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Do You Have What It Takes to Be a CEO?

What makes up a CEO? Do you have the right education, experience and personality traits to match the big bosses? Brighton SBM has put together an infographic for you to find out… Takeaways: Harvard has produced the most CEOs. Richard Branson – CEO of Virgin – was a dropout. Education isn’t always key! 97% of…

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How to Get Hired in a Digital World [INFOGRAPHIC]

With the internet and social media shaping today’s society, social recruiting is the hot topic. We become more and more globally connected, hence the need to be extremely careful about what we put online. Internet made it easier to find job offers, but as the visibility of companies increased, so as the number of potential…

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How Social Networking Can Boost Your Career

Traditional methods in searching for employment opportunities involved many time consuming consultations with CV agencies or browsing broadsheet newspapers… In the current time frame the key method is social media. Social media is part of our daily life with over 1 billion people registered on Google+ and over 300 million business professionals use LinkedIn. More and…

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Job Search Psychology: 5 Steps to Positivity

Abraham Lincoln once said: “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or we can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” These were some of the greatest words ever spoken – how we look at things can completely change our perspective of them. There are so many things that we don’t even realize we do,…

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What NOT to Wear to Your Next Job Interview

Interviews are all about first impressions and what you wear can go a long way in telling people who you are before you’ve even started speaking. You don’t have to spend a lot of money on your outfit, but putting in a little extra effort to choose the right attire can help you in the…