Improve your chances of getting that dream job. Understand how recruiters think and what the recruitment process is really about.
About hiring, recruiting and applying for a job.
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The Path To Value Pricing: How to Remove Your Self-Imposed Income Limits
If you’re like most consultants, you bill yourself out on an hourly basis. This process effectively devalues your services and puts a cap on your income. In this session, Jonathan talks about how hourly billing holds your business back, prevents you from doing your best work, and can even damage your relationships with clients. Jonathan will describe an alternative method called value pricing and will give you a few ways to transition your business from hourly billing to value pricing.
"Why am I not getting onto the shortlist? I'm perfectly qualified, I'm exactly what they are looking for; but I'm sending my CV off and never hearing anything back. HELP!"
Simple things, done badly, can KILL your chances on the hunt. Simple things, done well, make all the difference ...
From a lecture at the Career Zoo in Dublin, February 2013.
A job interview needn't feel like the Spanish Inquisition - some simple thoughts that will help you avoid the costly mistakes that most candidates make.
Are You a Freelancer? Here's Why You Should Stop Acting Like OneVirginia Bautista
To thrive as a freelancer, you need to think and act like an entrepreneur, not as a freelancer. Here are 5 ways to do this and how it will help you succeed. This is based on this article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-freelancer-heres-why-should-stop-acting-like-one-bautista
The Path To Value Pricing: How to Remove Your Self-Imposed Income Limits
If you’re like most consultants, you bill yourself out on an hourly basis. This process effectively devalues your services and puts a cap on your income. In this session, Jonathan talks about how hourly billing holds your business back, prevents you from doing your best work, and can even damage your relationships with clients. Jonathan will describe an alternative method called value pricing and will give you a few ways to transition your business from hourly billing to value pricing.
"Why am I not getting onto the shortlist? I'm perfectly qualified, I'm exactly what they are looking for; but I'm sending my CV off and never hearing anything back. HELP!"
Simple things, done badly, can KILL your chances on the hunt. Simple things, done well, make all the difference ...
From a lecture at the Career Zoo in Dublin, February 2013.
A job interview needn't feel like the Spanish Inquisition - some simple thoughts that will help you avoid the costly mistakes that most candidates make.
Are You a Freelancer? Here's Why You Should Stop Acting Like OneVirginia Bautista
To thrive as a freelancer, you need to think and act like an entrepreneur, not as a freelancer. Here are 5 ways to do this and how it will help you succeed. This is based on this article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-freelancer-heres-why-should-stop-acting-like-one-bautista
This e-book is structured into three segments to help take you step-by-step through certain considerations in your job search - from learning about how to search for roles, to writing the best CV, and finally how to completely nail the interview.
There is much work to be done.
For a market like Nigeria, adjudged by Microsave as having less than 3,000 active MFS agents by Dec 2013, we should roll up our sleeves and stop trading buzzwords.
This presentation is hinged on the back of a 2013 nationwide survey that gave birth to BeyondBranches. It shares some of the findings, starting from the importance of proposition clarity and benefits communication.
It helps profile an average Nigerian agent, identifies words that belong more in our conferences and offices that may mean nothing yet to the MSME target on the field.
It identifies pockets of Financial exclusion even in tier-1 Nigerian cities and indicates what BeyondBranches IS DOING today to fill this gap.
Job Applications: How to Stand Out in a Group InterviewRed Tape Busters
Redtape Busters is specialized in resume and job application writing all over Australia. We can assist you to write and fine-tune your job application, resume and selection criteria responses.
If you don’t have a purpose or goals, you’re just drifting around. If you're drifting, decisions are more difficult to make, and it takes a lot longer to find success. Set career goals, and think about how you might work them in and achieve them. Think about how you will handle career/personal life balance as many of the greatest personal events in your life come around.
We reached out to our community to ask their experience of career advice and interview advice (both bad and good). This is what you had to say about your worst career advice, and your best interview tips.
The most common 7 Mistakes Newbie Professional Organizers Make when they are starting out. Written by Karen Koedding, Australia's First Certified Professional Organizer ®.
Join EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes, as he talks about the need to get proactive with your career. Harrison has dedicated his career to showing people how to be proactive in their job searches.
The first thing you can do to be proactive is make sure that you are in fact seeing all of the job openings that are out there. Not seeing every job in the market would be a huge mistake. Further, you need to apply for every single job you can find, even if it looks like it may be a smaller possibility.
