How should I present time off work due to injury or illness on my CV?

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) estimates that over 28 million workdays were lost due to work-related ill health in 2018. If you’ve had to take time off work for health reasons, it can be difficult to know how to present a gap in your CV and what you should or shouldn’t disclose to a
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Are Millennial and Gen Z women really that different?

Understanding the position of women in the workplace is in itself a daunting task, given large variation by region, country, and industry. Understanding attitudes surrounding females in the workplace is even more complex, due to changing perceptions and biases. Comparing these for Millennial and Gen Z women seems impossible, yet this article attempts that very
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Demystifying the Hidden Job Market

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Sometime last year I looked at my LinkedIn profile and realised that I have only got the job once in my lifetime via an application process!  That was a revelation!  This does not mean that I am terrible at applying, it means that (without knowing it) I was tapping into the ‘hidden job market’ and
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