Looking for a job is more than just finding the job you want and applying for it. With a world now obsessed with the internet and social media you, personally can be googled and searched within an inch of your privacy. Follow the step by step rules to making sure that what you are putting […]
If Algebra + Consulting = Recruitment, then Algebra = Recruitment – Consulting I remember my teacher saying; Algebra is great fun – you get to solve puzzles! Little did I know years later I would be practicing algebra (recruitment) on a daily basis and making a living from it. Now I was never great at […]
Last year LinkedIn asked 8,000 professionals what they had thought they wanted to be when they grew up. The survey found that the top childhood dream jobs for men in the U.S. were a professional or Olympic athlete, airplane or helicopter pilot, scientist, lawyer and astronaut. Women said that their top childhood dream jobs were teacher, […]
Action will always remove the doubt that theory cannot solve. – Petryl Hsieh Taking any action at all can help chip away at the uncertainties faced when picking a career. The action can be as small as reaching out to contacts to temping with a company for insight into a particular industry. You don’t need to invest […]
In our lifetime apparently we will work around 90,000 hours. That is a lot of time to spend doing something you are not passionate about. When I was researching this article I read something that said: “Would you do this for free? If so you’re on the right track” Now I am not sure there […]
You registered for a recruitment company. You smashed the interview process and the feedback was great. The communication doesn’t stop there. It is important to keep the lines of communication open with your consultant. Make sure that you are at the forefront of their minds and you are the first person they think of when […]
I recently attended a seminar all about creating an empire. The speaker was Sarah Wilson. You may have heard of her, she is an Australian media icon. Long story short she has moved from the editor at Cosmopolitan Australia to entrepreneur starting with blogs, ebooks and more recently print books. Sarah Wilson claims that she […]
As part of creating the “You” brand you should focus heavily on your LinkedIn profile. To give you an idea of how big LinkedIn has now become it has 300million members internationally. 6million of these are in Australia and just 4 years ago this was only 1million. A completed LinkedIn profile will always be the […]
In this labor market, having a strong network is critical to your professional survival. There are plenty of tips and articles on where to find people, how and when to connect to them and even what you need to say to attract and maintain your network. This article focuses on WHO should be in your […]
Have you done an audit on your e-mail address lately? I don’t mean opening up your account and looking for messages. I mean taking a closer look at the actual e-mail address you are using. I have received a number of e-mails from some very interesting address names lately. That being said, if you were […]
