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Being Honest on Your CV is the Best Policy

The winner of the BBC's reality programme "The Apprentice" faced a barrage of
criticism after he was hired by Sir Alan Sugar despite lying on his CV. Lee
McQueen beat 15 other high-flying candidates to land the £100,000 a year job
with the multi-millionaire business tycoon after a 12 week selection process.

Five Quick Tips to Improving Your CV

Five Ways to Improve Your CV

Need a pick-me-up to remind yourself how good you are, or are you simply keeping
all your options open and considering looking for a new job soon? Then it's time
to get your CV into shape. But what makes a good CV and how can you make sure
that yours is good enough to get you that all important interview?

Top 10 Most Annoying Colleague Habits

For the second year in succession, Injury Lawyers4U and Iceland have topped the
Marketing/TNS annual survey of the UK's most irritating adverts in the UK.
Injury Lawyers4U's unique selling point is that they use "real" lawyers as
opposed to the other kind, and the actor they use in the advert is none other
than Billy Murray -- famed for his performances as a dodgy copper. Mmm. And then
there's the Iceland Food adverts featuring the chat-mag's favourite -- and voted

Taking more Responibility in your Role

Today's workplace is competitive and cutthroat. With the recessionary pressures
growing, every worker is under previously unheard of levels of stress to both
prove their value and demonstrate their ongoing readiness to do more.

How to Handle a Bad Interviewer

In an ideal world, all hiring managers would be highly skilled at conducting an
effective job interview.  They would ask intelligent questions about your
work-related competencies and experience, while providing you with a solid
understanding of the company and open position.

Unfortunately, not all prospective employers are master interviewers.  If you
haven’t yet encountered a bad interviewer, you likely will at some point in your

Words to avoid in your CV

Creating a winning CV is a feat of strategy involving focus, wording, design,
and content selection. To achieve a career marketing document that wins
interviews, all areas of the strategy must be spot-on and consciously used in
the most effective manner. One of the most common mistakes job candidates make
when writing their CVs is the mistake of not paying attention to strategy and
word selection.

Job Hunting While Your Employed?

So you want to look around for your next career step but you are concerned that
your current employer will find out and give you an early exit? Confidentiality
in your job search is a reasonable concern and makes the way you approach
finding your next position all the more important. Confidentiality and privacy
issues in today's hyper-informative world are issues that should be taken
seriously.

What does my body language tell my interviewer?

It begins even before you say your first word. They’ll be sizing you up as you
walk across the room to shake hands. Be conscious of how you look and what
you’re doing, and try not to overlook the verbal and non-verbal signals you’re
sending out in the rush to parade your carefully prepared answers before them.

What should I do after my job interview?

It's very frustrating when you've been to interview – especially for a job you
really want – but then hear nothing for what seems like a lifetime.

Unfortunately, your work is not done once you leave the interview – in fact it's
just beginning. You can't simply sit back and wait for the job offer.

How should I approach a phone interview?

To save time in the early stages, some employers assess candidates by phone
before inviting them in.

There's nothing strange about this, it merely saves time and costs and is a way
of sounding you out before a more formal face-to-face interview.

As always, the key is to prepare for this as you would any job interview with a
clear understanding of your accomplishments, goals and strengths and why you are
applying for the job etc.

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