Looking For a Hot New Job? Find a Headhunter!

I’ve had my fair share of job hunting escapades and know the frustration that goes along with the search. You know what your skills are, but if you are not effectively communicating those skills through a resume, you could find yourself out of luck and out of a potentially good job.
For a brief period in [...]

Online Social Networking Mistakes That Can Break Your Career

Leverage The Internet To Get A Job
We’ve heard about how great social networking can be to our job or career. For instance, by connecting with past colleagues and friends over the Internet, I’ve increased my chances for getting job leads which eventually led to actual job offers. I’ve been using LinkedIn as one great resource for connecting [...]

Career Advice Videos from Monster

They are at the forefront of offering career tips and countless number of Industry Career Tools such as  CV Templates, expert advice eBooks, quizzes, virtual job interviews, career snapshots, the latest news and links to the latest job opportunities from all industries.
Now they have partnered with CareerPlayer.com to bring you a series of video insights into [...]

How dependable are you?

If others cannot depend on you, particularly in the workplace but also in life, that is a trait to work on and fix ASAP. Having a good work ethic trumps so many other flaws.
In my history employing others one of the most common problems people have had that either self terminated, were fired or had to be [...]

How To Wow at a Job Interview

The resume gets you in the door but it’s the interview that gets you the job. For the inexperienced job hunter an interview can be intimidating but it’s really not so bad as long as you follow the simple guidelines listed here.
Here’s How:

Show up 10-15 minutes early for your scheduled interview. Do not show up [...]

Justify your salary–and your job–by adding value

Takeaway: Dodging the layoff bullet has never been easy. For anyone wondering what you can do to make yourself irreplaceable in your organization, check out this Artner’s Law column on ways to add value to your job.
Let’s talk about job security. There isn’t any. The technology boom is long over, and most of us have [...]

The Value of a Mentor

Looking for a boost in your job search or working life? Find yourself a mentor — or let one find you. A mentor is that one person who can guide you, help you, take you under his or her wing, and nurture your career quest. A Yoda to your Luke Skywalker. A Glinda the Good [...]

Job Interview Techniques: Preparing For Your Interview

Looking for a new job? Some job interview techniques may prove helpful before you walk into the lair of a hiring company. Here are some general tips on preparing for your interview.
For many people, the interview is the most stressful part of getting a job; something like asking the girl you love to marry you [...]

2009 World’s Largest Staffing Companies

Ranked based on global staffing revenue in U.S. $ billions. The list, published in alphabetical order, appeared in the October 19, 2009, issue of Workforce Management. To enlarge the view, click on the image below.
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10 Keys to Stay Motivated And On Top Of Your Game at Work

What do you dream about? Do you have dreams of building a blockbuster business, material wealth, taking great vacations, writing the next bestseller, or contributing to the lives of others? Whatever dreams you have big or small, staying motivated can sometimes be a challenge.
Initially, many people hit the ground running towards their goals with great [...]

40 Job Interview DO’s and DON’Ts – See them

Here are the keys to successful job interviews. Follow these simple rules and you should achieve success in this important phase of job-hunting. However, do not forget the 3Ds, Plan, Prepare and Practice.
40 Interview DO’s and DON’Ts
Here are the keys to successful job interviewing. Follow these simple rules and you should achieve success in this [...]

7 Signs You’re Creating Your Own Workplace Stress

Quick, by a show of hands, how many of you have workplace stress? Almost everybody, great. Now, how much of that stress do you think is self-imposed? What, no hands? Well, I’m not surprised, but you may be in for one.
You see, most people make their own stress. Why do they do it? How should [...]

Need a Job? See 12 Surefire Ways for Recruiters to Find You

You are in a panic. You need a job fast and recruiters won’t return your call. You don’t have anything on the back burner because you thought you could just call the recruiter and get set up. After all everyone knows a recruiter or two. Well, times have changed. Recruiters hold the cards now. So [...]

The Lazy Worker’s Way to Success

Do you know your share of slackers at work? Mostly, they are intelligent people who could easily upstage everyone else’s efforts if they applied themselves a bit more. Yet, while everyone else is in panic mode trying to get ahead, while the slackers know how to fulfill their obligations, get decent feedback and enjoy a [...]

