According to LinkedIn most employers will start a job interview with the question: “Tell us about yourself”, when you combine this with the fact that most employers will also make a hiring decision within the first 10 minutes of a job interview, answering this question effectively is crucial to the success of your interview.
Knowing how to answer this question effectively can make or break your chances.
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Circumnavigating the different forums and social networks there is a question that seems to crop up time and again from those who are about to embark on a job hunt - "Are CV Templates Worth It?". In this article, we aim to settle this issue once and for all.
Job searching can be frenetic, with so much going on it can be difficult to ensure you don't miss an opportunity. So to ease the burden a tiny bit make LinkedIn Job alerts your new favourite tool. Their clever reminders and notifications will do some of the hard work for you.
Attending a job interview under prepared is a horrible experience, I've been in enough to see confident candidates slowly unravel in front of me. This article will provides a 10 step process and a 29 point checklist to ensure you get it right.
We’re pretty big on our job search printables at the Career Improvement Club, so with this in mind we’ve provided this handy little check list to help you move through the process of job searching without missing any important updates or tasks along the way.
Employers often receive hundreds if not thousands of applications to their graduate vacancies (making the life of a Graduate Recruiter a particularly stressful one)! Competition for good professional jobs is tight!
This article is for successful graduates / students looking to create an awesome CV and uncover some amazing job search tips that will help beat other graduate job seekers to the best vacancies.
For all its faults and bad press social media can play an essential role within the recruitment lifecycle. While most individuals use it for communication and entertainment, businesses (and most notably employers) use social media as an information platform, with mainstream uses including customer service, marketing promotion and also recruitment.
By sending a follow up to your job application it reinforces your interest in the company, reminding employers you're still available and keen and it also bumps your details to the top of their inbox and to the front of their minds.
In this article, we’ll give some tips on when to follow up on your job application or job interview, and provide some best practices when doing so. Read on...
With 93% of employers checking social media profiles before making a job offer don’t overlook the importance of getting this right. This article offers up all the tips and tricks you need to create a killer LinkedIn profile.