While references are not generally included on your resume anymore, the truth is that before you are given any job vacancy you will usually be asked to provide references to speak on your behalf. If you have been in the job market for awhile, you  ask the last people that supervisors or colleagues you have worked with provide a reference. MORE >>

I have been railing against grad school for a long time, and  I’m starting to believe that you should leave grad school off your resume if you are not working in the field you studied. Here are five reasons why putting grad school on your resume makes you look bad. Grad school on your resume is a formal announcement of a mistake. should know. MORE >>

Many MBA graduates go on to be managers, making the most of all the business, administrative and organisational skills they consolidated and built upon during their degree. However, no matter how well an MBA course equips you for a management career, the practical reality of management can often be very different from the theory. At Work Issues MB MORE >>

Top 5 Tips to Increase Productivity within the Office Staring at a computer screen all day can be tiring, and for many employees, 5 o’clock can’t come quick enough. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter what industry you work in, an office environment often lacks inspiration and can bring morale down. MORE >>

So you can imagine what state my eyebrows were in when I received a review copy of Successful Job Hunting in a Week – a new strand of the Teach Yourself series, published by Hodder Education. Job hunting – a full time job! If you’ve ever had to look for a job at any point you’ll know that this is a full time job all by itself. MORE >>