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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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Job Search: 5 Tips for Keeping in Touch without being Annoying

The job hunting world can be a lonely place, particularly if you are ‘between jobs’.  It can be very dispiriting and, paradoxically, distracting when everyone else has left the house for the day and left you on your own. These are not feelings you want when trying to stay focused on your search for a [...]

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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 [...]

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