Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 - Job Advertisement, Job Boards, career change, career transition, cv help, cv writing, job application, job application rejection, job search, job seeking
Job Application: employer direct
As a recruiter, of course I would always prefer that as a job seeker you come to me over going to an employer to find a job. I get paid a fee for vetting out the unsuitable job applications, and reduce the time an employer takes to fill a job.
But I actually [...]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 - cv writing, tutorial
CV Writing: toasters?
What always surprises me when reviewing Professional CV’s – either as a recruiter or from candidate inputs to our free CV Review service – is how when people are CV Writing, they don’t consider how they are presenting themselves. If they considered how they would buy toasters, then perhaps they would make more [...]
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 - CV Tips, cv help, cv writing, job application
CV writing to win the job!
James, a job seeker, asks: what’s the best way in CV writing to win the job?
In answer:
Simply, read the job advert:
Read the job advert. Ignore titles, look at the details of what the require in Skills, Qualifications and Experiences and the salary: can you meet the minimum SQE requirement; is [...]
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Friday, November 27th, 2009 - Professional CV, career change, career management, career transition, cv help, job application, job hunting, job search
Quality Job Applicant
As an engineer, it always annoys me when scientific words are miss-used, particularly in marketing applications. For instance, the word quality. As a recruiter, I often hear employer clients say “Thank you. That was a quality job applicant.” Where as actually, if they said anything else, I would see that as failure to [...]
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009 - CV format, IT Jobs, Professional CV, cv writing, employment
IT Professional CV
The IT Professional CV is the instrument by which many IT Professionals will advance their career. It therefore requires an amount of attention and effort to create the right document
However, many of those we see in review in our Professional CV Help service, suffer the same old problems, and resultant job application to [...]
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