Posts from February, 2012

Giving God as a reference heads the list of CV gaffes as revealed by jobsite Careerbuilder.co.uk. Other clangers include a candidate who listed lion taming as a hobby, another who wrote their CV in rhyme, one who used a photograph of somebody else and one applicant only gave their name and phone number with the [...]

Members of a not-for-profit networking group in Market Harborough are celebrating the group’s second anniversary this month (February). The Working Breakfast group has met every Wednesday morning at theAngelHotelsince February 2010. During that time, members of the group have passed over 3,000 leads and generated over £280,000 worth of new business together. The independent group [...]

Controversy about the government’s use of ‘unpaid’ work experience programmes to help the unemployment into work has continued unabated. The government believes that the cycle of no work experience and no work can be broken by government-led schemes, however opponents argue that forcing the unemployed to take up work experience opportunities with employers or lose [...]

Over the past 12 months I’ve seen a lot of talk in various discussion forums about the poor service that people receive from 3rd party recruiters (recruitment agencies). Whether the person is a candidate, a client, or both; One aspect where nearly all the “complainers” have their arguments flawed is in their broad assumption that [...]