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 →Change Your Job, Change Your Life
If going to work feels more like a drag than an important and rewarding part of your life, it’s probably time for a change. Unfortunately, many people are scared to make changes. We just continue to grind through our life, never feeling very happy or fulfilled by what we do. However, it doesn’t have to [...]
Continue Reading →Flexible Work Equals Greater Happiness, Success and Fun
After conducting research on Best Buy’s flex-schedule program, a report in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior includes information regarding the positive benefits of flexible scheduling. Important information regarding the health and behaviors of workers who had a flexible schedule were compared with those of workers who had a more traditional schedule. So what [...]
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 →How Creative Zones Provide Inspiration
Boring cubicle walls, dull colours and square shapes plague the workplace and drag down employee morale. Wouldn’t it be more fun to work somewhere that appreciated colour, creativity, and unique flair? A few of the world’s more forward-thinking companies would agree – in fact, they build “creative zones” to bring more fun and enjoyment to [...]
Continue Reading →Weirdest Job Interview Questions of 2011
Mashable recently compiled a hilarious list of the strangest job interview questions of 2011. It focused on the tech sector, as innovative Silicon Valley companies such as Apple and Google often use curveball questions to test their job candidates for out-of-the-box thinking. These unconventional interview questions can span a variety of topics, including complicated mathematical [...]
Continue Reading →What Working at E-Web Marketing Means to Me
Hi, I’m Theo and I’m a Digital Marketing Specialist at E-Web Marketing. Our company was recently featured in the Sydney Morning Herald as an employer of choice, so I’ve volunteered to write a blog post about what working at E-Web Marketing means to me. Coming to work each day, it is hard for me to [...]
Continue Reading →Starting a New Job and a New Life
Starting a new job is daunting. Really daunting. New people with pre-existing relationships, new dynamics. The awkward situation of trying to impress your bosses while trying your best to fit in. It’s a high pressure situation that we’re all very familiar with. Moving to a new city where you know almost nobody is mortifying. Where [...]
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 →What Makes an Awesome Place to Work?
At E-Web Marketing we get pretty used to winning trophies like BRW’s #2 Best Place to Work in Australia and Recommended Employer at the Australian Business Awards. But hang on – what does that actually mean? Is E-Web fantastic just because a panel of judges says so? Of course not! When you know what really makes [...]
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