Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 - CV Tips, career management, career planning, cv writing, education, employment, qualifications, university

College dropout

Steve, a professional engineer, asks: What is the best way to explain dropping out of university in your CV? Even though I’m well on my way to gaining a degree through my job, and have vocational qualifications, I still feel that my unfinished degree looks bad on my CV.
I dropped out because I made [...]

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Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 - Professional CV, career management, degree, economics, employment, job hunting, job search, qualifications, recruitment, unemployment

Graduate Trainee Recruitment

The life blood of economics and industry is – people. Unfortunately, as people both get older, get ambitious – and in part by a process where by organisations re-brand people as “staff” – in most organisations, there is a continual need to replace and add to people numbers. This is termed recruitment.
When faced [...]

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Monday, June 29th, 2009 - CV Tips, How to Write a CV, Professional CV, career change, career management, cv writing, how to make a cv, professionalism, tutorial

Senior job title

Daniel, a Chief Software architect, asks: I was having a debate with my divisional director, about adding the word senior to a job title. He questioned the value, concluding that it doesn’t mean anything any more. I prefer a title of Chief Architect, what do you think?
In answer:
My most common answer – it [...]

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