In my life, I have gone blonde, ginger, blue-black, highlighted and I then got back to brown (and yes, I was awfully ugly with ginger hair, but you know, I was 14 at the time and I didn't understand anything), ...

To be saved, certain things need to be left behind. You cannot carry them all away with you, you need to forget them for a while - and it's best if you keep everything for yourself - only for yourself -  beca...

© The Shortlisted - 2016 It felt just like a complete disaster. Not a proper disaster like a typhoon, just a personal one. Let's just say that no one (including myself) had a vague clue regarding what the ...

I catch this guy in his own house, just to make sure he wouldn't escape. He worked for a short period as a recruiter and then he left. For obvious reasons, I won't report his name. We were thinking of using a f...

A while ago, I had a fight on Twitter with a recruiter (would you believe?) who wouldn't stop publishing crap material aimed at making job seekers feel guilty. You know, stuff like “Didn't you get the job? It...

There are certain men out there that - as soon as you meet them - they make you immediately want to bump into them when you are desperate for driving directions: Andrew Bloch is one of them. Calm, confident, cl...

The job market is a market. I mean a proper one. The rest is decoration. Stuff like fulfilling, proud, gym membership, good company, free coffee and fresh fruit, team spirit, happy hours, casual Friday, rew...

Exactly like most people think that doctors and teachers know absolutely everything (even road directions), lots of people also believe that an employer is someone who knows. I am not sure where this belief com...

Once upon a time, a girl was trying to fix her broken heart by helping refugees and asylum seekers get a better life in general, and a decent job in particular. When she started volunteering as a CV writer and...

I know it sounds cheesy and fashion-bloggy, but when I launched this website and the CV Writing business, I could have never predicted that so many people would trust me and my advice for their careers. Until ...

Out of my 120 job interviews in 99 companies, I received 21 actual job offers, which means that 78 times I didn’t receive any. Most of the times I was not offered a job, I asked them why. I quite forced myse...