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10 Ways to Reach Your Goals with the Power of Perspective

Sometimes quick fixes can lead to long-term failure, whilst short-term failures can build long-term success. Your failures and successes are often due to your personal mindset. By changing your perspective, you can begin to understand situations better and start to transform your life. There are hundreds of stories on business-focused people that have gained achievement…

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5 Ways to Separate Yourself as a Job Seeker

I was going through my LinkedIn Applications folder the other day and saw all of the applications sitting there. They were all for the same job so maybe seeing the same line of words repeated 50+ times in that folder made me think of it, but as a job seeker you need to separate yourself…

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How to Outsmart Your Interviewer with Body Language

Before I understood these body language tricks, waiting for a job interview wasn’t exactly relaxing. I felt butterflies in my stomach, checked my watch every few minutes and reviewed answers to potential interview questions in my mind until I was invited into the room.  In short, I was grossly anxious, feeling like Shy Ronnie: Then…

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Talent Acquisition Workplace

How to Alienate a Recruiter

Should recruiters be a candidate’s friend? After all, there are no fees if they can’t fill the jobs, so they should treasure you and be delighted to hear from you on any occasion. And what a recruiter thinks of you can make a significant difference to your career prospects, so why do candidates fail to…

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5 Signs You’re Not Happy at Work

Are you happy at work? Do you know the signs that show you’re unhappy? How do you become happier at work? Here are the top 5 signs to look for and how to improve your job happiness level. 1) It’s on your mind when you walk, eat and sleep: The symptom: After you go home from work…

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First Impressions – Is What You See Really What You Get?

Sometimes you really do need to look twice or three times to see the person behind the tattoo or the lion in the sheep’s skin. It takes just one-tenth of a second for us to judge someone and make our first impression, and our confidence in impression formation increases with the time taken to form the…

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Funniest Excuses For Not Going to Work

Days off from work are inevitable – for reasons such as illness, emergencies or commitment. But what about those employees who just want a lazy day in bed? In this infographic from Job Cluster, we are shown some of the more creative excuses for not coming into work. Let us know in the comments any creative excuses…

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5 Things You Must Consider Before Taking that Job

Congrats on getting a job offer! You spent hours preparing, talking to people, and interviewing, All your efforts had paid off! Now what do you do next? How do you decide whether to accept the job offer? Better yet, if you have two job offers in hand, how do you decide on which one to…

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Top iOS Apps for Your Job Search

Whether you’ve got a shiny new iPhone 7 or stuck in the middle ages on your iPhone 5, we have accumulated the best iOS apps for discovering your dream job. Apple’s App Store is cluttered with a zillion apps, so finding anything that isn’t a Flappy Bird clone is the digital equivalent of a religious crusade. Luckily,…