Fitness Test – A tool to be More Successful at Getting a Senior Level Job

It’s time to be better prepared to get the job you want and this involves thinking like your “customer” = your potential employer. By thinking about what each of the people who will interview you will be looking for you can give yourself a competitive edge over other candidates. If you fit all their requirements [...]

The CV Black Hole – What Happens When You Hit Send?

Even though economic conditions may be stabilizing globally and in Britain, economists expect unemployment to continue rising this year, as financial uncertainty persists. “In the real world of Britain’s workplaces people are still losing their jobs and finding it harder and harder to get new ones”, TUC General Brendan Barber said. Not only is unemployment [...]

10 Jobs That Pay £50,000

Since the start of 2008, companies have been embroiled in a so-called ‘war on talent’ as the jobs marketplace enters its most challenging and competitive period for several years. It’s predicted many industry sectors will lose more jobs in 2009 and budgets will be slashed as a result of the testing economic conditions.
Despite this, many [...]

8 Ways Not to Get the Job You Want

I saw this post on MSN this morning and I thought I should share it with you all. It captures the things not to do when you want a job. Please enjoy reading it. Well, not only that, make sure you don’t do the things highlighted there if you want to secure a job.
Everybody knows [...]

Tips for Dealing with Difficult People

Friendly, welcoming, and good communicators are great people to converse with. They are emotionally uplifting. If you have a problem with them, it is easily worked through. Unfortunately, the world isn’t filled with great communicators; it is more dominated by difficult people. Dealing with difficult people is a must to be happy and successful in [...]

16 Tips for Better Time Management

Every day has just 24 hours – and this applies to all people. Some people are constantly pursuit and pushed by time. This article is about how we can learn to manage our valuable time more effectively.
In reality we cannot manage time, we can only manage ourselves and our relationship with time. After all, how [...]

12 Ways to be More Creative At Work

In today’s rapidly changing business environment everyone is looking for ways to become more effective in their thinking. An important way to promote effective thinking at the office, is to foster a creative work environment. Having fun is a big part of developing a creative work environment. In fact, humor makes up an essential part [...]

Three Ways to Cope with a Looming Layoff

I’ve been surprised by the number of people I’ve met who, like I did, quit their jobs after the recession took hold last year. Of course, most people don’t want to quit — or can’t. For many of those job-keepers, the prospect of layoffs is all too real, even as the recession officially winds down. [...]

An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day

Yesterday started with the best of intentions. I walked into my office in the morning with a vague sense of what I wanted to accomplish. Then I sat down, turned on my computer, and checked my email. Two hours later, after fighting several fires, solving other people’s problems, and dealing with whatever happened to be [...]

50 Interview Questions and Answers

Review these typical interview questions and think about how you would
answer them. Read the questions listed; you will also find some
strategy suggestions with it.
(Excerpted from the book The Accelerated Job Search by Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D, published by The Management Advantage, Inc.)
1. Tell me about yourself:
The most often asked question in interviews. You need to [...]

How to Behave at Work

WorkEtiquette contains over 60 articles written by their experts who continually update and add new content…
How to Fit into a New Workplace

Swearing in the Workplace

What Title Should I Give if I Only Have a Name?

Videoconferencing Etiquette

Instant Messaging Etiquette In Business

Etiquette When Transferring A Phone Call

Making Presentations to Colleagues: A Case Study
To read more, please go [...]

Get Noticed at Work: See These Tips…

Office life can be downright unfair sometimes. Some workers breezily sail through their careers, collecting accolades and promotions for their efforts, while others seem to have an uncanny knack of missing out. No matter how many hours overtime they put in or extra miles they walk to get a project up by deadline, their work [...]

The Seven Laws of Networking: Those Who Give, Get

Ever been to a reception following a talk or a meeting and felt it was a dreadful display of people begging to each other while pretending to be best friends? To be fair, most of the people present were probably friends. But, during these gatherings people too often forget about the seventh law of networking: [...]

