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You don’t have to hate your job

Looking for work after school or college, trying to get back on your feet following redundancy, searching for a new job or even changing career direction is not easy in this tough economic climate, but I have written a book which can help. Called ‘Applying for a job – the essential guide’, it’s a straightforward guide with lots of practical advice about how to stand out from the crowd...

Ever an editor

My career as an editor started pretty early. At age seven, in fact. And I’ve got Prince Charles to thank for it, in part. It’s 1980 and The Prince of Wales had just published his tale of ‘The Old Man of Lochnagar’, a story he’d written eleven years earlier for his younger brothers, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, about the adventures of a hoary old fellow living in...

This is for you, Liz

I have a friend, Liz, who is at home at the moment recovering from a bit of NHS scalpel-and-stitchery action, with only a stack of novels and tv box sets to keep her company during the day. Surprisingly, she also seems to have had the inclination to read my blog more than once, and has called me up to chastise me for not updating it more often. Ah yes, the prioritisation scales of the freelance...

I wrote a book. It can help you get a job

Looking for work after school or college, trying to get back on your feet following redundancy, searching for a new job or even changing career direction is not easy in this tough economic climate. But never fear, because I have written a book which can help. Called ‘Applying for a job – the essential guide’, it’s a straightforward guide with lots of practical advice about how to...