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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Friday, April 17th, 2009 - Article, Professional CV, candidate, career change, career coaching, career transition, job application, job search, job seeking, jobs board, professionalism, recruiters, recruitment, unemployment

Job Search photo credit: emme-dk As a job seeker, do you measure the progress of your Job Search? Measured over a fifty year period in many different economies and countries, the average job applicant will apply for between eight and ten jobs using their own self created CV/resume, in return for one physical interview. In [...]

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Friday, August 8th, 2008 - How to Write a CV, NGO/NFP, career transition, contract negotiation, credit crunch, cv, job application rejection, job hunting, job offers, resume writing, social networking, software

Salary Negotiation photo credit: a.drian Ron, an educator, asks: I would like to know why recruiters and HR Professionals measure the desirability of a job applicant by salary history? I can think of several very good reasons for salary history to be among the most unreliable measures of employee desirability. Here are a few: I [...]

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