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How Do You Know if the Job is Worth Applying For?
Making a job application is a time consuming activity these days. To stand out in this employers market when there’s lots of competition requires research, time and commitment. So deciding whether to...
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How to Prepare for Your Interview with Body, Heart and Mind
‘To fail to plan is to plan to fail’, one of my favourite quotes and no where more true in the area of interviews. But what should you be preparing? Mind, body and heart! Prepare with your mind You...
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In my time as a senior recruiter I have sat through no small number of presentations. Many of them left me cold. I wondered if the people giving them really understood the purpose of the exercise i.e....
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How to Find a Public Sector Job
In the good old days if you wanted a job in the public sector you did one of three things; for admin jobs you looked in the local paper, for professional jobs you looked in a professional journal and...
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How to Get Started As A Networker in 2013 [9 Key Principles]
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7 Phrases Employees Want to Hear from their Boss
I was coaching a real ‘high flyer’ the other week and she felt that the trust between her and the owners of the business she runs (in the UK) had been broken. Part of the reason was that they had not...
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How to Get Your CV Right [9 Top Tips]
When applying for a job, it’s important to get your CV right when you send it off. Here are 9 top tips to make sure your CV is perfect: Know What the CV is For: First thing you need to know about your...
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Are You Just a Job Title? Work and Identity Explored
We spend more time at work than we do sleeping, eating, resting, playing, or with our families. Work, for most of us, is the defining aspect of life and thus of our identity. When someone asks us ‘what...
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How to Take Care of Yourself When Out of Work [Top 3 Essentials]
When people lose their jobs they need to do three key things in order to maintain their health and well being. Some people don’t want to work but for others unemployment can be a difficult time and...
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How to Answer ‘Why Do You Want This Job?’ in an Interview
“So why do you want this job?” Answering that question should be really easy! Often the answers are: Well, I want a job… I want to work… I want to pay the mortgage/rent…. I want a promotion, it’s a...
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How to Give Feedback on Poor Performance as a Manager
Is constructive criticism the same as feedback? I don’t think so – but others may beg to differ. I avoid using the word criticism as much as I can (except in a technical ‘literary criticsm’ way) as it...
View ArticleWhat Job Seekers Need to Know about Recruitment Trends in 2014
2014 is the year of the horse – get galloping! This is the Chinese year of the horse, so for those of you looking for career success: what does it hold for the job hunter? This is a quick canter...
View Article7 Important Tips to Making Your Job Application Stand Out
Recently, I read ‘Why the Cover Letter is Dead‘ – it suggested that no one has time to read these things and that if you want to stand out from the crowd in your application, you need to phone up the...
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When people lose their jobs they need to do three key things in order to maintain their health and well being. Some people don’t want to work but for others unemployment can be a difficult time and...
View ArticleFirst Impressions – Is What You See What You Get?
Sometimes you really do need to look twice or three times to see the person behind the tattoo or the lion in the sheep’s skin. It takes just one-tenth of a second for us to judge someone and make our...
View ArticleHow to Alienate a Recruiter #WisdomWednesday
Should recruiters be a candidate’s friend? After all, there are no fees if they can’t fill the jobs, so they should treasure you and be delighted to hear from you on any occasion. And what a recruiter...
View ArticleHow to Get Your CV Right [9 Top Tips]
When applying for a job, it’s important to get your CV right when you send it off. Here are 9 top tips to make sure your CV is perfect: Know What the CV is For: First thing you need to know about your...
View ArticleAre You Just a Job Title? Work and Identity Explored
We spend more time at work than we do sleeping, eating, resting, playing, or with our families. Work, for most of us, is the defining aspect of life and thus of our identity. When someone asks us ‘what...
View ArticleHow to Take Care of Yourself When Out of Work [Top 3 Essentials]
When people lose their jobs they need to do three key things in order to maintain their health and well being. Some people don’t want to work but for others unemployment can be a difficult time and...
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