Your curriculum vitae (CV) is your first impression on potential employers, and making it stand out is essential in today’s competitive job market. While crafting a stellar CV may seem daunting, incorporating a few key strategies can enhance your CV and significantly improve your chances of landing that dream job. 1. Tailor Your CV to Perfection One size does not
Job Seekers: 7 Quick Tips for Getting Noticed by Recruiters
Are you on the hunt for your dream job in a competitive job market? In the ever-evolving job landscape, standing out from the crowd is essential. This is your guide to getting notice by recruiters. To help you land that perfect position, we’ve gathered some creative tips that you can use when interacting with recruitment agencies, head hunters, and hiring
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What is the Best Color for Your CV? Study Reveals Most and Least Attractive Colors to Recruiters
Now days you need to stand out amongst the crowd, and even more so in a Recruiters Inbox. Wanting to know how to stand out is important but understanding colours will make you stand out even more. Find out some interesting studies on what each colour says about you and which one is the best.
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The pros and cons to adding a photo to your CV
When it comes to your CV or resume should you add a photo? Knowing about a natural bias that everyone has, the jury is still out on if it helps you land the job or does an automatic reject. If you are adamant to add a photo see some tips below, but remember about 50% of recruiters say do not add any photo.
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My story on how I stood out from the crowd (when job searching)
My story is not hugely different from many, I started my career with no degree as I did not know what I wanted to do for a living. I worked hard and I got retrenched, four times to be exact (twice I had to retrench myself as it was the company I was heading up). Each time I had to dust myself off and get back on to the job search challenge. And each time I figured out better and smarter ways to stand out from the crowd (the job search crowd). So today I thought I would share what I learnt each time ….
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5 reasons why you are not being shortlisted for interviews
When being retrenched or searching for a job, can cause you to be desperate for ‘anything’. And this can cause your job search to be endless – due to jobs such as ‘anything’ not existing. Here is what I learnt on how to be shortlisted for interviews: