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How Understanding Your Industry Advances Your Career

The moment you choose to strike out on your own as an independent contractor, it is all up to you to stay afloat and thrive in your industry. There is no-one above to make the big business decisions or to hand down a detailed growth strategy to you; there is no one to market your…

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Employer Branding

How Fortune 500 CEOs Use Social Media [STUDY]

Oh yes, it’s that time of year again. Our friends at CEO.com searched for the social profiles of every single CEO on the FORTUNE 500 list on five popular social networks to determine which CEOs are lighting up social media – and which CEOs are still in the dark. Here’s a peek at what they…

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Talent Acquisition

Sales Recruiting Cold Call: What Are You Getting Out Of It?

To say there is a love hate relationship with cold calling would be an understatement. In any sales career cold calling is the lifeline of your success. You’re job as a salesperson is to get the person on the other end of the phone to say yes so you can complete the sale. In agency…

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How to Use Social Media to Seek New Opportunities

If you are looking for a new opportunity, or even if you just want to surf around the web for attractive job opportunities, I recommend that you begin with social media channels! 1) Don’t just seek – become sought after: You may not know it, but employers spend time searching for their most suitable candidate…

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How to Write an Honest Cover Letter to Avoid the Wrong Job

When there’s an opening for your dream job but you’re not qualified for it yet, what should you do? A lot of people will look at the qualifications specified for the job and think of ways to embellish their actual skills and experiences to make it seem like they’re a good fit. But where’s the…

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Employer Branding

Why a Healthy Employee is a Happy Employee

Following on from our employee’s guide to staying healthy, this useful infographic from ChairOffice provides lunchtime inspiration for those aiming to get a head-start on their new year resolutions on keeping healthy and fit. Not only will you feel better overall but you’ll work more efficiently! Remember, keeping healthy is 80% nutrition, 20% working out. Killer…

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Strictly Finding Your #XFactor: Which Judge Should Recruiters Learn From?

Dancing shoes ready: I am an avid fan of the BBC1 Dance show, Strictly Come Dancing. As a keen intermediate learner of the ballroom and Latin genre, I can critique the celebrities each week, judging their technical ability over flair, substance over style…. Whilst watching this latest series, it dawned on me the parody it…

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5 Essential Steps to Develop Your Team

When I first became a manager, I really struggled with figuring out the best way to develop my team. I was so used to doing it all myself, that I didn’t realize that I had to unlearn a few of the “best practices” that had gotten me to the next level. I soon realized that…

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Life Changes to Make You Happier and More Productive

There are a few lucky people in the world who are doing exactly what they want for work and enjoying every single minute of it. These people feel that they could want nothing more from their work than what they already have. They are completely fulfilled and experience work as being in complete alignment with…