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Networking Made Easy or Easier

You know you should be networking. You’ve heard most people land jobs this way, and yet, you dread it, avoid it or give up when you don’t get the results you are looking for. If these are your feelings toward networking, you aren’t alone. Most people dislike networking, however, your career success is dependent on…

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7 LinkedIn Profile Pictures You Must NOT Use

We’ve all seen terrible LinkedIn profile images. We know which are good, bad, and which are horribly flawed. We all know what to avoid…or do we? Profile photos on LinkedIn are crucial for your personal brand. It’s also helpful when you’ve built a strong LinkedIn profile. To help you, here is a list of seven…

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9 Steps to Becoming a Great Speaker

Whether you work in recruiting, sales, HR, or anything else – you’ve probably been told that public speaking is one key to success. What’s, that is the mere thought of being a public speaker freaking you out? You’re not the only one. Having to go in front of an audience to deliver a speech is…

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Do You Have What It Takes to Be a CEO?

What makes up a CEO? Do you have the right education, experience and personality traits to match the big bosses? Brighton SBM has put together an infographic for you to find out… Takeaways: Harvard has produced the most CEOs. Richard Branson – CEO of Virgin – was a dropout. Education isn’t always key! 97% of…

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How to Get Hired in a Digital World [INFOGRAPHIC]

With the internet and social media shaping today’s society, social recruiting is the hot topic. We become more and more globally connected, hence the need to be extremely careful about what we put online. Internet made it easier to find job offers, but as the visibility of companies increased, so as the number of potential…

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How Social Networking Can Boost Your Career

Traditional methods in searching for employment opportunities involved many time consuming consultations with CV agencies or browsing broadsheet newspapers… In the current time frame the key method is social media. Social media is part of our daily life with over 1 billion people registered on Google+ and over 300 million business professionals use LinkedIn. More and…

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Job Search Psychology: 5 Steps to Positivity

Abraham Lincoln once said: “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or we can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” These were some of the greatest words ever spoken – how we look at things can completely change our perspective of them. There are so many things that we don’t even realize we do,…

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What NOT to Wear to Your Next Job Interview

Interviews are all about first impressions and what you wear can go a long way in telling people who you are before you’ve even started speaking. You don’t have to spend a lot of money on your outfit, but putting in a little extra effort to choose the right attire can help you in the…

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How to Make a Great First Impression at the Interview

It takes just seven seconds for someone to evaluate you when they first meet you. In this short amount of time the other person will form an opinion about you based on your appearance, body language, demeanour, mannerisms and how you are dressed. These first impressions are very hard to reverse or undo and that…