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Get That Job: 5 Ways to Make Recruitment Consultants Love You

It can be frustrating. You know you’re the right person for the job. You know that if you could speak directly to your potential new boss, she would understand that. Yet there are all these ‘middle men’ in the way: the recruiters. And these people, usually either recruitment consultants or in-house human resources people, are often so hurried and distracted that they don’t seem to see your strengths. What to do?

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Job Loss: 5 Answers to the “What do you do?” Question

It is the first question we ask when we meet someone new. And it is the last question we want to be asked when we are out of work: “What do you do?”. It is a strange quirk of our society that we define ourselves first and foremost by the work we do. Being unemployed can leave us feeling out-of-place and uncomfortable, and can even lead to avoidance of social gatherings and, therefore, networking opportunities. Here we explore ways of dealing with this sometimes awkward question.

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Interview Skills: 7 Easy Ways to Impress Your Interviewer

In the world of job hunting, there is nothing more daunting than the job interview. Everyone gets nervous when faced with being put on the spot. With all the build up to an interview, many people go in feeling like one misplaced word will be enough to lose them the opportunity. It doesn’t need to be so hard. In this article we look at seven things you can do to improve the impression you give in an interview situation. These apply equally to agency interviews and interviews with the potential employer. And they are really simple.

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Job Loss: 5 Ways to Cope with Redundancy

Losing your job is tough. Even those who for whom redundancy comes as no surprise, and who receive a good package, tend to feel a sense of loss and at least a small hit to their self-esteem. For those who are laid off at short notice and have little to fall back on it can be much harder. Aside from the self-doubt this situation can bring, there is the obvious pressure of money. While nothing can magically make things better, there are some things you can do to make the situation more manageable. We explore five of these things here.

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Tired of Your Job? Start Dreaming of a New Career

Do you hate your job? I did, fifteen years ago. Stressed, poorly rewarded and unappreciated, I found that simply packing my bag and leaving for work gave me a headache. It wasn’t just the company I was working for that was the problem. I was simply in the wrong career. Trouble was, at the time, I really had no idea what else I might do. It was very difficult to think outside the narrow bounds of the career I had more or less fallen in to.

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Winning Resumes: When it’s Okay to Bend the Truth

When applying for jobs, your resume is your weapon of first resort. It has one primary purpose: to get you an interview. As such, it needs to present you to the world in the best possible light. Occasionally, this means you need to bend the truth a little.

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Winning Resumes: Top 10 Things to Leave Off your CV

You’ve been thinking for a while about changing jobs and finally the perfect opportunity has come up. Great pay, great location, great organization. Now to put a resume together. Before you put fingers to keyboard, give some thought to what you should leave off your resume. There are two important things to keep in mind [...]