Friday, February 19th, 2010 - CV Advice, cv help, cv writing, employment, job application, job application rejection, recruitment, tutorial

Job application: rejection in your CV? When job seekers make a job application, and are rejected, many think that its probably in their Professional CV that the problem lies. But, on reflecting on a variety of statistics and personal experiences, I will happily tell you today that the problem is probably not in your CV. [...]

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Monday, December 7th, 2009 - employment, job application, job offers, job search, job seeking

Job Application: reference check Tracy, a Life Coach, asks: What do recruiters and HR Professionals use to check references of job applicants? I am trying to determine how to best advise my clients when listing references and am curious to know the opinions of those doing the checking. What do you look for and is [...]

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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 [...]

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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 - CV Tips, How to Write a CV, cv examples, cv help, cv writing, how to make a cv, job application, job search, recruiters, recruitment

Best CV = Lying? When we are answering Job Application questions, either for clients or on forums, a significant number of them deal with what is the Best CV; and a second category deals with what is acceptable CV lying? A thought therefore occurred to me: are the Best CV’s written by Liars? Before we [...]

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Monday, August 24th, 2009 - Job Advert, career management, cv help, economics, employment, job application, job interview, professionalism, redundancy

Explaining unemployment in a job interview? Haydn asks: I have been unemployed for nearly 6 months now. I finished university in 2007 and have only managed to get 2 fixed terms jobs (one for 6 months and another for 4) with gaps in between them. The problem is that in the last 6 months I [...]

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