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Resume How to’s

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This fortnight’s question comes from Jodie F, when she asks Dear Annemarie: I was in Public Relations for seven years and then transitioned into Human Resources Management. How can I incorporate that experience with my Human Resources experience? If I list every job, my resume will be three pages or more. Also, no one wants [...]

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Graduates: Must-do strategies to enhance your job application

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Recently, I attended a career fair at one of our local universities with many of the career development educators and industry representatives sharing some interesting and critical information that all graduates and current students should be aware of. Employers are now more than ever placing greater emphasis on a candidate’s employability skills than they are [...]

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How do I address career breaks in my resume?

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This fortnight’s question comes from Susanne, when she asks: Dear Annemarie Due to family-related circumstances I had to give up my job some 18 months ago and am now looking at re-entering the workforce. Is it proper to put on a resume "Sabbatical" or should it be explained more? – Susanne. Dear Susanne, An important [...]

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Is your résumé ‘interview worthy’?

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The increasing competitiveness of today’s job market now requires a job seeker to be far more assertive in their overall job search, particularly when it comes to developing their career-marketing document – the résumé. With a window of opportunity often as little as 10 seconds for the résumé to spark the reader’s attention, this demands [...]

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Is your resume interview worthy?

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The increasing competitiveness of today’s job market now requires a job seeker to be far more assertive in their overall job search, particularly when it comes to developing their career-marketing document – the résumé. This fortnight’s article presents some strategic ‘must-do’ résumé writing tips. [Audio version of Career Communique x-Press newsletter. Prefer to read the [...]

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Considering a career change?

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A recent poll conducted by Web Portal Yahoo of 2,600 workers found that 47% of them were actively looking for another job or planned to begin looing within the next 12 months. Quite a significant proportion! To read the article: http://www.jobbankusa.com/News/Jobs/jobs70604a.html If you are considering a career move make sure that you have a professional [...]

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Cyber Reference Checking: Would you survive?

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In our Beware Your Blogging Posts [March 2006] post we cautioned people with personal blogs to keep their posts at a professional level due to the possibility of current (or future employers, key stakeholders and influential people) stumbling across it. For those of you with a personal blog we suggested that before posting a comment [...]

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Beware your blogging posts!

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…they may just come back to haunt you. Web logs (other wise known as ‘blogs’) have been around for some time, however, lately there seems to have been a sudden surge of people, (young and not-so-young) setting up personal blogs. Branding specialists worldwide advocate the use of blogs as another medium and potential opportunity to [...]

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Positions in hot demand – globally!

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If you are a sales representative, driver, engineer, personnel assistant, accountant or production operator – then apparently things are definitely looking up for you in the job market on an international scale. A recent study completed by Manpower surveyed approximately 33,000 companies from 23 countries with findings confirming their HR departments were experiencing difficulties in [...]

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Beware the candidate screening software

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According to a latest report by Seek, to cope with the vast numbers of online applications, numerous private and government recruitment agencies are now using sophisticated software to sort through job seeker applications. As this is a growing trend, it does have implications as to how your resume is structured. As a job seeker, you [...]

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