Canadian Real Estate and Facilities Management company BGIS has pulled out of a deal to buy a large percentage of Carillion public sector contracts. The contracts were centred around hospitals, education, transport, emergency and transport. In the announcement that came Thursday 08/03/2018, it stated that “certain closing conditions have not been met.” “While we are […]
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Social Media & Your CV Another year passes, and the collective might of social media and LinkedIn have still failed to consign the CV to the graveyard. It seems that now, more than ever, that the CV is seen as a focal point for candidate engagement, with LinkedIn and Social Media profiles providing supplementary information,
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Being insecure about your CV can cause a lot of hand-wringing angst, procrastination, and analysis paralysis, (worthy of its own entry in Wikipedia no less). Maybe you need a professional CV, but just in case you think you don’t, let’s look at why not and why this is wrong; in general this can be divided
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Professional CV Format Our Professional CV format has been updated on the Professional CV Sample page to the current Professional CV layout that we recommend. There has not been a vast amount of change made to the classic CV example, just small formatting tweaks. The page continues to display our classic Professional CV format example,
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(Reuters) – The chief executive of French oil major Total, Christophe de Margerie, was killed when his private jet collided with a snow plough as it was taking off from Moscow’s Vnukovo airport on Monday night. De Margerie’s death leaves a void at the top of one of the world’s biggest listed oil firms at
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BBC News Article The bald truth is that most companies are pretty bad at recruitment. Nearly half of new recruits turn out to be duds within 18 months, according to one study, while two-thirds of hiring managers admit they’ve often chosen the wrong people. And the main reason for failure is not because applicants didn’t
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The scene: CV sift day – when we crack open the machine that gathers applications and look inside, hoping to spot diamonds amongst… I like to think of myself as human (post first coffee AM). As a human reading a CV (I make this point to avoid a comparison with an applicant tracking system), I
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Recruiters could, and are seeing increasing numbers of CVs from a different perspective, and it could be detrimental to the intended career move of the individual. It transpires when reading a CV that the first review of the detail a recruiter makes is cursory, and a skim for relevant experience to the post applied for.
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Keeping your CV up to date is something that people tend to think of then forget or procrastinate over before forgetting. Then it happens, you spot the “dream job” or feel/know that you cannot continue in your current role. You blow the dust of the CV, and add a quick update, then possibly show it
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Do you need a Social CV, Professional CV or even an Executive CV presence on the web. Both questions pose an interesting dilemma especially for those that have not really been interested or seen the need for creating a presence on the social networks to date. What should you do or importantly, what must you
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