Monthly Archives: November 2010

When To Write A Cover Letter (Hint: Never)

Posted November 29, 2010 - By | 5 Comments

This is just a short post. I am writing it because I’ve seen one too many blog articles lately recommending an outdated and obsolete method of differentiation required of you in the job search – the need to write the Cover Letter. I’ll get ...

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The Cold Call Is Dead: Implications For Recruitment & The Job Search

Posted November 26, 2010 - By | No Comments

I was cold called yesterday. It was, it must be said, a brilliant effort from a charity fundraiser from World Wide Fund For Nature – polite, well researched and perfect in pitch & tone. It was almost a shame when I delivered the inevitable ...

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What Is To Be Done? Advice For The At Risk Public Sector

Posted November 22, 2010 - By | No Comments

When George Osbourne announced Comprehensive Spending Review last month the party line of the Coalition government was that private sector growth would absorb the estimated 500,000 pubic sector workers that will be lost due to the deepest public sector cuts ...

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The Future of Recruitment? Wise Man Say speaks to Matthew Brown, Business Development Director at Work4Labs

Posted November 17, 2010 - By | No Comments

Hello Matt, how are you doing? I’m great Wise Man Say. First up, thanks for pointing out the typo, don’t know how we missed it. We have development teams in the US and France and it got dropped between the two. I absolutely agree that we should blame the ...

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Personal Branding For The Job Search: Lessons From Hoxton Street Market

Posted November 15, 2010 - By | No Comments

Every Saturday morning, stallholders set up for business in Hoxton Street, selling household goods, bric a brac and the kind of end-of-the line clothes that you will only ever find in markets like these. Walking through the market this weekend, it occurred to ...

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