Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 - Blog, job search, job seeking

Job Search: Can’t find jobs and too many jobs There are two types of job seekers who I know are failing in their job search: Those you can’t find any jobs Those who are applying for more than 20 jobs per week, after 4 weeks or more of starting their job search The problem with [...]

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Thursday, February 25th, 2010 - job application rejection, recruiters, recruitment

Why recruiters reject you As a recruiter, it some times surprises me when job applicants and job seekers complain about being rejected by recruiters. They some how think that we are a personal service, and therefore should always care about them, by: Acknowledging their communication Always calling them on the telephone, no matter how they [...]

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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 [...]

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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 - Job Advertisement, job application, job offers, job search, recruitment, tutorial

More than one job offer It is quite typical in a job search, that having made multiple job applications that you will receive more than one interview, followed by more than one job offer. The question of the job seeker then becomes not how do I get more job interviews but how to handle multiple [...]

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Friday, December 4th, 2009 - career coaching, construction jobs, cv writing, economics, education, employment, professionalism, recruitment, unemployment

Job Centre: tools or techniques, but no jobs Since the start of the recession, and climbing unemployment figures, the focus of the media has been on two key economic issues: How quickly are the unemployed numbers rising? When will the economic recession end? We know from past data and recessions, that the first won’t stop [...]

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