Why Job Seekers Should Doodle More
According to The Doodle Revolution, a brilliant book by Sunni Brown, doodling unlocks your creativity, enhances your memory and lights
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How to Write a Compelling CV Summary
The CV summary might be the only part that a hiring manager or recruiter reads. If it is not compelling,
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How Do Recruiters Source on LinkedIn?
Any successful recruiter knows that they need to be hyper-efficient whenever they open LinkedIn. While the content of the LinkedIn
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The Dangers of Gaming During a Job Search
I assume that you are most likely long past the spotty teenager stage, but the fact remains that a huge
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That Job Search Moment When We Forget Who We Are
Under the intense pressure of a job search it is all too easy to forget who we are. Let me
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You Can’t Climb a Mountain in Ballet Shoes
The phrase “you can do anything you set your mind to” often comes with a whole heap of conditions to
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The Dangers and Opportunities of Repetition
As our careers and lives develop, there is sometimes a sense of deja-vu. Repetition often rhymes. We tend to be
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Hungry Job Seekers Channel Their Inner Humpback
Whether you are looking for a job or hunting anchovies, it makes sense to concentrate your “prey” into a condensed
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4 Ways to Improve Your Interview Vocabulary
You don’t want to search for the right words during an interview. No matter how amazing you are at your
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50 Common Interview Questions
When you only have 60 minutes with a potential new hire, much as you would like to ask lots of
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How to Deal With Silence in an Interview
Silence in any conversation is entirely normal. However, when you only have 60 minutes to impress a potential boss, silence
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How Do You Start a Cover Letter?
Imagine walking into an interview and choosing how to start the conversation. What would you wish to highlight? How would
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Adopt an Elastic Mentality if You Want to Bounce
My dad taught me Physics when I was at school. Although science wasn’t really my thing, I tried my best.
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How to Answer “Tell Me About Yourself”
You can guarantee that “tell me about yourself” (or a similar variation) will crop up early in most interviews. It
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16 Reasons You Are Not Getting Interview Invites
You send off the application with hope in your heart. Then wait for a positive reply. But you are not
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Should Job Seekers be Wary of Recruitment Chatbots
Every interaction with your future employer could make a difference. Even if they are not a real person. Recruitment chatbots
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Is a Professional Video CV Worth It?
Any job seeker should constantly question the return on the time they invest in various job search activities. “I could
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14 Tips to Grow Your LinkedIn Network
Job seekers will spend a lot of time on LinkedIn during their job search. You definitely should. Success will depend
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How to Find the Right Interview Words
“I wish I had said it differently.” You only get one chance to find the right interview words. Many candidates
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How to Ace a Telephone Interview
There is more to preparing for a telephone interview than charging your phone and ensuring that you are sitting somewhere
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How to Answer “Why Are You Interested in the Role?”
Every employer wants to feel special. Understanding the deeper motivations behind why an applicant is interested in the role will
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How to Spot a Toxic Boss at Interview
Every boss will try to hide their harmful tendencies during an interview with a potential new employee. Spotting a toxic
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5 Types of Visualisation for Interview Preparation
No matter how suited you might be to the role, any interview is a nerve-wracking experience. Your self-confidence is tested,
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Celebrate Small Victories in Your Job Search
Any journey should be punctuated by moments when you pause, take stock to look at how far you have come
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How a Growth Mindset Enables a Career Pivot
Careers only grow when people take the chance to improve their talents and abilities. This sometimes requires a career pivot.
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How to Write an Interview Follow-Up Email
An immediate interview follow-up email should land in the inbox of your interviewer within 24 hours of meeting them. Give
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The Benefits of a Portfolio Career for Older Professionals
When you have been working for a couple of decades, you will likely have developed a varied skill set across
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Why I Love my HB Pencil
There is a high probability that my HB pencil is defective, but I don’t care. No innuendo intended, for those
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8 Lessons in Creativity from John Cleese
There is no one in the world more qualified to give lessons in creativity than John Cleese. For those who
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Don’t Overshare in the First Interview
While employers want to get to know you before they offer you the job when the process involves more than
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How to Improve Your Job Search Writing Skills
As the hiring manager for your dream job clicks open on your job application, your words are all you have.
