tutorial

Social Media: screw or support your career? The social media revolution is being termed by some as the second industrial revolution. Facebook is now effectively the forth largest country in the world, although it is still smaller than China’s QZone at 300million; and it only took the iPod to reach 50million users in 3years, as [...]

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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 - Professional CV, cv security, employment, job application, job search, legal, professionalism, qualifications

Qualifications: James Bond? The world of spying and that of employment rarely cross, but it occurs to me that today many spies are far more exposed thanks to the ease of verifying qualifications. When to do so successfully now definitively needs the power and authority of a national government, why do a number of job [...]

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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 - CV Tips, cv help, employment, job application, job search, regulation

Employment and Cancer A few things in the world of employment are pretty clear right now, just by looking at the declining birth rate and the fact that in most western countries, there are more people over 40 than under 40. Hence, in a few years time, there won’t be enough people aged 18-21 with [...]

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