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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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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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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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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