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What to Do if You Say Something Stupid at Interview
Effective communication is a tricky skill to master at the best of times. When you are under the pressure of
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How to Answer “Tell Me About a Time When You Made a Mistake”
Admitting, taking responsibility, and learning from mistakes is normal for any employee accustomed to risk-taking and pushing the limits of
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How to Proofread Job Search Content
As you write your CV and cover letters, part of your mind will be skipping on to thoughts of interviews,
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How Unemployed Job Seekers Optimise Their LinkedIn Headline
One of the first priorities for a social job search is that job seekers optimise their LinkedIn headline. “Unemployed at
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How to Get the Job Over the Internal Candidate
There are few more dreaded phrases in the job search process: “There is an internal candidate.” Many companies will share
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Why Are You Scared to Mention Your Kids at Interview?
Just because it isn’t a legal requirement to mention your kids at interview to a potential employer (and it is
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How Do You Incorporate Humour in an Interview?
When we feel that we are getting on with someone, it is the most natural thing in the world to
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How Positive Desperation Can be Good for Your Job Search
Positive desperation is an entirely normal feeling in a job search. Many of us really (really) need a job, so
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Should Job Seekers Share Opinions on Social Media?
Taking part in social media discussions is part of our digital life. Job seekers share opinions on socials – like
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Five Considerations for Your Second Interview
Any second interview is a “make or break” occasion, full of subtlety and nuance. Employers understood from the first interview
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How Can You Maximise the Visual Impact of a CV?
Our brains are hardwired to process visual content in the “blink” of an eye. Some research has suggested that we
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3 Types of Memory Recall for Your Interview
An interview is not the time to put your memory to the test. Memory recall for your interview should be
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200+ Action Verbs for your CV
Lazy CVs are filled with descriptive adjectives and long-winded explanations. While you may be a “visionary leader who thinks outside
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6 Interview Questions About Diversity and Why They Matter
There are few more critical questions to assess cultural fit than interview questions about diversity and inclusion. So many companies
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How to Score a Job at a Start-Up
A year working in the pressure-cooker environment of a start-up can equate to three years of work in a “normal”
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How Data-Driven Experimentation Can Shape Your Job Search
Job hunting (like any marketing activity) is a numbers game. Much as you might hope that your “perfect” application to
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Exploring 6 Types of Job Interview
There are many types of job interview. Every recruitment process is different and will include a variety of situations that
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Use This Sticky Job Search Marketing Hack
At the very core of great marketing lies a simple truth. Focus on the one thing that resonates most with
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What Keeps a Job Seeker Awake at Night?
It’s been a long day, the interview didn’t go as planned, and you are trying to get off to sleep.
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Why a Job Search is the No1 Catalyst for Life Change
When a catalyst for life change comes along, it is natural to assess how your potential new circumstances might fit
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Should You Discuss Your Mental Health at Interview
Simple answer. No. Don’t mention your mental health at interview. Why? Because (sadly) people will likely discriminate against you. Maybe
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14 Activities to Enhance Your Emotional Intelligence
Seeking to enhance your emotional intelligence to better understand yourself and others is a critical requirement of a successful job
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8 Types of Unconscious Bias That May Affect Your Job Search
Unconscious bias works two ways in the interview room. A candidate walks in and sits opposite their future boss, but
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Ice-Cream Can’t Choose Not to Melt
When ice cream is taken out of the fridge, it changes its state. It usually takes a couple of minutes
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Mindfulness in a Job Search: Find Your Peace
A state of mindfulness in a job search is not easy to come by. Maybe you’ve not been working for
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Why I am Fed Up of Living Like a Zombie
Some people are more susceptible to ingrained habits than others. Now, I’m not an expert on zombies, but it seems
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Daddy? Have You Lost Your Job?
