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Job and Career Articles for Job Seekers

Job Search Articles

Job Search

1.  A positive attitude is key to your job search success

2.  Advantages of job seeking on the internet

3.  Career networking and its place in your job hunt

4.  Creating a job search calendar

5.  Dealing with a bad job history

6.  Distributing your resume for a targeted job search

7.  Effective resume strategies for job search success

8.  Fighting the overqualified tag

9.  How to identify potential roles

10.  How to land the job of your dreams

11.  How to secure the job you really want

12.  How to select your professional references

13.  How transferable skills benefit your job search

14.  How you alone can influence your career

15.  Job hunting and the internet

16.  Leaving your current role is never easy

17.  Locating an appropriate internship

18.  Long distance job searching

19. Making your experience count

20. Quantifying your achievements

21. Recognizing your worth

22. Relating your academic background to your career

23. Standing out from the crowd

24. The benefits of a career jobs fair

25. The benefits of online networking

26. The challenges for entry-level job seekers

27. The competitive job market

28. The detrimental mistakes that job hunters make

29. The facts about networking

30. The it job market and competition

31. The reasons why highly qualified candidates fail to secure a new role

32. The stresses of job searching

 

 Resume

1. An effective summary - an important part of the resume puzzle

2. Avoid resume mistakes that eliminate you

3. Can your resume capture an employers attention

4. Create a resume that gets you the interview

5. Create a resume that showcases your accomplishments

6. Creative resume writing - stick to the facts

7. Defining your career through your resume

8. Effective resume strategies for job search success

9. Five reasons why plain text can help your job search

10. Five ways faking resume information will hurt you

11. Fundamental rules of effective resume writing

12. Making the first impression count

13. Match your resume to your career goals

14. Prepare your resume for an online job search

15. Resume blasting-pros and cons

16. Resume presentation the important facts

17. Resume writing myths

18. Securing a career change with your resume

19. Select the correct resume format

20. Simple resume errors that will cost you dearly

21. Smart resumes say more with less

22. The essentials of resume writing

23. Tips for creating a credible resume

24. Understand the essentials when submitting your resume online

25. What do hr professionals want in a resume

26. Why long resumes don't work

27. Why resume lies always get found out

28. Why your resume determines your career

29. Why your resume won't make the grade

30. Words that make your resume stand out

31. Words that weaken your resume

32. Your resume is a living document

 Interview

1. Avoiding common interview mistakes

2. Dealing with difficult interview situations when you have little work experience

3. Dealing with the question of a poor boss at an interview

4. Dress for success

5. Evaluating your interview skills

6. How to answer personal questions during an interview

7. How to answer questions on weakness

8. How to handle a second interview

9. How to make a lasting impression

10. How to succeed at phone interviews

11. Interview non-verbal’s

12. Knowing when to stop during interviews

13. Performing well during a behavioral interview

14. Projecting confidence at interview

15. Promoting a positive image at an interview

16. Securing an interview callback

17. The answers behind interview call backs 

 

Career Advancement

1. Be open minded about your career hopes and direction

2. Develop strong professional relationships to fast forward your career

3. Don't be afraid to change track throughout your career

4. Identify and evaluate your career goals and aspirations

5. Know your competition both internally and externally

6. Performance coaching and the benefit to career advancement

7. Top tips for moving your career to the next level

8. Why training and development should be continuous

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Career Testing

1. Aptitude tests and their role in the job search

2. Assessing your personality through psychometric testing

3. Career testing - assessing your numerical reasoning skills

4. Career tests - assessing your problem solving ability

5. Common testing mistakes

6. Coping with stress in testing situations

7. How credible is psychometric evaluation

8. Key points on psychometric testing

9. Online career test - assessing your verbal reasoning skills

10. Personality profiling

11. Preparing for psychometric testing

12. Related methodologies to succeed in testing situations

13. The benefits of psychometric testing in candidate evaluation

14. Understanding aptitude testing