The IT CV, where do I begin and where do I end? And there it is in the proverbial nutshell. IT professionals need to have a CV that can run to the length of a telephone directory. Listen carefully, you are very, very wrong. What you need is a Professional CV that is 2 or …
The school of hard knocks and the university of life may be a couple of clichés but don’t scoff too much. Ponder for a moment your own experience and career. Subtract the lessons and what do you have left? Nothing much. Maybe that degree that had nothing to do with your career path? A smattering of …
I thought I would reiterate some comments from an article that we posted on the old blog a few months ago. The article came from the BBC Newsnight Job Market Mentors and the thrust of it was around how Public Sector employees, amongst others, can learn to survive in the real world, sorry, I meant …
It’s simple, to be considered the leading applicant for a new post you will need a great track record of success. True, to a point. Some will tell you that you have to show how you managed an organisation and increased margins while lowering overheads. You will also hear a raft of other obvious statements …
It’s an abomination that Victor Frankenstein would be proud of. If the parts are put together incorrectly, much like Victor’s early efforts, it will die, a quick and horrible death. It is, of course, poor CV grammar and the incorrect use of they’re, their and there. To make this quick and easy to understand I …
There it is folks, the glittering prize. Land yourself a roll with the FTSE Elite 100 and you could be earning a cool (average) £2.7 million. IDS claims that the poor (ahem) Directors’ pay packet (more like payload) rose by 47% in the last year. This means Fatcat fans, that these tax evading rotters could quaff …
Excuse the dreadful pun in the title but do you know what the parse test is? If the answer is yes than I imagine your CV is well formatted and easily read (parsed) into a recruitment database. If, on the other hand the answer is no, then you might want to look carefully at your CV and …
Have you taken control of your Job hunting or left it to chance? I would love to be able to say to you that you can just click a mouse button and send your CV to hundreds of recruiters or employers then just sit back and wait for the offers to role in. Unfortunately this …
1. Tailor: Produce a core cv and then create other versions that are tailored for specific roles that you apply for. 2. Errors: Use the grammar checker in MS Word or Google Docs(free). Spelin and poore gramer will wrek youre chance of sucess! 3. Structure: Format the CV and be consistent with your technique throughout …
I’m not going to go into too much detail on this for the moment but just throw the idea in the air and see how many upward and forward looking individuals catch the theory. Work Self Efficacy, which has its roots in Self Efficacy a construct of Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory. I had parked …