Archive for November, 2008

Book Review: The New Economics by W. Edwards Deming

This great little book acts as an introduction and summary to Deming’s ideas: his ‘system of profound knowledge’ the purpose of management removal of numeric targets and incentives the Shewhart Cycle for learning and improvement Variation the Red Bead Game control charts A highly recommended read because …. ( amazon.co.uk | amazon.com )

The best book on writing a CV: Pitch Yourself by Bill and Michael Faust (Book Review)

I promise, I shall make this my last post on CVs and recruitment for a while. (see notes, and more notes) But I just wanted to mention the only useful book I read about CVs when researching the CV book market. When I read this book I gave up on writing a CV book because [...]

More notes on writing a CV that a hiring manager wants to read

So the last post described what I wanted. Now some tips about how I read a CV. So make sure you write your CV to support my reading of it. Contrary to some advice – I don’t really mind how many pages the CV has. I care about the relevancy of the information and that [...]

How to write a CV that a hiring manager wants to read

This post started as notes for a book. “What would be better?” I thought “In this time of recession, than to prey on peoples fears of losing their job and write a book on how to write a CV.” And then I did the research and read through about 15 books on how to write [...]