I was touched by a post on the HRThoughts blog by someone who had been caught shoplifting and was now living with the consequences.
Take a look at the post of the details. Living as I do in the UK some of the language is not clear to me in terms of the legal ramifications but the [...]
Before I start with any advice I want to remind everyone that there is a talent in writing job adverts – some are great and others are awful. Have you ever applied for a job based on the advert only to find that when the information pack comes it is not really what you understood from the [...]
Lisa at HR Thoughts posted a question from someone about the consequences of arriving late at an interview.
It is a cautionary tale about checking the details fully ahead of which might just be one of the most important meetings in your career.
But things go wrong – that’s life – and it’s often the way you handle them [...]
This article in People Management caught my eye.
I thought that some of these questions had long since been dropped. When I set out into the world of work in the late 70s it was fair game to ask a woman of my age
if I had a boyfriend
if it was serious
what kind of career he had
how soon [...]
(A bit of fun for the end of the week)
1 Apply for jobs for which you don’t have the experience requested in the advert but which you know you can do – then don’t make any link between the experience you do have an what they are asking for. It makes the hirer’s sift to [...]
