Monday, December 7th, 2009 - employment, job application, job offers, job search, job seeking
Job Application: reference check
Tracy, a Life Coach, asks: What do recruiters and HR Professionals use to check references of job applicants? I am trying to determine how to best advise my clients when listing references and am curious to know the opinions of those doing the checking. What do you look for and is there [...]
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009 - CV Tips, How to Write a CV, cv, cv template, cv writing, how to make a cv
How to write a Professional CV
The art of How To Write A Professional CV is about information structure to communicate to most effectively to the reader. Simply, how do you put the candidates details down on two sheets of paper to match the job advert?
There are two parts to answering the CV writing question:
Sections
Word structure
This [...]
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Monday, August 31st, 2009 - Job Advert, career management, career transition, job application, job hunting, job search, professionalism, recruitment
Job Application Statistics
Today, I want to show you a chart I hope as a Job Seeker or someone undertaking a Job Search that you will never forget when completing a Job Application. Why? Because every day this chart shocks me, and its why as a recruitment company we came into the Job Applicant side of [...]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 - Article, CV Tips, Personal Profile, cv help, employment, job search, recruitment, tutorial
Job Search Secret
I thought today, it was about time, that I told you the successful job hunters secret.
The problem is, is that it is not much of a secret; it certainly is not that big. It is just that what it is in not actually implemented very well.
But if I wrote a headline that said [...]
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009 - CV Tips, Job Advert, employment, job application, job search, job seeking, recruitment
Job Search: job titles or job descriptions?
When undertaking a Job Search, what is the first thing you look for in reading Job Adverts? Right, the Job Titles. You are looking for equal or better position, and hence the Job Title comes first in your Job Search.
Do you look beyond that? A bit of prestige and [...]
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