- career change, Job Application, Social Media

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 at [...]

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- 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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- Networking, Social Media

Do you have a dead cat bounce network? Every week for the past 36 months, someone has applied for a job or we have a job seeker who needs a Professional CV, and one of their core problems that leads them to our door is the fact that they have what I now call a [...]

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- Google Plus, Job Application, job search, Social Media

Google Plus and Job Search There is a lot of talk about Google Plus at present, the new social media thing from Google that will – according to some – not only rival Facebook and Twitter, but eventually kill them. Resultantly, particularly when it has grown to the size/scale of Twitter in less than four [...]

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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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