Your CV will be all a company or agency knows about you when you apply for a job, so you need to get it right. Just IT, the training and personalised recruitment agency for graduates and professionals, has revealed the results of its six-week study to help people improve their CVs.

Starting up in business can be an exhilarating but daunting decision. But before you make the jump to self-employed or to setting up a company, it's important to know the legal pitfalls and make sure you get it right from the start.

Emma Jones, Editor of homeworking website www.enterprisenation.com, recommends one tip for ambitious home business owners looking to grow the business but not wanting to move out of home; focus on what you do best and outsource the rest.

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When I left school (some 35 years ago!), I took my career advisor’s advice, pleased my parents and trained as a Nurse. I started to work my way up a career path which, at that stage, looked promising, safe and secure.

Some 30 years later, disillusioned by ever-increasing imposed change and the fact that I was no longer able to do what I had first entered my profession to do, I came to the decision that there had to be a better and less stressful way of working.