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You can tell your blog is doing OK when readers start asking you questions )
We’ve had one this week asking us whether non-professional experience counts for much on a CV. It seems that this particular reader has been quite busy at home doing open-source development work that has nothing to do with his […]

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Last week saw an interesting security breach of a different kind, and one which raises some questions about the integrity of on-line CV databases.
Totaljobs suffered a pretty heavy-sounding security breach. It appears that someone had set up a fake website, stole their branding and then bashed an e-mail out to as many recruiters out […]

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Our MD, Nick Tooley is famous for many things. In particular, he’s famous for liking to rant extensively about a variety of things that get on his nerves. More privately though, he just loves finding the world’s best Software Testers.
Sometimes, his two passions conflict with each other, as his latest…ahem…rant shows:
So […]

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We spent some more time with the fantastic people over at the University of Northampton’s Career Service this week. It’s great to see a service which is both so visible within an academic insitution, and so effective in dealing with a very wide variety of enquiries. And we’re delighted to be able to […]

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And you thought we’d stop after the Boomerang Blog?
Shuriken: (Wikipedia): (手裏剣; lit: “hand released blade”) is a traditional Japanese concealed weapon that was generally used for throwing, and sometimes stabbing or slashing an opponent’s arteries.
Cover Letter (Wikipedia): Employers may look for individualized and thoughtfully written cover letters to screen applicants who are not sufficiently […]

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Recently, we’ve had a fair few candidates asking us about the effects of having had quite a few jobs over a short period of time on a CV.
This is an interesting question.
So here’s the quandry: you’re currently in a job you hate. Getting up in the mornings fills you with dread. […]

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Welcome to Part Three of tips for writing a killer CV.
Now you’ve read part one and part two and you’ve taken as many adjectives out of it as possible and added benefits to your features, you’re ready for the next step: setting your CV free.
The “normal” way of doing this is to go […]

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Building on something we mentioned in the first instalment of our CV tips - in which we made a point about how CVs are taking a little bit of stick for being unfit for their purpose, we thought we’d open some dialogue on Video CVs. To the unitiated, a Video CV is a presentation of […]

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Welcome to Part Two of our CV writing guide. In case you didn’t catch it, part one is here.
Before we begin, let’s talk about selling for a moment. There are many different ways of “selling” a product or service. We’re generalising a little, but a bad sales pitch generally follows the structure of get in […]

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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be bringing you all some sensible strategies for putting together killer CVs.
CVs themselves are under a bit of fire at the moment - there’s an emerging school of thought that says that they are the worst way of selecting someone to hire (or even of distinguishing between candidates who […]

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