“Daddy, why are you spending so much time at home now? You never used to be home this early? I
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How to Side-Step the Stress in Your Job Search
Imagine walking through a forest at twilight, the trees blending into each other in the darkness and the path ahead
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Nine Steps to Dismiss Disappointment
Disappointments are an entirely natural part of a fulfilling life. When your hope or expectation of something is not met,
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How to Sleep Well in a Job Search
It is 1.15 am. Your brain can’t switch off, and you feel on edge. Your interview might be in five
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15 Marketing Lessons for Your Job Search
Any job search is primarily an exercise in marketing. I thought that I would share 15 marketing lessons straight out
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How Can Cyber Vetting Impact a Job Search?
It is incredible just how much online data can be mined about you and your social media activity. In an
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How Embracing Solitude Enables a Step-Change Mindset
It is hard to think differently when surrounded by the same people and stuff. Embracing solitude and seeking a clean
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Overcoming the Five Mental Hurdles of Resilience
Our ability to cope with stress and adversity has little to do with “bouncing back.” The hurdles of resilience just
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How to Harness Social Proof in a Job Search
Research has shown that 60% of employers will look at a candidate’s LinkedIn profile. Most hiring managers will conduct a
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How to Sprinkle the Right CV Keywords
The first job of your CV is to survive the parsing of the ATS. The second job is to tempt
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What Should You Not Include on a CV?
When it comes to the question of what to not include on a CV, there is also a host of
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Are You Writing a Future-Focused CV?
We have all done some remarkable things in our careers. Some days, we have smashed it out of the park
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Is an Experienced CV Writer Worth the Investment?
When you are sharing your story with a stranger, every word matters. Hiring managers have not met you before, so
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What is the Ideal Structure of a Cover Letter?
A cover letter is a free-flowing personal mission statement that outlines your fit with each specific role and your motivations
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5 Reasons to Tailor a CV – Nearly Every Time
Choosing to tailor a CV to match the demands of each role makes sense on every level. The hiring manager
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Will Your CV Pass the ATS Test?
With the volume of applicants that many employers need to process, it is not surprising that most HR departments have
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Should You Include an Address on a Cover Letter?
It is crucial to spend time doing the things that matter during a job search. Do you include an address
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How to Discuss Salary at Interview
You are approaching that moment of truth. You think that you have impressed your potential boss enough, and you prepare
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How to Sell Youself in an Interview
When you have an hour to weave your career stories to sell yourself in an interview, there is time for
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The Sneaky Role of Selective Honesty in an Interview
Everything that you say about your career accomplishments, skills, and experiences during an interview (or in job search correspondence) should
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20 Things to Never Say at Interview
An interview is a high-stakes situation when the pressure of the moment can cause a candidate to say things that
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How to Answer: “Why Should We Hire You?”
This is one question that will keep an interviewer up at night. Why should we hire you? When they have
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How Would You Answer These 40 Competency Questions?
There is no single ideal answer to each of the competency questions in this article. How you answer them if
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20 Questions to Ask About Employer Culture
You can come out of an interview safe in the knowledge that you made a compelling case to employ you.
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How to Cope With Social Anxiety in an Interview
Many things can trigger Social Anxiety Disorder during an interview. You have likely never met these people before. They will
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Try Not to Talk Too Much in an Interview
The pressure to talk too much in an interview can be overwhelming. When you are talking, you feel as if
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6 Tips to Ace a Panel Interview
A panel interview with multiple interviewers could be compared to a firing squad. You can press the mental slow-motion button
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The Role of Humility in an Interview
Amidst the intense self-absorption of a job search, it is easy to forget that there are other characters in your
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12 Do’s and Don’ts of a Mobile-First Job Search
That fantastic little device in your pocket can be an incredible weapon in your job search arsenal. When you are
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