Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 - Blog, IT Jobs, recruiters, recruitment

IT jobs board?
Chris, a systems analyst, asks: Do you know an IT job website that doesn’t involve going through employment or recruitment agencies? I am fed up of having to convince every agent I speak to that I can do the job – just want them to send off my Professional CV!
In answer:
I am a [...]

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Thursday, February 25th, 2010 - job application rejection, recruiters, recruitment

Why recruiters reject you

As a recruiter, it some times surprises me when job applicants and job seekers complain about being rejected by recruiters.
They some how think that we are a personal service, and therefore should always care about them, by:

Acknowledging their communication
Always calling them on the telephone, no matter how they applied for our advertised [...]

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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. But most [...]

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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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Thursday, February 11th, 2010 - CV Tips, Professional CV, cv help, cv writing, tutorial

Professional CV Writing: Horrors

Yesterday, we put up an article about Professional CV Tips, going through the major points of Professional CV Writing. One of the steps was to get some CV Help, getting three friend and making use of our Free CV Review Service to check through your CV before a Job Application.
Today, I thought [...]

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