There are two ways to look at life, one’s job search and the inevitable interviewing rejection each job seeker incurs: the first is to imagine the worst and be prone to depression when we encounter each roadblock. The second is to look at interviewing rejection as a temporary setback and to leverage that disappointment into…
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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.
Studies have shown that your body language communicates more to another person than what you say or the tone of your voice. This is even truer when you are interacting with a stranger, as one naturally sizes up someone new. For that reason, your body language during a job interview has a large effect on…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…