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Should You Include your Online and Tech Hobbies on your CV?

Paulette Kirwan — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:55:51 +0000

Drafting, updating and re-drafting your curriculum vitae is a process. It’s a process you will spend many hours on over the course of your life. It will also materially impact your career. These are all reasons why it is important you get the best out of it and make yourself shine.

At the same time, however, a CV has to be concise, with no more than two A4 pages as the general rule of thumb. With these two opposing requirements in mind, what place, if any, should your online and…

Support Your Family and Your Job Search

Juan H. Perry — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:50:54 +0000

While you are searching for the job you deserve, use the time to become an expert domestic money manager. Your unemployment benefits should last you at least 26 weeks, paying approximately 60 percent of your most recent salary. Prepare an accurate, up-to-date family budget, putting it all on paper in bold colors. Then, carefully, cold-heartedly sort essential expenses from discretionary spending, cutting extravagances, luxuries and indulgences. When you feel confident you have eliminated every needless expense, then work the following steps to effectively manage your finances while job searching.

Get…

How to Get Into a Digital Agency

James Buchan — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:21:19 +0000

Interesting, challenging and creative jobs may seem hard to come by these days. Horror stories in the media about rising unemployment levels, coupled with the fact that the vast majority of the population are looking at years of debt if they even consider going to university, makes it seem pretty daunting for young people trying to get a foot in the door somewhere.

Yet there is an area of business that allows people to use their education alongside personally gained skills to do something they enjoy, can feel good about…

Getting Ready for Your Most Important Job Interview

Selena Palazzo — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:54:47 +0000

No matter what you have on your resume, the thing that really determines whether or not you get the job is your interview. When you have an important interview coming up – the interview that could potentially make your career – you’re going to be nervous, and you need to be prepared. Here’s how you can get ready for the job interview of your career.

Familiarize Yourself with the Employer

You absolutely must learn everything you can about your potential employer before going into the interview room. If you really…

7 Best iPhone Apps for Job Hunters

Kathryn Brookes — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:48:31 +0000

Looking for a job can be quite an issue. It gets quite tedious to keep posting resumes and CVs to companies which don’t look at them and call-back.

But if you own an iPhone, then this should be the end of all your worries; for every cloud has a silver lining and you just found yours. Take out your beloved iPhone and start tapping! Here is a list of the top 7 Apps that you must have if you are looking for a job:

1. LinkedIn – The best in…

The Right CV for the Right Marketing Job

Rick Wronski — Sat, 12 May 2012 12:43:35 +0000

It might go without saying but given that your CV is often the first contact you have with an employer, it’s vital that it gives the best first impression of you. You have a very small opportunity of making a lasting impression to a potential interviewer and with more people than ever now applying for jobs, you need to stand out from the crowd if you’re going to win the marketing job of your dreams.

The Tone

Many CV’s from even the most highly qualified and suitable of applicants are…

Don’t Let Your Boss Pick On You

Jocelyn Heist — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:32:06 +0000

Thought bullying was something that only children faced on the school playground? Believe it or not, a large percentage of adult Americans suffer emotionally, physically and mentally at the hands of those they work for. In a study released by the Workplace Bullying Institute, more than 35% of all employees in the United States have been exposed to some form of bullying.

Here, we address some common questions about bullying in a work environment:

What exactly is “workplace bullying”?

Workplace bullying occurs when a boss tactfully humiliates an employee. A…

How to Write the Perfect CV

Paulette Kirwan — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:11:53 +0000

There is no getting away from it; your CV is the most important document you will need to if you want your career to flourish.
It’s your foot in the door; your advertisement to the world, justifying why a hiring manager should give up an hour of their time to meet you.

The problem facing many candidates in this brave new world of online recruitment, job boards and social networks is how to stand out from the crowd.

For years we have been told that our CVs have to…

Chasing Your Dream Career

Kathryn Brookes — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:50:47 +0000

They say that if you can find a job that you enjoy then you will never work a day in your life, and actually this is very close to true – as if you really enjoy what you’re doing it’s quite hard to genuinely think of it as working.

In order to find a job that really doesn’t feel like work, you need to find a career that is something you really want to succeed in and do well in. This means picking a job that you really care about…

Pros and Cons of Social Media Job Searching

Juan H. Perry — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:47:00 +0000

A lot of job seekers today are using social media to help in their search. But have you ever considered the pros and cons of social media job searching?

While it’s true that the pros outweigh the cons in most situations, it’s still important to look at both sides and decide whether or not you should be using social media as a job searching tool. At the very least, considering the points below will help you avoid potential pitfalls while job searching on social media sites.

Pros of social media…