Sir Alex Ferguson will retire at the end of the season, Manchester United announced today. The most successful manager in English football history will bow out after the West Bromwich Albion game on 19 May and join the football club board. Announcing his decision to retire, Sir Alex Ferguson said: “The decision to retire is …
Deloitte, the leading business advisory firm, has announced plans to significantly expand its Belfast Technology Studio, a move which will create an additional 177 jobs over the next 3 years. The jobs will be supported by funding from Invest Northern Ireland and will bring the total employed in the Belfast Technology Studio to 201. The …
Principal level artist Matt McCulloch of Crystal Dynamics has seemingly let slip via Linkedin that Crystal Dynamics (famous for the Tomb Raider Game Franchise) are in the early stages of development of their next project. Other indicators have been referenced such as the advert on their website for a Senior Artist. The interesting feature of …
A manager CV or in this instance an interim manager CV – would you want your CV to reflect your performance of your last interim role? Should you be concerned? Alex Ferguson, arguably the most successful British football manager of all time has stuck the boot (unavoidable pun) in to the Chelsea Manager Rafael Benitez …
Do you need a Social CV, Professional CV or even an Executive CV presence on the web. Both questions pose an interesting dilemma especially for those that have not really been interested or seen the need for creating a presence on the social networks to date. What should you do or importantly, what must you …
Jaigris Hodson of Ryerson University Toronto has heralded the death of the Resume/CV once more. Hodson has suggested that we should all embrace a digital platform as the CV will soon be (if it isn’t already) firmly on the extinction watchlist. Jaigris is quite rightly informing her pupils that to succeed in the job market …
From the Linkedin Blog: Linkedin has released an update to it’s iPhone app – which looks to organise your contacts in a “smarter way”: Have you ever wished for a personal assistant who reminds you when your colleagues are celebrating new jobs or birthdays? Or have you wanted to quickly pull up the last conversations …
The #twesume and how to condense your Resume or CV into 140 characters or less has been doing the rounds for quite a while but seems to be gathering a head of steam again. For those of you that have not climbed aboard the twitter band waggon, the twesume is a way of using twitter …
Philippe Dubost, a French Web Product developer was a little frustrated with the concept of sending out a CV and secondly how to be noticed. He considered himself to be talented and had a winning personality, but the job market did not seem to show the interest he had hoped for. Instead of withdrawing into …
I felt the need to share something from my daily Quora email digest. This answer came from a Gent called Tom Allen and I reference it here because it could quite possibly be not only one of the funniest answers I have seen, but it is also clever without being completely glib. The Question: During …