Finding a job in today’s economy is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Good job opportunities are few, and the competition for them is fierce. In this short report, you will find Six Interview Tips that you should immediately put into practice. These six tips will increase your chances of landing your dream job.
We need good employees working in the affordable and public housing industries. That’s why Navigate is releasing a new series of white papers about human resources. These papers will look at issues like interviewing & hiring, on-boarding your new hire, training and follow-up. Navigate’s Human Resources Director Dale Marcus wrote the series for us. She’s been with Navigate for almost 15 years. She knows her stuff when it comes to employee relations, workforce planning and talent acquisition.
The first white paper in the series deals with Interviewing and Hiring. Do you know how expensive it is to replace an employee with a new one? The cost of employee turnover can be steep. Dale’s tips focus on making sure you hire the right person the first time so that it’s a good fit that will last for quite some time.
When assessing potential call center agents, experience in similar job function is less decisive than possessing personality traits & skill sets in the job.
This e-book is structured into three segments to help take you step-by-step through certain considerations in your job search - from learning about how to search for roles, to writing the best CV, and finally how to completely nail the interview.
There is much work to be done.
For a market like Nigeria, adjudged by Microsave as having less than 3,000 active MFS agents by Dec 2013, we should roll up our sleeves and stop trading buzzwords.
This presentation is hinged on the back of a 2013 nationwide survey that gave birth to BeyondBranches. It shares some of the findings, starting from the importance of proposition clarity and benefits communication.
It helps profile an average Nigerian agent, identifies words that belong more in our conferences and offices that may mean nothing yet to the MSME target on the field.
It identifies pockets of Financial exclusion even in tier-1 Nigerian cities and indicates what BeyondBranches IS DOING today to fill this gap.
Job Applications: How to Stand Out in a Group InterviewRed Tape Busters
Redtape Busters is specialized in resume and job application writing all over Australia. We can assist you to write and fine-tune your job application, resume and selection criteria responses.
If you don’t have a purpose or goals, you’re just drifting around. If you're drifting, decisions are more difficult to make, and it takes a lot longer to find success. Set career goals, and think about how you might work them in and achieve them. Think about how you will handle career/personal life balance as many of the greatest personal events in your life come around.
We reached out to our community to ask their experience of career advice and interview advice (both bad and good). This is what you had to say about your worst career advice, and your best interview tips.
The most common 7 Mistakes Newbie Professional Organizers Make when they are starting out. Written by Karen Koedding, Australia's First Certified Professional Organizer ®.
Join EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, A. Harrison Barnes, as he talks about the need to get proactive with your career. Harrison has dedicated his career to showing people how to be proactive in their job searches.
The first thing you can do to be proactive is make sure that you are in fact seeing all of the job openings that are out there. Not seeing every job in the market would be a huge mistake. Further, you need to apply for every single job you can find, even if it looks like it may be a smaller possibility.
Finding a job in today’s economy is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Good job opportunities are few, and the competition for them is fierce. In this short report, you will find Six Interview Tips that you should immediately put into practice. These six tips will increase your chances of landing your dream job.
We need good employees working in the affordable and public housing industries. That’s why Navigate is releasing a new series of white papers about human resources. These papers will look at issues like interviewing & hiring, on-boarding your new hire, training and follow-up. Navigate’s Human Resources Director Dale Marcus wrote the series for us. She’s been with Navigate for almost 15 years. She knows her stuff when it comes to employee relations, workforce planning and talent acquisition.
The first white paper in the series deals with Interviewing and Hiring. Do you know how expensive it is to replace an employee with a new one? The cost of employee turnover can be steep. Dale’s tips focus on making sure you hire the right person the first time so that it’s a good fit that will last for quite some time.
When assessing potential call center agents, experience in similar job function is less decisive than possessing personality traits & skill sets in the job.
76% of CV’s are ignored due to unprofessional email address. Gmail and Outlook.com are safe bets.
Recruiters are serving internal / external clients who are often very busy with something else i.e. their own job.
To tell you a little secret, recruiters are also just humans. We make mistakes and the biggest of them is letting first impressions affect us. Do not let us to make this mistake.
It’s self-evident that being late is a big no. But being too early is not good either. Arriving 15 minutes earlier is enough.
There are gazillion different attributes that affect the final decision.