Career Coaching & Guidance
Customise job applications
When applying for jobs, it is the quality – not the quantity – of applications that counts. To get noticed, …
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Career Coaching & Guidance
Build your own brand
Self-help and makeover television programmes are ubiquitous now and everybody seems to be talking about defining …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Networking pays dividends
Wherever you are in your career, it pays to consider two revealing statistics. One is that roughly 35 per cent of job-seekers find a position thanks mainly to …
Career Coaching & Guidance
First impressions count
People often forget they should treat the first day in a new job as if it were still part of the interview …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Everything is negotiable
When discussing contract terms and conditions, it is important to remember that everything is …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Be ready when doors open
Career transition can happen in many different ways. It may be something you plan carefully for months, researching …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Preparing for the transition from classroom to workplace
When the new term begins, most final-year university students have to turn their thoughts to job hunting …
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Skills needed for a charitable profession
Answering donation-related inquiries, such as how a charity plans to use contributions and explaining to a caller the ways to participate …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Work-life balance is the secret to success
An innovative series of “Career Building” seminars, organised by Classified Post, will …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Gatekeepers who reduce risk
When people think about investment banking, they picture bankers shouting into their phones buying and selling all sorts of exotic …
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Playing a supporting role
The popular image of a personal assistant – as portrayed by Hollywood – is of a poorly-paid, badly-treated employee routinely berated by …
Career Coaching & Guidance
Handling multiple tasks
For event managers who plan and execute the wide array of concerts, conferences and parties that take place every day, no event is too …