Job-Seeking Basics 2: Make Your CV Look Nice (Seriously)

Regular readers will know that before we got all excited and migrated (oh, and did we mention upgraded) the blog, we started a series called The Golden Rules of Job Seeking in 2009.
We argued that – in the face of a tough economic climate, increased competition and the plethora of constantly changing, confusing and sometimes [...]

A Fresh New Look. And jobs. hints. tips. advice.

So, how do you like our new look?
It’s taken us a while, but we’ve finally given the blog a nice new server to run on and a nice new skin to sit in. There’s still a few things we want to do to tidy it up a little bit (the Idealpeople Live [...]

This week, we’ll mostly be looking for…

This morning, Idealpeople towers saw the birth of something exciting. Our Operations Manager insists on calling it “Strategic Communication Exchange Morning”, although the sane amongst us have come to know it as “Coppock’s Coffee Morning” (named, like all great things, after its founder).
It was a mutual exchange of in-office information: a whirling mass of [...]

The End is Nigh?

Who can believe it’s June already? 2009 – that’s two thousand and nine – has been at the very best a topsy-turvy one and at the very worst a downright difficult one for anyone involved in recruiting in any way, shape or form. If we were in government, we’d describe it as “challenging”: [...]

How to use LinkedIn to find a new job

We’ve been meaning to write on the subject of LinkedIn for ages. In fact, if we go back through our mixed-bag of “draft” articles for the site, we can find at least six instances of articles we started, and then gave up on. It’s certainly something missing from our recent writings.
Help is at [...]