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Surveys recently have suggested that we could be in for another twelve months of redundancies before the economy really starts to turn around. Unemployment could reach 3.2 million, maybe more. Redundancy is a possibility for most of us, and the question has to be, how do you protect your job in a climate like this? (more…)
The first thing we all do when starting to look for a new job is to write or update our CV. But how often do we stop to think about the effectiveness of what we are doing? CVs have been around a long time but are they really that good? Might there be a better way of communicating who we are and what we offer to prospective employers? (more…)
After several years of expansion and recruitment, large parts of the public sector are now going through a period of restructuring, with many people being made redundant. In part this was planned; reshuffling the organisational structure of public sector bodies is nothing new, but this time the scale and speed of the restrucutre has been profoundly affected by the recession. And of course, as with all organisational change, the biggest impact will be on the people who work there. (more…)