Robert Scoble, the A-list blogger, shares practical advice on how not to apply for a job:

1. Include only an attachment and don’t write anything in the body of the email.
2. Include a misspelling.
3. Apply for a job which you are clearly unqualified for (it stands out like a sore thumb).

1. Arrive on time, but not too early: If you are invited to an interview for 9am say, arrive between 8.45 and 9am, no earlier. You might inconvenience the staff who are meeting you: it’s just as stressful preparing to interview candidates as being interviewed yourself! So if you arrive early walk around outside to clear your head and get some fresh air.

First impressions are critical during the hiring process.

In fact, many executives said they form an opinion about hiring a candidate within 10 minutes, despite spending nearly an hour in the actual interview, according to a recent poll by Robert Half Finance & Accounting.

Sama Dubai, the property unit of Dubai Holding, has begun work on Tunisia’s biggest investment project, a $25 billion real estate development expected to create 350,000 jobs, a senior executive said.

“Today we announce the start of work on the first stage of the ‘Mediterranean Gate’ project which includes 16 buildings worth $1 billion,” Farhan Faraidooni, executive chairman said on Thursday.

Proposals to introduce a licensing scheme for all teachers in the country are welcome and long overdue. For too long the variable standards of teaching have been tolerated by parents and school managements alike, thereby producing equally variable results among pupils and students. Now it is planned that teachers, supervisors and principals from kindergarten to Grade 12 will be given professional training.

In order to combat the increasing global competition for skilled employees, a growing number of firms in the UAE are attempting to brand themselves as excellent places to work.