Monday, January 25th, 2010 - career management, contract negotiation, employment, recruitment

Better pay negotiation: talent, risk and leverage There has been a lot of debate recently over pay levels, specifically that of bankers in light of the 2008/9 financial crisis. Over the weekend, Goldman Sachs announced that their average worker gets paid £305,000 – think about it, as that includes receptionists, security staff, cleaners, etc, as [...]

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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 [...]

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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 - Professional CV, career management, degree, economics, employment, job hunting, job search, qualifications, recruitment, unemployment

Graduate Trainee Recruitment The life blood of economics and industry is – people. Unfortunately, as people both get older, get ambitious – and in part by a process where by organisations re-brand people as “staff” – in most organisations, there is a continual need to replace and add to people numbers. This is termed recruitment. [...]

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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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Saturday, May 30th, 2009 - IT Jobs, career change, career management, career planning, career transition, construction jobs, cv help, economics, education, employment, project management, qualifications, recruitment, redundancy, unemployment

PrinceII Training photo credit: 24seven Communications With all the bad press around at present with regards the economy, and resultant unemployment, it did surprise but didn’t shock me when I read this week that 1 in 10 employers facing a skills shortage. Why is this? One of the reasons is that school leavers are no [...]

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