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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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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Is it YOU Or…? Interview Success Demystified

I see a lot of clients who get discouraged by constant rejections in the job application process or even get through to interview stage but there are no offers. The sad thing is – they start thinking that something is wrong with them, whereas essentially the reason is something completely different: 1)   There is a miss-alignment
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