: About Me

I am a freelance writer specialising in careers, employmemt and workplace issues.

Since 2006 I have been the lead writer for the award-winning careers advice pages of Monster.com the UK's leading careers website. I am also the Editor of Welsh Recruitment Magazine and the UK's careers writer for the number one jobs website in the USA, CareerBuilder.

And I am a contributing author and careers expert for various publications including Job Hunting and Career Change for Dummies and Hobson's GET graduate recruitment.

My passion is ...

writing, running and Aussie Rules Footy (I play for Wales)

I know too much about ...

typers-cramp and chaffing

My parents always told me ...

tomorrow is an excuse, today is the opportunity

My childhood ambition ...

to be a teacher

My favorite memory ...

Liverpool knocking 5 past Everton...a fine day!

Why I write ...

to stop me from talking so much

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Tipping Point, Malcom Gladwell

My first job ...

selling corporate leisure packages for a hotel chain

My best moment ...

completing my first marathon after losing three toenails with severe blistering and chaffing (nice image, eh!?) in the process. It hasn't put me off - I have done a further six since then. Never, never give up!

My inspiration ...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes: "Life is too short to waste time on second-class ambitions".

Jobs & Careers > Resumes & Cover Letters Resumes: Tell the truth or face the consequences

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We're all liars, well at least half of us are according to a recent employment survey in the UK that revealed as many as 50 percent of all CVs submitted by job applicants in the last 12 months contained at least one falsehood. And a staggering one in five CV's contained significant inaccuracies or, to be blunt, lies. The most common lies included discrepancies about academic qualifications and accurate employment dates. Other included failing to declare directorships that could be linked to bankruptcies and other credit infringements. The survey of more than 3,700 CV's submitted by job app...

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