Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 - British Forces, candidate, career change, career transition, employment, job application rejection, job hunting, job search, job seeking, redundancy, tutorial

Job Search Jimmy asks: Desperately seeking advice, I am so frustrated beyond belief! I really cant understand it! I’m 41 ex British Army have never been out of work until now. I have sent my CV to so many companies, and yet they don’t even bother to acknowledge – WHY? I fully understand this as [...]

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Saturday, March 28th, 2009 - Google CV, Social Media, job application, social networking

Social Media photo credit: mandiberg Tony asks: I’ve just had an argument with one of my friends who works for the HR dept of her company for disqualifying a candidate, not because of his rich experience, great educational background or excellent references but rather the things she happened to dislike that were on his MySpace [...]

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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 - Article, interview, interview techniques, job interview

Job Interview photo credit: J-Duʙ As a recruiter, the one thing that is always a bit stressful in this job is when your candidates meet your client. It’s always stressful because I take pride in my work, but I know from the statistics that at best I will only get it right between 50% and [...]

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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 - Blog, career change, career management, career transition, employer, employment, job relocation, professionalism

Employment lessons As a Liverpool FC fan, it was disappointing but inevitable that Robbie Keane left Anfield yesterday. The papers today suggest it was a poor decision by manager Rafael Benitez, but a decision to move from one organisation to another is always a joint decision by both employer and employee – so 50/50 for [...]

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Monday, December 22nd, 2008 - employer, recruiters

Professional CV Bob asks: I’ve been in staffing and recruitment for almost 19 years (both contingency search and corporate) and am puzzled at the logic behind sending your resume to the CEO of a company. Unless the company is relatively small (say less than 20 people) and the CEO is, in title only, the Chief Executive [...]

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