A guide to how to deal with technical skills in your CV – and a sneak preview of our upcoming, complete guide to tech CVs.

We’ve been reading a lot about Graduates recently. And with good reason too, for some sources are saying that this year is the worst year to be a graduate looking for a job in absolutely ages.
Why? Well, because whilst the number of positions on graduate training schemes has been cut by as much [...]

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 [...]

Despite some of the industry’s best efforts to convince you that the heart and soul of recruiting is changing, and that on-line systems and Social Media are slowly changing the very nature of the way recruitment works, the retention of the CV at the very heart of recruiting suggests otherwise. CVs are still king.
It’s [...]

As these troubled economic times continue to bite, we’re seeing much increased volumes of CVs here at Idealpeople towers – and as usual, some are brilliant, most are OK and a few are neither. Regular readers will have read our three-part CV-advice series on the blog, which we’re now condensing into one, downloadable document. [...]

We’ve mentioned this before, but an article on the BBC website has reminded us of an important message about CVs and the information people put in them.
According to the article, a phoney employer’s website was set up by iProfile with the backing of the Police and the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC), and a job [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 I’m looking [...]

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 [...]