A CV THAT WORKS FOR YOU
CV stands for Curriculum Vitae – meaning ‘course of life’ – and it provides a concise history of your education and employment history for prospective employers.
CV stands for Curriculum Vitae – meaning ‘course of life’ – and it provides a concise history of your education and employment history for prospective employers.
Do you feel overworked and underpaid? Well, you certainly aren’t alone. But before you start looking for work elsewhere; perhaps it’s worth asking for a pay raise?
The way you resign from your job can have a large impact on your future career – bungle it and you could be left with a bad reference. But, if you follow the proper etiquette, the impression you leave will stand you in good stead for years to come.
Hospitality is a widely used term that includes roles in hotels, cruise ships, airlines, restaurants, leisure centres and conference facilities. If you’re customer focused, the possibilities are endless if you can work well in a team, manage pressure and think on your feet.
We’ve created a CV template to help you
Creating the perfect CV can be a challenge. Not only are you are relying on two pages to convey your personality, skills and experience but in today’s economy you’re up against more competition than ever.
When you’re going for that all important interview it can be daunting to think about what tough questions you may get asked. Here are a couple of thoughts and scenarios to think through before your interview:
Q. Since our company underwent a 16-month restructuring programme, the whole dynamic of our department has changed. There have been several redundancies and promotions and as a result trust among us is at an all-time low. We feel like the survivors of war. Everyone seems to be out for themselves alone.
With almost every business and organisation in the country having its own website, there is an ongoing need for designers who can create well-constructed and effective websites to provide information. Many companies now trade over the internet; mail order companies, in particular, create large, sophisticated sites that complement their printed catalogues.
A career in marketing can offer you lots of possibilities for variety and interest. Any reasonably sized company or organisation today relies on marketing communications to get their message out to customers and it is one of the strongest sectors of the UK economy.
We’ve all had bosses who made our lives difficult: the chronic micromanager, the chatterbox who over-shares embarrassing details from his personal life, or the Houdini who magically disappears whenever you need her. How should you handle a boss’s annoying habits? We turned to the experts to find out.
Utilizing job listings, networking with people in your industry (and in other industries), and applying to companies you want to work at–these are all great ways to go after a job. But how can you make employers and recruiters come after you? We asked Career Rocketeer’s Chris Perry, a career-search and personal-branding expert, for five
Some forward-thinking companies use strategic workforce planning to identify and prepare for future workforce needs.
Tomorrow’s high-fliers put work-life balance before big pay cheques. Graduates looking for their first job are more interested in work-life balance, company image and career prospects than the initial salary that an employer offers, according to two new surveys.
Thirty years ago, I was fired with enthusiasm. Looking back, I know that if I’d stayed in that mismatched job, I’d have lived my life less fully and not grown in ways that serve me now. This is easy for me to say now, but at the time I felt angry, victimized and embarrassed. For
“Why am I not happy?” “Why is life a struggle?” “Why doesn’t work work?”
When the economy took a downturn at the start of the 1990s, my career — ironically, it’s headhunting — took a downturn, too. I have to admit I wasn’t ready for difficult times. But that rough patch was probably the best thing that could have happened to me. Today, amid another downturn, I’m sharing the
Older workers are easy to typecast because the myths persevere:
Only 25% of all positions are found through published and defined markets, such as employment ads, placement agencies and recruiting firms. Unfortunately, job seekers favor these markets even though they face less competition for the remaining 75% of jobs found through networking and direct unsolicited contact with employers.
he holidays can be stressful, but job hunting often compounds the problem. Well-intentioned friends and family can hover with questions such as, “Hey, Harry, did you get a new job yet?” As if the external pressures aren’t enough, your own internal thoughts, beliefs and feelings can drive you to distraction.