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.

        

We have been looking in to the whole area of Video CV’s recently and have come across many different websites offering this service some for free and others where you have to pay, but our question is are video CV’s actually any use?

        

In a time of worldwide economic crisis when thousands of people are being made redundant all over the world every day, we at The Career Engineer have started to wonder just how many people are still sending out CV’s and Covering letters to companies just on the off chance.

        

As the UK recession doesn’t seem to be planning to leave us anytime soon we here at The Career Engineer have started to wonder whether the traditional Recruitment Agency will be able to survive if the recession gets any deeper.