Many job interviews, no job offers

Monday, March 15th, 2010 - Blog, Interview Questions, job interview


Many job interviews, no job offers

Mary asks: I am a teacher, and am having no luck in landing a job. I am getting a good ratio of job interviews, but in 10 so far have not been offered one job. What am I doing wrong, what could I do to improve my performance?
In answer:
Firstly, congratulations. [...]

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CV Writing: toasters?

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 - cv writing, tutorial


CV Writing: toasters?

What always surprises me when reviewing Professional CV’s – either as a recruiter or from candidate inputs to our free CV Review service – is how when people are CV Writing, they don’t consider how they are presenting themselves. If they considered how they would buy toasters, then perhaps they would make more [...]

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Professional CV Writing

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 - Professional CV, cv writing, employment, tutorial


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Social media job rejection

Friday, January 29th, 2010 - career transition, employment, job application, recruitment, tutorial


Social media job rejection

Have you ever been rejected for a job, through what your social media profile says about you?
Think not, then think again. Media research shows that 70% of employers now deploy social media searches on post-CV skimmed job applicants.
Social media recruitment
Finding your Google CV is normally done after the paper CV sift (making [...]

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Job Application: always think Job Interview

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 - employment, job application, job interview


Job Application: always think Job Interview

If there is one mistake that the majority of job applications make, it is focusing serially on their job application, over success in the final aim: the job interview
Why is focusing on the job interview a more successful strategy over focusing serially on:

Finding jobs
Job Application
Telephone Interview
Job Interview

The tendency to focus [...]

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