What is Career Planning?

        

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:

        

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.

        

When writing your own CV it is important to remember a few key things that you should and shouldn’t do, many people make the same mistakes in CV’s and these basic mistakes cost you the chance of getting the interview.

        

You’ve been searching the internet looking for someone to read over your Curriculum Vitae and tell you whether it’s going wrong or whether it’s perfect, we all tell you we offer a FREE CV Review it’s a big part of our advertising methods.

        

To continue our last post Spotting Job Search Scams here are a few more types of Employment based scams you should be aware of:

        

This is not a new phenomenon but it is one that has started to hit the headlines again in recent days, because the scam artists are hitting more and more and innocent job seekers in the online job hunting market place are the prime target.

        

Your contract is so much more than a bit of paper with lots of small print. You need to read it carefully before you sign and if you don’t understand something, be sure to ask your employer. If you’re not careful, you could sign away some of your most important rights.