by Esther
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You may have already seen this on TV Ones’s Breakfast this morning, Paul Henry was all over it. The retail store Crane Brothers are looking for staff and have written an ‘interesting’ (read: antagonistic and controversial!) advertisement to attract potential employees. I’m not sure I would be rushing to apply though, how about you?
by Esther
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From CIO News Roundup today:
By Divina Paredes | Thursday, August 13 2009
Your network is your personal brand, you should grow it regardless of the economic situation.
Your network is the amount of people you know. That is your personal brand; grow it regardless of the economic situation, advises former Merrill Lynch stockbroker turned strategic communications consultant Mark Jeffries.
At last week’s SAS Premier Business Leadership Series in Singapore, Jeffries shares what he calls the “three Rs of networking” – radar, reach and reward.
He then discussed how conference delegates can apply these strategies to networking within the business environment:
Radar: After meeting someone of interest put yourself on that person’s radar. For instance, reach out to that person within a week of the meeting. An example is sending an email to the person you met at a conference or a work-related situation.
Reach: The next step is to add a personal note in the email, saying where you met and adding some detail of a conversation you had, for instance, on sushi.
Reward: You “reward” the person by adding a link to a great website on sushi.
At the very least, says Jeffries, you should get a reply and you never know when you will need a new connection.
by Esther
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Does your CV look like a list of all NZ companies that currently employ IT professionals? This is a common problem, especially among the “Gen-Y” group who don’t seem to stay employed in the same job longer then a couple of years - gone are the days of working your way up from the tea-boy/girl to CEO over the course of a 40 year career at one company! A CV without at least one long term role on it however can pose problems when you are looking for your next role. It is true that many clients will discount a candidate immediately because they don’t want to take the risk of hiring someone who may move on again within a year or two. Click on ‘Read More’ to see the full article on how to deal with this problem from today’s CIO magazine.
As recruiters we wouldn’t recommend including just the years and not the months as the dates worked in a position, and I certainly wouldn’t suggest removing entire jobs from the CV (you will still need to explain the gap) - total honesty is the best policy. Manyof the other tactics are great advice though. And if you are using a recruiter then even better - it is their job to deliver all your details to the client in the best possible light.
by Esther
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If you want to land a good job and be happy, it’s really important to ask the right questions.
With job opportunities so scarce these days, job seekers are under tremendous pressure to impress hiring managers during job interviews. In fact, they’re so caught up in making a good impression that it’s easy for job seekers to forget that the job interview remains their opportunity to assess a prospective employer’s corporate culture and to determine whether that work environment will suit them, says Vanessa Hall, author of The Truth About Trust in Business (Emerald Book Company, 2009.)
