Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

This posting started out being entitled 'Joining The Ranks Of The Long-Term Unemployed' to mark my year without a full-time job.  Ho...

As regular readers know, since the start of June, I have been unemployed.  My unemployment benefit based on my national insurance contributi...

The 'X Factor' is one of those programmes that even if you have never watched an episode you are aware of it through the cultural ri...

As regular readers will know, I have recently been applying for jobs.  Having been made redundant twice in a year, I have been able to consi...

As regular readers know, I have recently been applying for jobs of all kinds in the hope that I can find work before I run out of money and ...

As regular readers will know for the second time in 12 months I am unemployed.  Having received a far better redundancy package this year I ...

Back in the 1990s I was travelling on a train from Waterloo, I think going to Surbiton. There were two businessmen in their forties talking ...

While the internet is littered with advice on how to perform at job interviews, there seems to be very little advice to those actually runni...