How to Go After Your Dream Job
We’ve found a fantastic guide in Fast Company for leaving your day job behind in favour of pursuing your dreams. It’s a great read that we recommend you check out if you’re feeling unsatisfied with your career. A few of the steps in the 9 step process include: Define your passions and what you really [...]
Continue Reading →How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Get a Job
We’ve found a fantastic guide on the Recruiter website that can help you spruce up your LinkedIn profile to something that will grab the attention of prospective employers. The article cites recent research indicating that 85% of employers use LinkedIn to find new applicants! So it’s a great investment of your time to make sure [...]
Continue Reading →Are Long Term Jobs a Thing of the Past?
It used to be the deal that people worked at the same job for their entire lifetime until they finally retired on company pension. However, times may be changing. Fast Company recently released a statistics-supported article about the shortage of long-term jobs in today’s society as compared to previous decades. Though the stats come from [...]
Continue Reading →What Not to Do When Applying for a New Job
Business Insider recently released an article highlighting the things that potential job applicants should not do. Many of the best practices were excellent resume and cover letter tips. Here’s a few of our favourite points from the article: Don’t be cute Leave out any cute phraseology, pretty fonts, unnecessary anecdotes or attempts at humour in [...]
Continue Reading →How to Answer the Interview Question “Why Did You Leave Your Last Job?”
Forbes recently published an article that provides insights to answering this toughest of interview questions: Why did you leave your last job? This question is pretty scary for most of us, even people who voluntarily left their jobs. We start talking and don’t know when to stop. Before we know it, we’ve told our prospective [...]
Continue Reading →Using Online Job Boards and Social Networking Sites
There are many benefits and a few drawbacks of using job boards and social media sites to help you find your next job. While having a noticeable online presence can help you, you must still compete against many other qualified applicants. Here are a few things to keep in mind when using the Internet to [...]
Continue Reading →Resume Tips for a Digital World
A recent PR Daily post called all job seekers to renounce resume loyalty to Times New Roman and switch to the more readable font of Georgia. The post also recommended other resume tips for job seekers to make their CVs stand out, especially in a digital age with the IT, software and internet industries exploding [...]
Continue Reading →Graduate Job Tips: Employability Trumps Grades
During my interview process at E-Web Marketing, I was asked an interesting question: “How would you respond if I told you that you weren’t the most qualified candidate?” It’s such a cleverly structured question. Think about it for a second. What would you say? How would you respond? It took me a second to compose [...]
Continue Reading →Three Creative CV Strategies to Get You Noticed – and Hired!
If your dream job is the online, marketing, social or creative industries, then you’d better have the CV to match. Gone are the days of still, formal, black-and-white CVs – how do you expect to stand out from the crowd when your resume looks just like everyone else’s? You are interesting, dynamic and full of [...]
Continue Reading →How Japanese Manga Can Help Your Career
What should I do for a career, what should I do for a career … If you’re anything like most uni students, grads, or people just starting out in the workforce, chances are this question has been echoing through your head like the refrain to an infuriatingly catchy song. It is, as everyone seems delighted [...]
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