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This issue of Skill Up! focuses on a variety of HR roles and responsibilities.

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HR professionals can play a key role in the future of a company. They often help to decide who is hired — and who is fired. This issue of Skill Up! focuses on a variety of HR roles and responsibilities.

News: Head-to-Head food special

If you have to live on a strict budget, even small increases in the price of essentials such as food can be a cause for concern. Reports have shown that food prices have risen significantly in the past year, in particular in the UK.

In a job interview, be careful which words you use that start with "self"!

Describing yourself and other people (2)

Many words to describe people and their personalities start with “self”. However, not all of them are positive. In a job interview, for example, you should be very careful about which ones you use. Increase your vocabulary by doing our short exercise.

Describing yourself and other people (1)

A guide to questions

Be prepared! Don’t let difficult questions leave you speechless in an interview. Here are some of the most common questions asked in job interviews, along with possible answers that you can adapt to your own situation.

Keep it to yourself

As an interviewer over the past 25 years, I have never knowingly employed someone just because they were a man (or a woman), good-looking, young, white, middle-class, heterosexual or able-bodied. But maybe I did unknowingly.

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Face-to-face interviews

Do you want to make a good impression in your next job interview? Quite often, you’ll be introduced to two or three people. Remember their names, and use them, especially when saying goodbye. Read more tips.

How to ask questions in job interviews

More and more managers are interviewing across national borders — for recruitment, appraisals and exits. Would you know how to word job interview questions in English?

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Interviews: no lying

Normally, if you are caught telling a lie during an interview or on your CV, you wouldn't be offered a job. If the lie is found out later, you would normally be fired. So why do people lie?

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