Are you looking for a better way to represent your career and life experiences? You can easily show them off with photos, videos and samples of work, however, you don’t need to build a website to have an online portfolio – LinkedIn is your answer!
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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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What Does Your Job Say About YOU?
What does your job say about you? How are your people skills or fitness? This infographic by Oneshift takes a few jobs and gives them ratings – is your position in there? Office assistants need an eye for detail, but colleagues may see them as unable to make big decisions in life. Labourers bear the…
Do you find it hard to operate in the morning and night? Make it easier for yourself by following the steps in this infographic by OPEN Forum. Takeaways: Make a Night Before list. Set out your clothes – what are you going to wear tomorrow? Forgive yourself Do something for yourself – exercise, for example.…
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Making Women Happy in the Workplace
Women’s wants in a job have changed. New Accenture research for International Women’s Day finds shifting definitions for “what it means to have it all” for the majority of today’s professional women. This infographic by Accenture explains all. Takeaways: Women are more interested in flexibility than money. A better work-life balance is preferred by women…
One of my favourite sites, Happy Place, posted 35 (other) things you absolutely MUST agree upon before getting married based on a Hufftington Post article. I decided this was a great list but it needed another scenario. Therefore, I came up with 35 things you must decide on before being hired – imagine this being asked…
There may be a number of times within an interview where you feel that the potential employer or interviewer is getting a little too personal with their questions. Never assume that an interviewer is asking a question simply because it benefits them, sometimes they’re just feeling chatty and would like to get to know the…
We live in a world where your online reputation can literally make or break your career. Success and opportunity is no longer based on “who you know” but much more on “whom knows you.” Googling someone is standard practice. We all do it, and what shows up strongly influences the decisions we make about others:…
If you work in recruitment, you’ve probably seen thousands of job specs, in all different shapes and sizes. I’ve seen job specs ranging from five sentences, to five pages long. I’ve seen job specs that range in tone from funny and clever, to dry and dull. Furthermore, just as is the case with the CV,…
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How to Use about.me as Your Online CV
Notice how many resumes we have to keep on our computer, and how we need to update every single file whenever we start looking for a new job? Of course, we shouldn’t really be complaining because we are the ones looking for a job, but what if we have a really good opportunity, and we…