Most professional, at some point in their career, will wish that their resume packed a bit more punch, that it contained some sparkling accolades or some big name employers. However, exaggerating on your resume is a recipe for disaster and here’s why. 1. You will have to prove it. When hiring managers invite you for Continued »
Doing the same routine at work day in, day out can make anyone feel a little bit stagnant after a while. It’s important to keep yourself interested and motivated whether with an evening class or taking up a new hobby. Here are 6 ways you can do to develop your skills and expertise outside work. Continued »
For those of you who have grand New Year’s career resolutions for 2017, we have put together a fail-safe step-by-step guide to ensuring you get off to a flying start. Put your best step forward, revamp your resume, brush up on your social media skills and get stuck in. Step 1: Revamp your resume. First things first Continued »
Whether your career has spanned 10 years or 10 minutes it is important to keep your resume as short and concise as possible. As a rule it should be no longer that 1 or 2 A4 pages length maximum with your most recent and relevant experience highlighted at the top in more detail. It is Continued »
Would you like the good news or the bad news first? The bad news jobseekers is that your resume is never complete – you can always improve it. Yes we hear the groans. It’s sad but true. The good news is that you don’t have to rewrite it from scratch. Here we’re going to walk Continued »
There are many experienced professionals who have succeeded for years and years in the job market without needing an up-to-date resume until now. They have decades of valuable experience over many of the young graduate and novice job seekers, but unfortunately for them the nature of the job market has changed considerably and so has acceptable expectations for resumes. Experienced Continued »
It is no secret that hiring managers receive hundreds of application per vacancy but you’d be surprised how quickly some of them get thrown in the trash. One small indiscretion, one neglectful typo and boom your chances are blow. Your resume is the chance to shine, highlight your best qualities and stand out from the crowd. Here Continued »
Resumes are a tricky thing to get right. You need to be able to say as much as you can about yourself and your job history in as concise and detailed account as possible. For this reason many job seekers tend to use buzzwords in their resumes like, “Self-motivated team player,” as a way of Continued »
Your resume is the first version of you that your prospective employers will meet and how you introduce yourself to the hiring manager. Even though it does not physically speak like you or I, it tells the hiring manager so much more about you than just what is typed on the page. Assumptions will be made Continued »