Monday, January 18th, 2010 - career, career coaching, employment, job application, professionalism, recruitment

Employment: Blue Monday? According to the Daily Mail and half the “intelligentsia” press, today is Blue Monday: the most depressing day of the year. They quote: If you think life is a grind and you’d rather be doing anything other than going to work, you’re not alone. Today is officially Blue Monday – the most [...]

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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 - CV Tips, Professional CV, career change, career management, cv help, job application, job hunting, job search

Serious CV advice James asks: I’ve got quite a serious problem regarding my last place of employment on my CV, because I was dismissed. I worked at a bank from November 2008 to March 2009. This is the first job listed on my CV. Previous to that, I worked for a marketing firm from May [...]

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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 - career coaching, career planning, employment, job search, professionalism, qualifications

Career Planning As we return slowly over the next eighteen months to an economy which is creating more jobs than it is shedding, and unemployment starts to fall, in the world of employment we will see two issues return to the table: the shortage of skills within the market place, resulting from reduced birthrate the [...]

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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 - CV Tips, Job Advert, cv writing, job application, job search, tutorial

Marketing Employment Charles asks: How would you effectively apply “pull marketing techniques” to a job search? In answer: Personal pull marketing gets into the realms of personal branding, to which Dan Schawbel is one of the leading writers. But, for the “average Joe” job seeker, I think personal branding is probably a step too far: [...]

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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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