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UK / What can the Employability and Careers Centre do for you? (Video)
Advice on applying for a frontrunner placements and and how the Employability and Careers Centre can help you Continue reading
Interview scores had no correlation with performance ?
Google has found that interview scores had no correlation with performance, of those who got hired Continue reading
Best Practice Guide / Housing and employment services
ERSA and the National Housing Federation has launched a best practice guide ‘Housing and employment services: Collaboration in a time of change’ Continue reading
Job Search / How to Clean up Your Online Profiles
Here are five ways to protect your online profiles during a job search. Continue reading
Job Search / Nokia’s New Toll: JobLens
Nokia is giving job seekers a new tool in their job search: JobLens, an application that marries augmented reality and social networking Continue reading
Job Search / Free Resume Template for Microsoft Word
This free resume template is designed to help you prepare a resume using Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org. It doesn’t contain fancy colors or unique formatting styles that might identify your resume as having come from a resume template repository Continue reading
Job Search / The Hidden Job Market (video)
Why? Simply put, there are a lot of unadvertised jobs that you are overlooking everyday. If you do not know about these hidden jobs. its because you have been looking in the wrong places. Its time to do something different! In this video on job search strategy, Jim Stroud gives tips on how to prospect the hidden job market. Continue reading
Job Search / Job Seeker’s Must-Ask Interview Questions
Interviewers want and expect you to have questions. It shows that you’re interested in the opportunity, not just the paycheck. Here’s a list of five must-ask interview questions, each followed by an explanation of why you must ask it, and what you want and don’t want to hear in reply. Continue reading
4 Reasons for Freelancing
Freelancing offers workers experience and flexibility, so it’s no wonder more people are creating their own career paths Continue reading
Job Search / 4 Job Seeker’s Nightmares
Here are four potential job search disasters that will hopefully never happen to you Continue reading
Interview / Tricky questions are a complete waste of time says Google
“We found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time. How many golf balls can you fit into an aeroplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste of time,” said Google’s senior vice president of people operations Laszlo Bock Continue reading
Job Search / What job seekers can expect in today’s market
Here’s what job seekers can expect today. * It will take a long time. * You might need to send a lot of applications. * You’ll be lucky to get rejections. * You’ll mostly apply online. * It’s harder to get someone to take a chance on you. * Salaries and benefits are lower. * … Continue reading
CareerSonar / Job Search Through Your Friends’ Connections
A friend on social media is often more of a friendly acquaintance, but you can use that to your benefit when seeking out a new job. CareerSonar uses your connections to others to help you find work at companies where your contacts can assist. To start, you log into a social media account or five … Continue reading
Job Search / Criminal record may cut your chances of getting hired by half
It’s hard enough finding a job these days without having to explain a criminal record. According to a hiring discrimination study conducted by Princeton professor Devah Pager, having a criminal record may cut your chances of getting hired by half. When researchers sent 25 young men with similar levels of job experience and education to … Continue reading
Job Search Skills / A software system to help people improve their conversational and interview skills from MIT
MIT scientists have developed a software system to help people improve their conversational and interview skills. Experts say that social phobias affect about 15 million adults in the United States with public speaking high on the list of such phobias. In some cases, fears of social situations can be especially acute. For example, individuals with … Continue reading
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