How the recruitment industry works is often a mystery to the job seeker. Individual agents can behave in ways which we don’t understand, seem counter intuitive and which leave us immensely frustrated and hostile to the idea of future engagement. Inside ...
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According to the oft quoted Albert Mehrabian study, communication is 7% words, 38% tone and a whacking 55% general body language. The implications for those on the job search are enormous – you’ve got to get your body language right in order to ...
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Having the right mental approach is crucial to success in the Job Search. And yet our minds often trap us into habits and behaviours that are deleterious to our goals. Here are 5 examples of mental approaches that work against your success in the Job Search ...
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The first thing to understand is that recruiters do not actually ‘read’ CVs. The precious document you’ve spent all weekend crafting into a masterpiece will most likely be given a 3 second review before the recruiter decides to keep you in ...
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We all know LinkedIn has become a crucial tool for the professional jobsearch. We know less well what recruiters actually look for when conducting profile searches. Here are a five basic ways to optimise your LinkedIn profile so that recruiters will look, and ...
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Recruitment Agents. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, if you’re currently in the job search, the chances are you are currently dealing with one of them. Don’t they have an inordinate amount of influence on the success or failure of your job ...
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Since Twitter and LinkedIn launched their synchronisation last year, there is a growing sense of inevitability about the deepening integration taking place between social networking platforms. As Scott Monty surmised in his social marketing blog, this is ...
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Being made redundant sucks. Just ask 1700 or so British Airways staff who are about to be canned from their jobs as the flagship airline ‘shrinks’ its Heathrow operations. That’ll be 1700 or so pretty pissed off people about to go through a ...
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LinkedIn. Social media for grown-ups, the job seekers best friend and the end of the road for the Curriculum Vitae as we know it. Following Dan Schawbel’s excellent piece Predict the End of the Traditional Resume Here in Personal Branding Blog last ...
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