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110 Job Hunting Resume, CV and Interview Tips

110 job hunting resume cv and interview tips from Jim Bright Here are some tips for Job Hunting, Resumes, Interviews, and Testing for 2011. As an author of job hunting books that have sold way in the 100,000s in the USA, UK, Australia, China, Vietnam, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Japan (you get the idea), with titles like Amazing ...

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Shift: Transform you career by SHIFTING

The world is changing, you are changing, change is inevitable (except from a vending machine). So the question is what are you doing about it?  Maybe you need to get into SHIFTWORK.  I have re-defined the term "Shiftwork". Shiftwork is the work we all have to do to manage, survive and thrive in the face of ...

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Oppositional thoughts Volume 3 Amusing and lateral views on Career and HR Advice

Here is Volume 3 of my Oppositional Thoughts...They are designed to gently puncture some of the slightly precious life advice out there, and to complexify overly simplistic homilies, that make life appear a lot simpler than it is in reality. Earlier volumes of Oppositional Thoughts can be found here (volume 1) and here (Volume 2) Oppositional Thoughts..You can ...

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Strangling Animals? Golf? What your hobbies say about you…

Paul Simon began "have a good time" with "yesterday it was my birthday...". Well that was in the 1970s and you couldn't get your LED watches to work properly, the batteries kept running out. So we can forgive Mr Simon for being a day late with his birthday...probably waiting for Arty's card to arrive. Anywhere where ...

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The Seven Myths of Stress

Here are a range of different everyday experiences. How might you feel in each of these circumstances? You are having your family to stay for Christmas Your partner of the last twenty years announces they are leaving you for your best friend (you might feel relief!) You go to hospital for a major and risky procedure (trying to ...

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Career development better than sex or an alternative?

Career development has a yearly low point about June, but the good news is we are on an upward curve, until about September.  After that, if you are a Career Development professional or careers author looking at launching a book, forget about it and take a long vacation till January.  I am basing my advice ...

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Leaving a job: Telling people where to stick it and helping them remember where

Leaving a job: Telling people where to stick it and helping them remember where I was in Woolworths the other day and decided to try out an alternative career as a check out chap using their self service system. I came away mystified and marveling - mystified as to how to open those flimsy plastic bags ...

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