Friday, November 27th, 2009 - Professional CV, career change, career management, career transition, cv help, job application, job hunting, job search

Quality Job Applicant As an engineer, it always annoys me when scientific words are miss-used, particularly in marketing applications. For instance, the word quality. As a recruiter, I often hear employer clients say “Thank you. That was a quality job applicant.” Where as actually, if they said anything else, I would see that as failure [...]

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Friday, June 12th, 2009 - CV Tips, How to Write a CV, Professional CV, cv help, cv interests, cv writing, employment, graduate cv, how to make a cv, tutorial

Key Skills photo credit: Peter Rivera One of the key tactics to writing a job winning and Professional CV is to market your key skills, by putting them front and centre. Employers love job applicants who show them that they have not only the required skills for the advertised job, but also key skills for [...]

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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 - career change, career transition, employment, job application, job interview, recruitment

Recovering from poor first impression photo credit: rileyroxx Larry, a sales person, asks: I was recently in a job interview, and one of the people on the employers side and I seemed quickly not to get on. I have had this happen occasionally on sales calls. How do you handle the first encounter with a [...]

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