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Linkedin – Is it the end?

Wednesday afternoon, twiddling my thumbs, playing with google advertising, doing some business “housekeeping”. Exciting is not going to find its way anywhere near that sentence. To break up the monotony I  decided to head over to Linkedin for some inspiration, after all I had not been on my profile page for quite a while, and I

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Laszlo Bock SVP People Operations at Google

The worst CV mistakes, according to Google’s HR chief

Google’s chief of HR, Laszlo Bock, says he has personally viewed more than 20,000 CVs in his career, so it’s fairly safe to assume he knows a thing or two about what makes a good, or bad, CV. Bock, who heads People Operations at Google, recently shared with LinkedIn followers the most common mistakes he

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Sir Alex Ferguson announces retirement: A Manager CV that will never be surpassed?

Sir Alex Ferguson will retire at the end of the season, Manchester United announced today. The most successful manager in English football history will bow out after the West Bromwich Albion game on 19 May and join the football club board. Announcing his decision to retire, Sir Alex Ferguson said: “The decision to retire is

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Paris Brown Twitter Remarks Cost Job

Paris Brown – The things kids say

Paris Brown, forced to resign from her employment as Britain’s first youth police commissioner, will be remembered for the added dubious distinction of making choice remarks on Twitter in what were still her formative years. Apparently. Although the word on the “street” is that quite a few choice remarks were made in the last 6

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Executive Stress

[blockquote align=”center” cite=”Paul Thomas, Partner, Grieves Pryce”]Is your career trying to kill you? I have included this article because of the pertinence of the subject matter. As a business we find that an ever increasing number of people that we talk to are suffering from stress. Sometimes recognised, sometimes ignored but always debilitating. Paul Huljich,

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