Every recruiter’s pet peeve- when a girlfriend, boyfriend, best friend, wife; or in this case- parent, phones on behalf of their child to find out about jobs. When you are starting your career, there is not a lot on your CV...
Gone are the days of looking for a job in the local newspapers. Today you look for employment opportunities digitally. And the number one place is on Job Portals. A job portal, also known as a career portal or employment...
“Researchers selected a large number of people who had made New Year’s resolutions. They then divided these people into two categories: those who had set New Year’s resolutions and written them down and those who had set New Year’s resolutions...
“Your ability to discipline yourself and set clear goal for yourself and then work towards them every day will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor. You need to have goals to accomplish worthwhile things in life. You...
“Your intelligence is like a double-edge sord: It can cut in either direction. You can use your intelligence to rationalize, justify, and blame other people for things you are not happy about, or you can use your intelligence to find...
20 Years ago when I started my business, I shut each year from the 15th of December to the 15th of January. A lot of companies shut for “builders shut down”. But the world has changed, and a lot of...
I personally am not a fan of a one or two page CV… but neither am I of the 10 page CV! When you are asked to submit a short CV, you should not be asking yourself “What can I take...
There is plenty of information out there about what to wear to an interview, what colours and styles best suite your body. But what about the clothes that best suits your personality? You need to dress opposite to your personality, to...
The relief I see on people’s faces, when I say this in an interview! I have been in recruitment for 25 years, and I still don’t know all the jobs out there, possibly because there are new employee requirements each day,...
Believe it or not, interview nerves are not all that bad! Nerves often come when our sympathetic nervous system is activated- that fight or flight response that was designed to keep us safe from danger. In an interview, if our sympathetic...
