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 ….
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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 it demonstrates […]

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 […]