How A Personal Website Can Improve Your Job Search:
By Cham Posted Date: August 29, 2017
A personal website is something that can improve your online presence as well as enhance your profile when you hunt for new job opportunities. Regardless of what industry or field you are in, a personal website can have a good impact on your application. Employers today almost always look up your name online, this includes looking at your professional networks such as LinkedIn as well as your social media profiles in order to better understand who you are. So whether you are an artist, engineer, teacher, in corporate finance or a tech guy – creating a personal website will allow you to give your employers a better understanding of who you are, what your accomplishments or achievements are and why you would be the ideal candidate to join their team.
Discussed below are some of the reasons why you should consider creating an online presence for yourself via a personal website...
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How long to wait before following up a job interview?
By Cham Posted Date: August 22, 2017
As a job seeker the interview stage can be deemed as the most crucial part of any job application or hiring process. You may have planned your interview out to the smallest detail – from the outfit you wore, to the way you carried yourself and the energy you portrayed. You may have aced all the questions and feel that the interview went perfect – this is great. So now that the interview was a success, how long should you wait before following up with the hiring manager you met?
As a job seeker soon after a good interview, you’d be constantly refreshing your email inbox and checking your voicemails, eager to hear back. This is especially true if you are super excited about a job and were looking forward to a positive response, but the fact is the hiring manager is not on the same timeline, and they are probably meeting with other stakeholders, checking budgets and definitely meeting other potential candidates.
The tips below will help you figure out when to follow up with the hiring manager or HR representative after the interview...
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How you can motivate your employees:
By Cham Posted Date: August 15, 2017
Regardless of whether you are a business owner, project manager or just overseeing a department or team within an organization, your goal should always be growth. Growth in all its forms requires you to be prepared both mentally and physically. It’s important to have the right tools to help you with the grander scheme and achieving your goals as a leader.
Within a business the employees are your team and they are the most important (and deciding) factor towards your business growth. The performance of your employees will correlate to the performance of your business in the long run.
It is very important as a leader within your business to know exactly what needs to be done to keep your employees focused on achieving the common goal of creating value and ultimately business growth. The secret to keeping your employees motivated is knowing about them individually and motivate them according to what they respond to best as individuals.
It is vital to spend time on building an ecosystem that employees find engaging as well as improving their overall work experience and culture as this translates to their performance and satisfaction.
Discussed below are some tips on how you can motivate your employees...
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Is it worth paying for LinkedIn as a job seeker?
By Cham Posted Date: August 08, 2017
If you’re a recruiter or a sales person then you may be used to paying for LinkedIn just to get the additional information and features, however job seekers are probably not. LinkedIn offers premium accounts for all users with a heap of additional features now, so as a job seeker you might be asking yourself the question, Is it worth paying for LinkedIn?
Although it can be very tempting to upgrade (especially with the way LinkedIn is marketing their paid services) – a standard LinkedIn account isn’t necessarily bad. The free accounts are actually good enough and LinkedIn have made sure that these accounts aren’t very limited in features in order to maintain and improve their user base. Similar paid providers haven’t increased their user base as much because they charge for even the basic features, unlike LinkedIn.
Listed below are some of the things you can do with a free LinkedIn account...
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Ways you can improve your job advertisements:
By Cham Posted Date: July 25, 2017
Finding a new candidate for that role can sometimes be a difficult task, you don’t always get the ideal person and in some cases you run ads for several weeks with little to no effect. Discussed below are some useful tips for recruiters on crafting a good job ad that will attract the right candidates and capture their attention:
- Make sure the job title (position) makes sense: When a candidate looks at a job they see the job title to determine whether it is something suited to their specific skillset. If the job title doesn’t make sense then the job seeker would skip past it and move to one that they feel is more suited. Hence its vital that the job title displayed is something that is commonly used for that position and makes sense to the reader. You can use fancy titles that sound cool, but if they have no meaning as to what the role entails then results of that job ad may not be the best...
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