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What is Career Planning?

        

Hello;

        

This article may not be our normal type of directly related Careers Advice but we think it’s an important subject to raise, with all the issues in politics at the moment mainly revolving around expenses of MP’s whilst we have our personal views on that subject we don’t believe that the constant calls for a general election would be of any benefit to the UK economy or go any way to helping restore the UK jobs market.

        

And the answer is simple; when it’s full of pointless words that have no meaning or use. We are sent on average 100 CV’s a week for our free CV review service many of these CV’s are of a very high standard and only really need some minor corrections and changes to make those one or two all important improvements that can mean the difference between being invited for the interview and not being invited.

        

1. Your CV Has Less Than 30 Seconds To Impress Any Potential Employer

        

I know we recently ran a post on Choosing A Professional CV Writer but over the last week we have had a few questions emailed to us asking us how to avoid people who claim to be expert CV Writers, so we thought we’d put together this simple tip sheet on spotting the dodgy CV Writers out there:

        

Unemployment is expected to break the 3m barrier this year. It could get worse with Britain in the midst of a deep recession and the global economy in turmoil.

        

Victims of Britain’s jobs crisis are being duped out of thousands of pounds by dodgy training providers that offer worthless qualifications that carry no weight with employers. Retraining courses that claim to provide the skills and qualifications needed to secure a new job have become big business as unemployment has soared above the two million mark.

        

There are strict regulations covering the hours young people can work and the minimum age for working. These laws are in place to ensure young people of school age are protected, their health and safety is looked after and to prevent exploitation. The law states that young people may only do work which isn’t likely to be harmful to the safety, health and development of the person.