A guide for those who want to create an effective CV and use it to market themselves. It contains sample CVs and covering letters and interview guidance.

A guide for those who want to create an effective CV and use it to market themselves. It contains sample CVs and covering letters and interview guidance.

This collection of articles by IT industry experts explores the challenges IT professionals face when moving from a technical into a managerial role. The authors look at the skills required to scale the career ladder, the opportunities for training and development and how to progress from a first job in IT to CIO. Each article ends with a range of current resources and recommendations including blogs, books and websites.

Scoring Points is the compelling and dramatic inside story, told from a project point of view, of how the Tesco Clubcard was conceived, launched and developed. It explains in detail how Tesco collected, analysed and used customer data to become a retail giant, making customer loyalty marketing work when almost every other programme failed. By pairing its loyalty scheme with sophisticated information technology, Tesco set a new standard for knowing your customer.

The project management secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Project Management.Includes how to:• Deliver a successful project from start to finish• Communicate effectively with people at all levels• Manage changes and control scope creep• Identify and deal with risks• Work with common project management methodologies

The selling secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Selling.Includes how to:• Pitch your product to meet the needs of your customer• Use body language to build rapport• Negotiate and close the deal• Make your customers keep coming back for more• Develop new business relationships

Getting hired just got easierYou are about to discover everything you need to know about job applications and how to make them work. Starting on Sunday and going through to Saturday, you will learn the stages of a job application step by step so you build up a picture of what it takes to be successful. For many job applicants, what goes on behind employers' closed doors remains a hidden world but, by Saturday, you will have taught yourself how job applications are p...

It's a competitive jobs market and coming second will not get you the job. This revised and updated 2nd edition of How to Get a Job in a Recession provides practical advice with masses of free bonuses is an easy to follow, straightforward guide.It's like a one-to-one job search coaching session providing expert advice and a structured plan.This book will be relevant for you whether you are at the start of your career or a job changer who needs both a reminder of the basics ...

The Business Coaching Handbook reveals what business coaching IS, how to assess the shape of your business and what steps you need to put in place to grow a successful business. This book has been compiled for business entrepreneurs who have recently achieved the first goal of getting the enterprise up and running or, have been operating their own professional practice or business for a few years and now want to take it to the next level.

Richard Denny is the godfather of salesmanship' and author of the classic sales text Selling to Win . As an inspirational business speaker he has helped thousands of salespeople become high flyers. Now his vast knowledge and experience is distilled in this concise new title. Successful Selling Skills is valuable reading for both those new to sales and those who need to refresh their skills. In his distinctive, accessible style Denny analyzes the key aspects of selling, such as developing th...

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Write an Irresistible CV helps you to write and refine a CV that communicates who you are and shows off your skills, talents and all you have to offer.

A successful career move involves people matching their ideas, passions and goals to the needs of employers and vice versa. Full of practical examples of what works and what doesn't in the world of work, this book explains what employers need and how you can place yourself to deliver it. Whether you are looking for a new career or want to move to a different job, here you will find out how to know yourself, identify what you have to sell, structure your job search, target your CV, network ...