- CV Advice, CV Tips, Job Application, job hunting, LinkedIn, Social Media

LinkedIn: CV/Resume Killer? I have seen a lot of posts and commentary around recently saying that the CV/resume is dead, and long live your LinkedIn Profile. Now as a Recruiter and Professional CV Writer, was I ever going to agree with this? Well yes, in part, but the simplistic headline doesn’t tell the whole truth. [...]

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- LinkedIn, Marketing

Just revise your LinkedIn Profile? We are often asked to “just revise my LinkedIn profile,” but many potential customers are disappointed when they first see the price: pretty much the same as our CV Writing prices. I have learnt through some bitter experience that actually “just writing a LinkedIn profile” takes a lot more work [...]

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- Find a Job, Google CV, I Need A Job, Job Application, Job Boards, LinkedIn, Social Media, Video

How to set up a Social Media based Job Search On many occasions, the first disappointment for any employer who receives a job application is how inappropriately the CV and whole job application is aimed at their job. Generally this is due to the candidate simply doing just “click to apply” and not worrying to [...]

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- Blog, LinkedIn, Social Media, social networking

LinkedIn Search: finding and connecting I was going to post something else about LinkedIn today. But after receiving so many spam-like messages from various covert internet marketers over the past few weeks, and discovering that a leading  Internet Marketer is now saying to his followers that “there’s no money on Facebook, so get to LinkedIn [...]

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- jobs board, LinkedIn

Job Boards versus LinkedIn: which one gets you employed quicker? Always when I first speak to a new job seeker, they are set on action that they think will result in them getting employed quickly. Most often their first action – after dusting off an old CV – is to upload it to a jobs [...]

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