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How to Reach Out to a Potential Employer on LinkedIn

With more than 500 million users worldwide, LinkedIn has established itself as the leading professional social networking site on the web. LinkedIn’s strength lies in its capacity for forging and promoting connections, making networking that much easier. From former coworkers to alumni from the same high school, users build their network through connections, which can lead to insightful conversations…

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Employer Branding Timebound Workplace

Who Does What In the Insurance Industry?

Insurance is a very complicated and highly regulated industry with many different roles and opportunities for those working within it. The UK is claimed to have the largest insurance industry in Europe and the third largest in the world which makes it hardly surprising that such a diverse range of job roles are available within…

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Timebound Workplace

A New Year, New You? Maybe Not!

I find the concept of making resolutions on New Year’s Eve fascinating.  The frenzy with which people attend to resolutions during the end of the year intrigues me.  The burst of energetic resolve, the elaborate goal-writing and the endless conversations to identify the “right” goals seem to pop up in conversations, essays and blogs.  Each…

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6 Reasons Volunteering Will Help Your Job Search

I recently had a childhood friend make a career change in her late thirties: she went back to school full-time, investing significant time, effort and money to turn her nursing dream into reality. She recently graduated and was so very proud to have those two new initials after her name – R.N. Everyone was so…

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Five Ways to Jazz Up Your Personal Brand

There are lots of things you can do to jazz up your personal brand and many of them are completely free! Here are five things you can do for your personal brand without spending even a penny: 1. 360°Reach Personal Brand Assessment 360°Reach is the first and leading web-based personal brand assessment that helps you…

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Talent Acquisition Workplace

Do Job Boards Still Matter?

This infographic, courtesy of TribeHR asks the question of whether job boards matter or social and mobile recruiting are the way forward. Have you used a job board to recruit someone? Takeaways: 1 in 7 social referrals applied for their jobs, compared to 1 in 20 from other sources. 95% of all applicants from social…

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How to Stand Out Online by Curating Content

If you are active on social networks, you probably share all types of content: videos, articles, and pictures and you want your network to see what you’ve seen. The problem with this is that the shared content has a limited shelf-life and often doesn’t reach everyone across all your social networks. Wouldn’t it be great…

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7 Phrases Employees Want to Hear from their Boss

I was coaching a real ‘high flyer’ the other week and she felt that the trust between her and the owners of the business she runs (in the UK) had been broken. Part of the reason was that they had not done what they said they would and had not honored their promises, however another…

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How to Prepare Your Social Media for a Job Search

If you are ready to begin the search for a great job, chances are you have a lot on your mind! You have to get your resume up to date and impressive, create the perfect cover letter, find out who is hiring and prepare for those tough interview questions. Even though you’ve got a lot…