Jobseekers face a tougher road today than a year ago, when many companies couldn’t hire fast enough. So the questions applicants ask during the interview process are more important than ever to suss out if the role is a dream job — or a nightmare waiting to happen. Read the full article at: www.bloomberg.com...
6 Signs It’s Time to Look for a New Job
How long has it been since you met someone who started and ended his or her career at the same company? The days of working 40+ years for the same employer and retiring with a generous pension after years of company loyalty have been replaced with a new norm –…...
9 Signs You’re Not Taking Control Of Your Career
It’s not your fault. We have been taught that if you go to school, get a good job and do good work, everything will work itself out. We learned that things naturally fall in place when you follow all the rules. So, when you do everything right and excel at…...
8 Management Skills That Will Impress Every Recruiter
If you’ve landed on this article, we’ll assume that you’re starting your hunt for a new job. If you feel like it’s time to move on out of your current role and move on up to something new, it may also mean it’s time to rethink the way you present…...
How to Be Found by Recruiters on LinkedIn: 6 Important Tips
With all the rage around social media in job searching, LinkedIn stands out as the tool of choice for many recruiters to connect with job seekers (or future job seekers). Knowing how recruiters use the tool may shed some light on how to leverage LinkedIn in your own job search…...
4 Strategies For Executives Who Are Job Searching During COVID-19
The number of people who are unemployed due to COVID-19 is sky-high. From mid-March to early May, more than 30 million people in the U.S. filed for unemployment benefits. And, unfortunately, that number just keeps growing. When you combine that with all of the uncertainty around what life and business will…...
Finding a Job (During a Pandemic)
Finding a job, the right job can take time and it can be quite hard. During the pandemic that challenge has become exponentially harder for many people. This DIGEST examines the challenges of finding a job during this difficult time with some practical advice. You Are Not Alone No matter…...
How to set career goals and plan out your professional future
Setting goals is essential to advancing your career and feeling fulfilled by your job. Whether your employer requires you to set goals as part of your performance-review process or it is something you do voluntarily once a year with a pen and paper in your living room, it can help…...
What To Look For In The Ideal Employee
Just like most businesses and job functions, the hiring landscape has greatly changed over the past year. Interviews are now conducted virtually and are followed up with remote hiring and online onboarding for new executives. Candidates who can show they are skilled in adapting to changing times, tech-savvy and can…...
Career readiness is key to staying employed
A good job brings stability and a desired lifestyle. Couple that with a career you enjoy, and it’s easy to fall into a comfortable routine. But even in the best of times, you never know what lies ahead. Sometimes unforeseen circumstances can thrust you into the job market when you…...
CAREER ADVICE YOU NEED TO GET AHEAD
As you develop your professional career, you will come into contact with itsy bitsy pieces of career advice. Good advice will motivate and inspire you to do your best and be your best in the workplace. With that in mind, we’ve etched five pieces of career advice to help you…...
How to get the job you deserve
You’ve got the qualifications, but suddenly it seems like everyone else does too… And when you’re competing for the top accountancy and bookkeeping roles, how do you stand out? Are you experienced? If your CV looks a bit thin on the work experience front, then this is a great place…...
How to reach your careers goals in 2021
People who go to the gym several days each week typically dread the start of a new year. The wait times for exercise machines increase dramatically and the locker rooms are suddenly packed with people. Fortunately, for the regular gym-goers, the crowds tend to disappear by late-February. The surge is…...
Switching Industries? 11 Ways To Figure Out The Right Fit
Whether it’s frustration from limitations in their current industry or being shaken by the instability of the job market during Covid-19, many professionals are starting over in their careers, possibly in a new industry entirely. But pivoting to a new industry isn’t as simple as mixing and matching your current…...
How to Be Found by Recruiters on LinkedIn: 6 Important Tips
With all the rage around social media in job searching, LinkedIn stands out as the tool of choice for many recruiters to connect with job seekers (or future job seekers). Knowing how recruiters use the tool may shed some light on how to leverage LinkedIn in your own job search…...
Here are the 5 soft skills employers demand most
A new report confirms what many HR leaders have been saying in recent years: Soft skills are critically important to employers across the workforce. According to the new report, Workplace Basics: The Competencies Employers Want, by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, the most in-demand skills across the labor market are: Communication…...
