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Okay, now you can do the resume. But, even more important is the lynchpin of your search--the two-minute pitch. The pitch will form the basis of all your self-marketing, your approach emails, your follow-ups to networking meetings, a way to brand yourself out there.

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Twitter and other social networks use these keywords to facilitate the search for specific topics. One prominent example of the last few months was the #Aufschrei (outcry) campaign. If a topic is being discussed intensively, it can make it to the national and international trending topics of Twitter ...

Too many job seekers make the fatal mistake of putting all their eggs in one basket. They apply for a couple of jobs, see one they really want, submit an application and wait.

Please don’t do this – ever! You might feel you’re the ‘perfect’ candidate for this role; there is no way anyone else would ...

Another problem can be if you list a hobby that has bad associations for an employer. I recruited for a company many years ago and I’ll never forget the manager pushing a perfectly good candidate’s resume back at me because ‘he is into body-building’. When I asked why this was a problem his response ...

I wrote this article for The Career Bible but it applies just as well to medical devices specialist roles and specialist nurses roles (Social-Hire Editor's Note: and indeed great advice for anyone thinking of a change of jobs this coming year!)


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A hot topic in 2013 that will continue in the months to come is building an employment brand that will give your company a competitive edge in recruiting generation Y candidates. As studies show, 85 percent of employers believe that a strong employment brand determines its ability to hire top talent ...

So far the feedback from employers (who include Nestle, Next, Xchanging) has been hugely positive as they can access the whole recruitment supply chain with minimum hassle. In fact, one client loves it so much they are thinking of transferring all their external recruitment to this model. It also ...

You’ve worked hard to get this job interview. It is vitally important that you succeed. Now, how do you prepare? It is your job to communicate what makes you uniquely suited for this job. Of course, you must do all the research necessary on the company and the interviewer, and then make sure you are ...

Every job applicant is hiding secrets and issues they fervently hope won’t come up in an interview. While we all have prepared a response to the dreaded “Tell me about your biggest weakness” question (You have, haven’t you?), there are always other minefields we hope to avoid.

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Despite the reporting gap, companies are definitely becoming savvier to the business benefits associated with happiness in the workplace. While often thought of as a nice, fluffy notion reserved for the HR industry alone, recent research from The University of Warwick shows that happy employees are ...