It’s a fact that shocks some jobseekers: you should change your CV to suit every single job that you apply for. In a tough jobs-market, applications will be weeded out ruthlessly and guided straight into the shredder. Put yourself in their shoes: imagine you are a manager that has advertised a position at your firm. […]
You can be kept waiting for interview for a while, especially when the interviewer is running behind schedule after a long day of meeting candidates. I have had the unfortunate experience of this. My interview was the final scheduled appointment of the day and, running late, my slot had drifted twenty minutes. Of course, I […]
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the tips and techniques used to ensure that the search engines can find content online. One element of this is using the right language to connect to people conducting online searches – putting the right keywords onto the website is essential. The same should be true of your CV. Make […]
With the passing of Steve Jobs it is impossible to measure Jobs’ contribution to modern life. There are detractors that push Jobs’ damage to competition (compare Apple’s closed software ecosystem to Android’s open platform). Nonethless – to paraphrase President Obama – a vast amount of people found out about Steve Jobs’ death on devices that […]
Now how you gonna act?! One of the common questions that people who have experience in body language often get is “How should I act at a job interview?” My response is that you should not act at all! When you go to an interview you would expect that the person interviewing you would be […]
As you browse through the CV templates you have pulled in from the internet and pore over cover letter examples there is one thing that you’re going to have to be clear on: the language you use. Many people pull their hair out with this. Simply starting a CV can feel nightmarish. Of course, someone is […]
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