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Turning Job Hunting on its Head

Everyone has those memories of aimlessly trawling through job sites and careers pages hoping for something to jump out at them and literally say, “Hey! This is the perfect job for you!” And on the rare occasions when that does happen, we then have the trauma of putting together a flawless application that will guarantee us an invite to meet someone that might like us and decide to offer us the job. Job hunting is no walk in the park, and it feels like a full-time job on its own by the time you rack up the hours on the following process:          Searching          Researching         Writing         Editing          Sending         Praying. Usually it comes in that order. When you do reach the moment of hitting submit, confident you have crafted an excellent application, you then have the waiting game of finding o...

How Can I Be More Successful In My Career? Part 3 of 4

You can probably remember a time when an opportunity presented itself to you and you ran with it; maybe a new job, a promotion, a new hobby or some sort of adventure.  We are often on the ‘lookout’ for something to come our way and a chance for us to seize the moment. Carpe Diem and all. But why do we often wait for these things to crop up?  Part 3 of 4:  Create Your Own Opportunities Everything moves so fast and before we know it someone else might have seized that moment before us and we’re back to playing the waiting game for the next opportunity to arise. It’s time we created opportunities ourselves and made progress happen, rather than wait for it to potentially pop up in front of our faces. Continuing with the series of top tips to bring more success to your career, creating your own opportunities is key to making the progress you want. Here are some ideas that might bring about new opportunities with you in the driving seat:   ...