When it comes to looking for your ideal job, finding the perfect fit goes beyond just skills and qualifications. Understanding and aligning with a company’s culture and values are integral to long-term job satisfaction and success. In this blog post, we’ll explore the significance of this alignment and provide practical guidance for job seekers on how to navigate this crucial
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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Red & Green Flags – How to Spot a Good Career Opportunity
Recruitment and Talent Acquisition can be a challenging journey. It’s vital to remember that while employers are looking for the perfect fit for their organisations, you, as a job seeker, are also looking for the ideal company for your career. Toxic work environments can be disheartening, and it’s crucial to avoid them. According to a survey by Jobvite, a third
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Your Job Search journey – The YES, NO, and WHOA
Embarking on a job search can be both gratifying and frustrating. On the one hand, it serves as a journey of self-discovery, revealing what you want from a prospective employer. Yet, it can also prove to be a difficult road marked by rejection, abandonment, and, in the worst cases, encounters with deceitful job scammers. We delve into all of these
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7 Ways to Use Job Portals to get Hired!
Job Portals are great to help you find a job! They are world-wide and allow you to create a profile, search for jobs, upload your CV, create your CV and best of all allow you to show your skills to the clients on the Job Portal. In short Job Portals help you find a job – now how to use them to your advantage:
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3 Rules for a Successful Job Search
No one’s ever excited about a job search. Not only is it hard work, the constant cycle of built-up expectations and rejection can be emotionally taxing too. Thankfully, there are ways to make it easier for yourself. Here are 3 rules that will help you make your job search a success. 1. Don’t apply for every role you see When
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How to find a (great) job in South Africa?
Over my 23-year career I have been in one of these situations at any one time and learnt some things along the way. We hope by sharing how to find a job – helps you in winning half the battle in getting a job.
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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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3 Intelligent ways to search for a job
Job Searching can be tiring and monotonous but are you searching intelligently? We give you some tips on how to go ‘incognito’, using other browsers for different results and how to do ‘boolean’ searches.
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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: