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Is your CV working for or against you?
Have you registered your CV with an online job board? If you have, congratulations! It’s probably the best way to find a job in this digital era. The days of ‘situations vacant’ in printed media are quickly becoming ancient history, and the online job board CV database is now the talent spotting ground of choice for employers and recruiters.
Here is the good news: your resume will most likely be picked up by recruiters who make their money by finding and placing suitable candidates for their clients. So, all you need to do is to register your CV, sit back and dream of your next job, wait for the phone to ring, no more scouring the net, papers or journals for jobs, no fee to pay the recruitment company, it couldn’t be easier, could it?
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Rowena Simpson 27 April 2011 Careers Advice, CV / Resume Advice, Interview Tips CV Advice, Interview tips, Job Board Registration, Resume Search No Comments
5 Reasons You Didn’t Get the Job
Facing rejection from a job application at any stage can be really disappointing, and leave you wondering just where you went wrong. This can be particularly frustrating for you when you don’t even get any feedback on the reasons behind your lack of success. Rather than feeling negative, it’s important to try and turn this into an opportunity for reflection and self analysis, and most importantly a chance to improve your future performance. So here’s 5 reasons you might have failed to land the job?
You didn’t even get an interview
Have you fallen at the first hurdle? Did you really make sure that your CV was as sharp as it could be? Did you reveal the uncanny similarities between your skills, experience and qualifications, and those specified in the job description and person specification, or did you leave it to the telepathic powers of the reader? The big question here is was your application a complete waste of time, and if you didn’t really put in the leg work at this stage, the painful truth is that you probably wasted your postage stamp. Click here for tips on making your CV the best it can be.
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Rowena Simpson 21 April 2011 Careers Advice, CV / Resume Advice, Interview Tips Careers Advice, Engineering Jobs, Interview Advice, Job rejection, oil jobs No Comments
Top 5 tips to succeed at Telephone Interviews
A telephone interview may be the first stage to getting your next job, and preparation for this all important stage shouldn’t be overlooked. You may be called by the hiring manager, a HR person or a recruiter, it may be prearranged or out of the blue, either way a bit of preparation and knowing how to handle a telephone interview will go a long way to improving your chances of progressing to the next stage.
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Rowena Simpson 5 April 2011 Careers Advice, Interview Tips Interview Advice, Interview Preparation, Telephone interview tips 2 Comments
How to overcome pre-interview nerves
What really scares you? Going to the dentist? Big spiders and creepy crawlies? or perhaps what really puts the frighteners on you is attending an interview. Do you recognise those tell tale signs, of dry mouth, sweating palms, blank mind and the desperate urge to exit the room as soon as possible? It’s a familiar tale for many people who dread interviews and suffer terribly from interview nerves.
In this article I hope to offer a few nuggets of advice that may just help get the whole thing under control. The good news is that a little bit of nervous energy is a good thing, the bad news is that let it get out of control, and it can ruin your chances of securing your next job.
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Rowena Simpson 29 March 2011 Careers Advice, Interview Tips, Job News 3 Comments
5 Ways to Improve Your Chances at Interview
You’ve got to the final hurdle, your CV has done the trick and the day of judgement is coming. Don’t leave this meeting to chance, as there’s plenty you can do to ensure that you perform to the best of your ability at the all important interview stage.
Be There
Number one has to be – turn up. Now this is not as daft as it at first seems, as turning up at the right place and at the right time is fraught with potential disaster, anxiety inducing delayed trains or missing buses, or perhaps your apparently vindictive Sat Nav might lead you completely astray. There’s nothing worse than that all knowing voice in the car telling you that “you have reached your destination,” only to find yourself on the wrong side of the motorway with 15 miles to the next intersection.
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Rowena Simpson 1 March 2011 Careers Advice, Interview Tips Interview technique, Interview tips 20 Comments
Questions you should ask at interview
You’ve probably experienced that classic moment at the end of the interview where your interviewer asks you that final question: “Do you have any questions for us?” This can result in an uncomfortable shuffle in the chair and the standard reply, “No, I think you’ve covered everything.” How much better would the end of your interview be if you could produce a couple of searching and conversation stimulating questions to top off your performance? Questions which could really make the difference and leave a lasting positive impression in the mind of your interviewer.
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Rowena Simpson 1 February 2011 Careers Advice, CV / Resume Advice, Interview Tips Interview Preparation, Interview Questions, Interview tips 7 Comments
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