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All about work, jobs and careers: Your workplace image inside and out
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All about work, jobs and careers. All about finding and keeping the job you want. Getting back into the workforce and all the tools to help you be successful. Friday, August 21, 2009. Your workplace image inside and out. When you are job searching you need to pay attention to your workplace image inside and out. What do I mean by that? Well, you are probably aware that how you dress for an interview has a massive effect on how employable the interviewer considers you. Inside is a more difficult problem.
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All about work, jobs and careers: December 2008
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All about work, jobs and careers. All about finding and keeping the job you want. Getting back into the workforce and all the tools to help you be successful. Sunday, December 28, 2008. A Positive Attitude is crucial to your job search. Do you know the number one thing that employers hire for? You can teach someone skills such as how to use a computer, welding or landscaping, but how can you teach someone to have a great attitude? Work at changing it. Posted by Fiona MacKay. Saturday, December 27, 2008.
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The Ace Your Interview Blog: Interviews: Demonstrate skills with stories
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The Ace Your Interview Blog. Friday, April 24, 2009. Interviews: Demonstrate skills with stories. When I facilitate workshops on interview skills,. So many participants have trouble identifying what skills are included in their stories. The chances are, no story only demonstrates one skill. Each story will demonstrate many skills. And it's your job as the job applicant/ interviewee to know what skills each story includes and tell the employer. Don't assume that the employer will identify them. Stories ar...
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All about work, jobs and careers: Phone Empoyers: Just do it!
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All about work, jobs and careers. All about finding and keeping the job you want. Getting back into the workforce and all the tools to help you be successful. Friday, April 24, 2009. Phone Empoyers: Just do it! No-one likes making cold calls. However the question is: what is more important to you - avoiding making cold calls or getting a job? If getting a job is more important, make the cold calls! Just take it at face value and move on to the next call. If they say no, ask if they know who is hiring.
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All about work, jobs and careers: February 2009
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All about work, jobs and careers. All about finding and keeping the job you want. Getting back into the workforce and all the tools to help you be successful. Thursday, February 26, 2009. Go where the employers go. Where do employers go when they're out of the office? One of the places they go is the local Chamber of Commerce, or Business Centre for the city or town. These organizations usually host monthly "mixers", often for free and open to non-members at least for one visit. Need more help with your ...
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All about work, jobs and careers: Job Hunting: let your fingers do the walking
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All about work, jobs and careers. All about finding and keeping the job you want. Getting back into the workforce and all the tools to help you be successful. Thursday, April 30, 2009. Job Hunting: let your fingers do the walking. Less and less of us let our fingers do the walking through paper pages any more. It's all online. But ye olde yellow pages still have their uses in job search. At the front of your yellow pages is an index. It lists all the categories that appear later on in the book. Freelance...
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The Resume Blog: Resumes need action verbs
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All about Resumes. Fire up your resume to get you more interviews faster. Written by a Certified Career Development Practitioner. Need Individual help to write your Resume? I will work with you, individually, to write a dynamic Resume. Saturday, January 17, 2009. Resumes need action verbs. When you write a resume. Make sure you include action verbs. Activated, initiated, created: these are all action verbs. They state that you DID something. Here are a few more action verbs. Posted by Fiona MacKay. Do ha...
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The Resume Blog: December 2008
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All about Resumes. Fire up your resume to get you more interviews faster. Written by a Certified Career Development Practitioner. Need Individual help to write your Resume? I will work with you, individually, to write a dynamic Resume. Sunday, December 28, 2008. Resume formats: do I write my interests in my resume? Should you write your interests in your resume? The one time your interests absolutely should be included are when you are using skils gained through them, to get this job. All of this would s...
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The Resume Blog: Resumes: Don't overstate your abilities
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All about Resumes. Fire up your resume to get you more interviews faster. Written by a Certified Career Development Practitioner. Need Individual help to write your Resume? I will work with you, individually, to write a dynamic Resume. Friday, April 24, 2009. Resumes: Don't overstate your abilities. One of the things that turn employers off is a resume that is so overstated that it's hard to believe anyone could be that good. Be realistic and truthful. It's good to show how good you are in your resume,.
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The Resume Blog: July 2009
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All about Resumes. Fire up your resume to get you more interviews faster. Written by a Certified Career Development Practitioner. Need Individual help to write your Resume? I will work with you, individually, to write a dynamic Resume. Saturday, July 11, 2009. I have recently discovered some "Cloud Resumes" and wonder what on earth these people are thinking! A "Cloud", in case you are unfamiliar with the term, is a graphically pleasing way to illustrate a list or large group of words. Here are some reall...
