Can I trust you, let alone employ you, without a LinkedIn profile?

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 - Job Application, LinkedIn, Social Media

Can I trust you, let alone employ you, Without a LinkedIn profile? When trying to find people to employ, in the old days, we used to use the Telephone Directory. Problem was, at least 20% of people were unlisted or ex-directory, so if someone really wanted to find you they had to use the electoral [...]

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Cold Calling will NEVER get you employed!

Thursday, August 26th, 2010 - Cold Calling, Job Application Process, Job Search

(Even if you want to work as a cold caller!) As someone who works in the employment market place, I was interested to read from a job coaching website recently that one of the techniques that they coach their clients on to get employed in this tough market place is cold calling. This is apparently [...]

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Salary Checker: job advert tells you the wage

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 - Salary, Salary Calculator, Salary Checker

Salary Checker: job advert tells you the wage (without having to ask) One thing that constantly amazes me is that job seekers do not read job adverts, even the information that the employer has written, let alone the stuff they don’t. For instance, using salary checker websites and other similar job advert information you should [...]

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How often do you job seek? I bet you buy carpet more often!

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 - Job Search, Job Search UK, Job Seeker

How often do you job seek? I bet you buy carpet more often! How often we do certain things in life, often has a direct correlation – all things be equal and likeable – as to how good, well informed or successful we are about achieving that particular activity. Job seeking for instance. How often [...]

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Recruiter Run Around

Monday, August 23rd, 2010 - Recruiters, Recruitment

Recruiter Run Around You’re a job seeker, and you know this situation all to often: recruiter run around! You see a great job, its advertised via a recruiter, you apply and then suddenly – nothing. So you follow up, and get told that yes you are still in the job application pipeline, they are still [...]

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