Monday, March 1st, 2010 - CV Writing, Professional CV
St David’s Day Sale!
As we are a Welsh based organisation, it seems only appropriate that we have our first day around and celebrating St Davids Day!
St David’s Day
Saint David’s Day (Welsh: Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant) is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March each year. The [...]
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 - CV Writing, Executive CV, Executive Recruitment, Job Search
Executive CV difference
photo credit: ind{yeah}
An Executive CV on quick glance may look very much like a standard CV. Most who looked at it a second time would notice the better layout, the nicer font, and on picking it up the slightly heavier paper.
However, the key difference in the Executive CV is to be found [...]
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Monday, May 11th, 2009 - CV Writing, Executive CV, Job Search, Jon Interview
Executive Job Interview
photo credit: Nils Geylen
There are many that claim to be of executive level or executive calibre, but there are some simple tests which a recruiter or HR professional will apply to assess which level of management or executive capability the job applicant has.
Executive, much like any high-value perceived word, is often over [...]
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009 - CV Writing, Executive CV
CV Length
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Jeannie asks: What’s the optimal CV/Resume length for a long-tenured employee seeking a senior VP position in a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company? I’m not really in the career development field, but many of my clients ask me career related questions. Can you bring me into the loop? I assume recruiters and [...]
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009 - CV Writing, Education, Qualifications
MBA equivalent
photo credit: Maria Keays
strong>Russell asks: How do you present “MBA-equivalent training and experience” on a resume? I don’t have an MBA or graduate degree, but I do have formal and informal education plus work experience that compares very favorably to MBAs from top schools and even PhD (so I have been told by [...]
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