Dusting off an old CV When new job seekers presently come to the market and start a job search, most of them think that employment is easy: Get old CV, and update Go to jobs boards, apply Get employed! Now, except for the fact that i the western world we have some of the highestContinue reading “Dusting off an old CV”
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How Much Job Search Advice should Recruitment Agencies give?
How Much Job Search Advice should Recruitment Agencies give? Its an age old question for recruitment agencies, but How Much Job Search Advice should Recruitment Agencies give job seekers? It’s an even more pertinent question in these times of high unemployment, when simply job applicants out number the number of available jobs. But already weContinue reading “How Much Job Search Advice should Recruitment Agencies give?”
Job Search is a process of learning by rejection
Job Search is a process of Learning by Rejection I have been wanting to write this post for a while, but after an experience in the past few weeks, don’t think that I can put off not publishing much longer. Why do Good Job Seekers get Rejected? I started on this path by trying toContinue reading “Job Search is a process of learning by rejection”
Employment Klout?
Employment Klout? So, you want to get a job, and according to some new age hack writing from an Apple iPad in Silicon Valley, a number calculated by a three-year-old start-up corporation will affect your employability? Have you just lost a job according to your Klout score? The latest journalist to take a turn atContinue reading “Employment Klout?”
What learning to fly taught me about job choice and career happiness
What learning to fly taught me about job choice and career happiness! If you have read this blog is much detail, then you will know that I have little practical faith in a psychometric test as a way of selecting potential future employees. This doesn’t mean that I dismiss psychometric tests. If you have 1000Continue reading “What learning to fly taught me about job choice and career happiness”