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How to Get Up to Speed in Your New Job

The euphoria of accepting an offer is swift and fleeting. The honeymoon phase quickly moves on, a distant memory as projects expand, deadlines shift and the role as you understood it during the interview changes. In recent coaching conversations, my attention has been on how my clients are handling transitioning into their new role: Address…

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Why Are You Doing What You’re Doing?

Sometimes, life gets really hectic and we don’t take the time to stand back and just question on why we do what we do. I recently read, for a second time, Simon Sinek’s great book “Start with Why” and I would highly recommend it to all of you. In the book, Simon says that is…

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What is the Best Facebook Career Page in Europe? [INFOGRAPHIC]

We here at Link Humans recently analysed the best Facebook Career pages in Europe – you can find the results below in an infographic. We hope this study will provide you with some inspiration for you to enhance your company page with better design or more relevant apps! Here is a comment by Charles Schmidt, Corporate…

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LinkedIn Etiquette: What to Do and What NOT to Do

How good is your etiquette on LinkedIn? This infographic by topdogsocialmedia.com gives you twenty dos and don’ts! Takeaways: Profile Picture: Make sure you’ve got a profile picture, but a good, professional one! Updates: Keep updates professional – do not talk about anything that isn’t relevant to LinkedIn! Endorsements: Don’t ask new people or people you don’t…

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10 Ways to Create an All-Star Graduate LinkedIn Profile

Graduate recruiters are using LinkedIn to find the best candidates in the market. Meanwhile tech savvy job hunters have been using the site for a number of years to network with other professionals in the field or to ‘follow’ companies they wish to work for. As a graduate, it’s important not only to have an…

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7 Ways to Inject Creativity into Your Personal Brand

With personal branding becoming mainstream, it is really important to think of more ways to inject creativity into your personal brand. In the past simply securing yourname.com or starting a blog was a sure-fire way to stand out, however, nowadays such actions are no longer the exception but the norm. A recent example of an…

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The Ultimate Guide to a Career in Accounting

Gone are the days of following in your parents’ footsteps or choosing the career they think is right for you. Thanks to the Internet and evermore sophisticated job search techniques, you have the ability to access an almost endless amount of information about any career you’re interested in pursuing. And if a career in accounting is the…

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How to Use Social Media to Find Your Perfect Job

Remember the days when trying to get an opportunity meant hours of knocking on doors, endless phone calls and rejection by the bucket load? Don’t be fooled, those days haven’t gone entirely. To get the job you want still involves plenty of hard work and many hours of perseverance, but thanks to the way people…

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Graduates: Top 4 Tips for Making Yourself More Employable

You just graduated University. You have a back-breaking amount of student debt. The career services department of your school gave your degree and said, “Off you go! You’re all set!” Three months later, you are still looking for jobs everywhere. Telephone poles, fliers, online postings, walking into offices, talking to friends, and none have proven…