Search through millions of job board postings and classified ads? Check. Update your resume? Check. Fill out the online application? Check. Hit ‘submit’ and send your resume out into cyber space? Check. Hear back from your dream job? Nope. What happened?! We can only go through the above sequence so many times before we totally lose…
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Employee experience can seriously impact your bottom line. The Employer Brand Index gives you insight into what talent really thinks about your company.
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The 15 Rules of Modern Job Search
You probably don’t care how the job search is different today. What you do want to know are the new rules for landing your next job as quickly and painlessly as possible! Here is the new modern job search playbook: 1) Pain is part of the process: Get used to rejection and learn from it…
An interview is like speed dating in some ways. You have an average of 40 minutes to decide whether or not the company you are interviewing with is right for you. In medical sales, representatives have a lot to consider before they accept a new job. Is the compensation structure right? Will the culture be a good…
When you submit a resume for a job – you’re placed at the bottom of a pile. How do you get to the top of that mountain? Takeaways: 118 resumes are submitted for every job opening. 89% of hiring failures are due to a poor culture fit. Smile! Be the kind of person they want…
One of the most common pieces of good advice offered to job-seekers is to find a positive way to stand out from the crowd – something that distinguishes your resume from the stack of similar ones on the hiring manager’s desk and makes your name stand out in his mind. The reason for this is…
What’s more important for you at a job – salary or satisfaction? Philips have collated findings in the infographic below. Takeaways: 96% of Americans said being able to apply personal interests to their careers would make them happy. Most believe that meaning at work is more important than salary. 68% of Americans would take a…
Does your resume work for you, or against you? No matter how badly you want a job, or how qualified you are for that job, if the hiring manager reads through your resume and immediately trips over hard-to-ignore mistakes, that resume is going to be tossed aside. And even if the text is error free,…
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How to Choose the Right Job
You can look at a job and think it’s great, but how do you choose the right job for you? JobCluster.com have created this guide. Takeaways: Your potential isn’t unlimited, it’s limited by your job. Google let you do what you want 20% of the time. Make sure you pick a fun environment to work…
As I sit down to write this blog, I do so fully conscious that the content of this blog MAY offend some of my readers. No offence is intended but I just have to get this off my chest as I think someone has to stand up and tell this group of people some home…