The focus for all my articles so far has been on preparing the nervous interviewee for their first steps towards that dream job, but what about if it’s the other way around, and it’s the interviewer who is nervous about the daunting challenge of trying to pick the right candidate from a series of half hour conversations

We all know what the perfect job interview candidate is supposed to be like – well qualified, immaculately presented, and most importantly – confident Working in the travel recruitment sector, I’ve heard a fair share of interviewers fed up of dealing with brash, arrogant candidates – enough to know they’re seldom welcome

When reading travel industry job applications, I find the covering letter is often treated as an afterthought… a formality only included because convention dictates it should be so That’s actually the wrong way to think about things, and here’s why: The CV cover letter is the first thing your contact at the organisation will see, and you don’t want it to be the last