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Do you (or anybody) have any recommendations for a professional CV writer? My CV has gotten me stuff in the past but it definitely wasn't written to handle bots....

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I think I should do the next one wearing a tinfoil hat. Just to be sure.......

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Probably some marketing twonk has invented a new thing to train recruitment consultants on. One of them spoke to a friend and now everybody is doing it. Not sure how I'll respond if anybody else tries it on. It was interview practice I suppose so not totally pointless......

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I picked up Spike CD by Elvis Costello the other week and listened to it for the first time. There is a track on there called Tramp the Dirt Down that explains his feelings towards that 'necessary' politician....

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I had a fantastic copper-bottomed steel pan that has done me fine but three years ago we moved into a rental that had one of those induction hobs. Copper bottom stays nice and cold on that POS

Am running with a 'green pan' at the mo. I probably did too much high heat in the early days...

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Who did he think it was? 2008 is so long ago in this dizzyingly-fast-moving world. I wonder if he was anything like close when he wrote that book back then?...

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Pre-interview 'screening interview'

I had a technical screening interview with the agent a couple of weeks back 'because their client was on-boarding a couple of starters next week' and didn't have time to take more interviews for the next contractor. It was recorded with them asking me...

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So we are down to either previous contacts getting you the sniff of a role or the probably hollowed-out shell of the recruitment world where they have let everybody go because there really are so few roles coming through....