10 Things You Can Do to Get a Promotion

Very few people hire on with any company or organization with the intention of remaining indefinitely at the position for which they were hired. Just because you started as the grunt who had to fix the copy machines doesn’t mean you don’t someday want to be CIO. At most companies, this could entail half a [...]

Job Applications: Selling Your Skills

What can you offer?
Transferable skills
Relating skills to opportunities
Graduate vacancies and skills
Sample job advertisement – The High Roller Group
Sample job advertisement – Innovative Car Hire
PhD vacancy example
Presenting the evidence

What can you offer?
Employers ask for evidence that you have the:

motivation for the role;
ability to adapt to and share the organisation’s vision and ethos;
skills and competence relevant to [...]

Aaargh! iVillage’s Top 10 nightmare bosses

If you’re suffering working for a boss from hell, be comforted by the fact that you are not alone. Check out the boorish bosses below. If you think you can top our list, click here to tell us all about it.
1 The Weakest Link
The worst boss I ever had wasn’t bad – just terribly weak and [...]

Learn to sell yourself

Many people dream about interesting work and challenging career. They try hard to be promoted and do the darnbest to attain this goal. Many employees try to impress their bosses by their hard work, responsibility and efficiency. It leads to overstrain, constant stress and lack of free time.
People are often ready even to sacrifice their [...]

Mistakes on the Way to Success

Many people dream about promotion and meteoric career. Unfortunately our dreams don’t have such a strong power to come true automatically. In order to achieve success we must do something ourselves and not sit on our hands. Even if you possess wonderful professional qualities, work hard and efficiently, you may remain on one and the [...]

How Do You Network When Your Network’s All Laid Off?

It’s a little harder, but it’s also crucial for finding a new job.  Everyone says the key to finding a new job is networking. But how do you do that when so many of your contacts are also out of work?

First, you need to expand your circle of contacts. But even before that, develop a [...]

Are you reaching your full potential?

Its been there for many years. All you have to do is reach out and touch it. A carrot just dangling out of reach. Such a great shame about that chasm yawning below, oh and the rope bridge with the rungs missing, not to forget the forest at the other side. Then there is the [...]

Jobs: Tips from Jobsite

Interviews can reduce even the most confident among us to quivering wrecks, but no more! Jobsite’s interactive tool, BeMyInterviewer, shows you how to take on the most challenging interviewer with confidence – see their feature for more. This month they also show you how to expand your job search away from the 9-5, how to avoid howlers [...]

The Portfolio: Creatively Showcasing Your Skills

(Image: Tidyup.co.uk)
WHAT IS A PORTFOLIO?

A collection of samples that can be used to both communicate your interest and give evidence of your talents and experiences.
Visually shows what you have accomplished, learned or produced.
A creative way to showcase a unique special-purpose autobiography.

WHAT SHOULD THE PORTFOLIO LOOK LIKE?

A portfolio should be displayed in an attractive and professional [...]

8 Ways to Thrive at Your New Job

You think landing a great job is important? Even more critical is what you do to make the most of it. Here’s how:

Don’t let the cement dry. When you start out on a job, your feet are in wet cement. If you don’t get out fast, you’ll probably be stuck there a while. So when [...]

How to Get Along With Your Boss: 10 Tips

At one point or another in your career, you will report to a manager, the person you fondly – or not – call boss. The relationships that you create and manage, with both your immediate boss, and other company employees, are critical for your work success and career progress.
And, face it, whether you like it [...]

How to Get the Promotion You Deserve

We all know a thing or two about unrewarded effort. The fastest way to get a promotion you’ve earned or a position you want is to be pro-active about the process. I’ve followed the steps below and it’s netted me four promotions in seven years on the job.
1) Determine Expectations
Identify the goals for the position [...]

Get The Promotion You Deserve – Add Value To Your Organization

Your organization has hired you for the results you can achieve with your talents and abilities. The organization believes that by using those talents and abilities, you will “add value.” You solve problems, you help the organization meet the needs of its clients, you contribute ideas that are valuable, etc. Those types of things add [...]