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How To Turn Your Internship Into A Full-Time Job
Career Path Planning

How To Turn Your Internship Into A Full-Time Job

Internships may very well be the secret to finding a full time job. Not only does an internship help get your foot in the door of a company, the hands-on experience and networking opportunities are priceless on a student’s resume. And these two factors just might be the push someone needs to extend a full time job offer when your internship comes to an end. By the same token, the inexperience of a young university student could highlight all the inadequacies and lack of professionalism of those fumbling to find their grounding in a new career.

How to leave your job like a professional
Career Coaching & Guidance

How to leave your job like a professional

Whether you are terminated, downsized or leave on your own accord, there are many ways to ensure a graceful exit and to employ proper protocol when leaving. The measures below will keep your reputation intact and help you chart a polished and professional exit strategy. Be honest about why you are leaving. If you need a change, a more positive work environment, an increase in salary or you simply need a new career challenge, be honest about it. You can also offer feedback on ways to enhance working conditions at an exit interview.

Congratulations On Your Humanities Degree. Now What?
Career Path Planning

Congratulations On Your Humanities Degree. Now What?

Well, you’ve worked hard for the last several years and you made it through university. Those years of getting yourself out of bed and into class, completing assignments, participating in class discussions, studying for hours on end, and pulling at least a few all-nighters have finally awarded you with a degree. In humanities. Now it’s time to work even harder to find a job. Some graduates may leave campus with lucrative job offers in hand, but unfortunately, many who leave with a humanities degree do not.

5 Ways For University Students To Build Their Resumes
Career Path Planning

5 Ways For University Students To Build Their Resumes

As university students accelerate towards graduation day, the mood can be a jumble of mixed emotions. Certainly there is excitement and nervous anticipation hanging in the air as one chapter in life comes to a close and another slowly begins to materialise on the horizon. Unfortunately, as university ends, it is also this new beginning that can fill soon-to-graduate university students with fear, dread, and anxiety. Graduating from university means entering the competitive “real” world where finding a good job is key to success in life.

Career Coaching & Guidance

How to sell temp roles on your CV

Most jobseekers are aware that staying in jobs for less than two years can be harmful to your career in the long term…

A Step-By-Step guide to getting hired
Job Search in Hong Kong

A Step-By-Step guide to getting hired

Finding employment has been especially tough for a handful of years now. Already a nerve-wracking situation, the job search has become a paralysing experience for many and can even leave you feeling dejected and without hope. Never fear, this step-by-step guide to getting hired will ease your worries and set you in a solid direction for success.  Step 1

8 Tips to Get the Company Bonus You Deserved
How to Get Promoted

8 Tips to Get the Company Bonus You Deserved

Every good employee reaches a point where they need to ask their manager for a well-deserved year-end bonus. Whether it’s annually, or every few years, asking for a bonus can be a dreaded occasion. Employers will not always freely give out bonuses for a variety of reasons. An employee who knows their worth and knows they are due for a bonus needs to muster up the courage to speak to their boss and make a strong case for why they deserve to receive a bonus. There are tips that will help the process go smoothly and have you smiling all the way to the bank.

7 Reasons you need a career change
Job Search in Hong Kong

7 Reasons you need a career change

Most people don’t like change and switching jobs ranks as one of the most stressful experiences we can have. We often avoid making job or career changes until it becomes painfully clear…

7 Signs Your Boss Is Pushing You Out
Job Search in Hong Kong

7 Signs Your Boss Is Pushing You Out

We all wish for the perfect job, the perfect paycheck, the perfect employer. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world. While we strive for happiness in all three categories…