Mark Walton

When most people start looking for a new job, they tend to consider the activity as one complete process Successful job applicants, however, will see it as three distinct phases: Job searches Resume (curriculum vitae) preparation Interviews The aspect that the casual applicant will spend the least time and effort on is job searches – yet logic dictates that this should be the area that gets most attention

Too many would be job applicants get overly worried about the quality of their resume (curriculum vitae) Although I’m not advocating a sloppy document, in my experience, too many people spend a disproportionate time on it

Depending on which expert you believe, up to 95% of communication is non-verbal So if just five per cent represents the words, why do so many interviewees rely on this single aspect to convey what they mean and understand the interviewer

Many aspiring authors rush into the process of finding an agent and overlook a common pitfall – the rogue agent Agents work hard for their money – or at least good ones do

There are many tricks and tips to help writers either beat the block or to ensure that they keep in the groove One of the tools that I use and I borrowed it from my day job – is music

The phrase is well worn, ‘Everyone has one book in them’ Countless New Year resolutions fail because aspiring novelists fail to put pen to paper and too many conversations that start, “How’s that book you’ve been planning to write,” end in, “I haven’t got round to it yet

At the risk of spoiling the joke, I’ll start with the punch line – there is no such thing as a unique plot There, that’s got it out in the open

Writing offers an opportunity to do something that filmmakers and artists can’t You can allow your reader to get into the head of your characters

Many writers will tell you that they are great at research They can spend up to six months prior to putting pen to paper – yet few actually bother to study the market they’re writing for

The weather is so much more than how wet you’re getting It’s amazing how many writers overlook the weather as a useful tool in both setting and also in telling the story