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Ruth Winden sur Twitter : "#Career Management Tip 22... UWS Careers & Employability Service. Head of Operations. How to write a CV if you lack qualifications or experience – live chat. Changing Careers. 5 Job Search Tips For Landing A Job Abroad. Are you about to enter the job market from college and nurturing a dream of landing a job abroad?

5 Job Search Tips For Landing A Job Abroad

Your dream may be more attainable than you think. Related: 5 Things To Consider When Working Abroad Thousands of recent college graduates (as well as many working professionals) are finding short and long-term job opportunities abroad. Interview tip: Tell me about yourself? ‘Tell me about yourself‘ is one of the most common questions asked at an interview, but people rarely prepare for it.

Interview tip: Tell me about yourself?

Job seekers plan their strengths, their weaknesses and have an answer for the standard ‘where do you see yourself in 5 years?’ , but few give this question any thought. Before preparing an answer for any question, always ask yourself: Three mistakes to avoid in your career. We’ve all messed up at some stage in our careers – some more than others, and some with far bigger repercussions than others.

Three mistakes to avoid in your career

So most of us know the feeling to varying degrees. But putting these aside for a moment, there are three common mistakes that stand in the way of you getting ahead in the workplace. No plan. Twitter tips: how I used social media to find jobs. A Twitter exchange between social media exec Simon Caine, and Letitia Wolf.

Twitter tips: how I used social media to find jobs

I've been a massive fan of social media since I first joined MySpace in 2003. I love the way it allows you to communicate with your friends for free and learn more about people you may have only met a handful of times. It's this passion for social platforms that led me to design and develop my own social network – a website which allowed Nottingham-based businesses to communicate directly with their customers – while still at university, with the financial help and support from a business enterprise agency called The Hive.

The venture didn't survive past its difficult first year, but it did lead me into working with businesses in Nottingham, helping them develop their online presence on social networks including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Career Geek Life is Tweet: Graduate Jobs at Your Fingertips - Career Geek. Many see Twitter as a place for a bit of casual celebrity stalking, micro-blogging their day-to-day lives and occasionally begging for a retweet from their childhood hero, but many underestimate its potential for networking opportunities.

Career Geek Life is Tweet: Graduate Jobs at Your Fingertips - Career Geek

You may not be a tweetaholic just yet but everyone likes a new follower and it doesn’t take a minute to search for some potential graduate recruiters or companies advertising graduate jobs. Career Advice For My Younger Self: Take That Leap! Cindy Bates | The Daily Muse Growing up, my mother always encouraged me to try new things and pursue new goals, even if it meant pushing outside my comfort zone.

Career Advice For My Younger Self: Take That Leap!

She would tell me that each experience was a chapter in the book of my life, and that no matter what happened, trying new things and putting myself out there would make for a more interesting book. That message gave me a sense of confidence to step outside my comfort zone, and I think to notice opportunity even in seemingly insignificant moments. In college, I was a molecular biology major with plans to attend medical school and become an ER doctor after I graduated.

One night late in my junior year, while working as a volunteer in the University of Michigan hospital emergency room, I witnessed a very traumatic tragedy. My first job out of college was as a consultant to Fortune 100 companies. How You Can Be Happier at Work. Beautiful days seem gray.

How You Can Be Happier at Work

Your six dollar coffee tastes like mud. And the soothing voices on NPR do little to quell the impending twitch in your right eye. You’re panicked, yet resigned, as you take that last sighing breath before opening the door. GoThinkBig. Time to talk about workplace stress. Mental health issues in the workplace cost the UK economy more than £15bn a year in lost revenue – but there is no single solution to improving employees' wellbeing.

Time to talk about workplace stress

Changing careers: a step-by-step guide. Changing jobs is challenging enough, but changing to a whole new career can be overwhelming.

Changing careers: a step-by-step guide

One of the biggest hurdles faced by those interested in a career change is how to make it a smooth and successful transition. To help, we've put together this step-by-step guide to make the transition to your new career an easier one. Longridge-hooley-nicec-journal-oct2012. How to successfully move from the public to the private sector. It's been predicted that up to 500,000 public sector jobs could be cut by the end of 2015.

How to successfully move from the public to the private sector

This has led to an unprecedented number of public sector workers trying to make the difficult move into the private sector. This transition can be extremely challenging due to the different working environments between commercially-driven organisations and public sector institutions. Rekindle the romance with your job. Posted on July 28th, 2012 by david Think back for a moment and remember when you were really excited to get the interview for the job you’re in. Do you remember hoping for and imagining the phone call with the job offer? Do you remember the excited jitters the night before you actually started your first day? At least for a while longer. Although it’s probably hard to conceive of when you’re kinda bored and have mastered it inside out and can now do the tasks with your hands bound and a blindfold on.

Olympics 2012: Get Competitive In Your Career Field. There are few events more inspiring than the Olympics. But it takes more than talent to win a gold medal in front of an audience of millions, according to Vanessa Zainzinger, the digital business editor of Real Business. She tells Huffpost Lifestyle that individuals who want to beat their rivals must be utterly committed to their professional goals. "You don't have to be an Olympic athlete to have an inspirational work ethic," says Zainzinger. "If you want to beat off your competition and come out in front, then you need to have the right attitude. Talent is just the beginning. " Up your game with Zainzinger's career-enhancing techniques. In defence of university careers services. The Guardian work section recently published an article entitled 10 things every graduate should know before they start job hunting. Writer Tanya de Grunwald's advice was practical, sensible and encouraged graduates to take ownership of their job search.

As a university careers adviser, the message had strong resonance and mirrored exactly the approach I – and my colleagues across the sector – would adopt. However the article also suggests that HE careers services are part of the problem, not the solution, for today's graduate jobseekers. "Many say they found their university careers service uninspiring and unhelpful – that's if they made it through the door," writes de Grunwald. The subtext is clear: HE careers advisers are something of an anachronism, unable to keep pace with the labour market realities.

As a profession we have had to meet these challenges head on. We've successfully harnessed the student voice, through our fantastic team of student careers representatives. Domo’s Josh James: We’re Making Every Employee Embrace Social Media, And It’s Paying Off. Back in May, Josh James, the co-founder of analytics company Omniture and now CEO of business intelligence startup Domo, announced an eyebrow-raising idea: He was kicking off an eight-week initiative that would require every one of Domo’s 130 employees to become active on social media.

Now James says the initiative is paying off, and he has numbers and anecdotes to back it up. James admits that he had some worries at first. After all, this isn’t just an optional side project — he says that if people want to keep their jobs, they have to complete 20 different tasks designed to acquaint them with social networks and other consumer Internet products. Those tasks include upgrading their Facebook account to include Timeline, creating three circles in Google+, and creating a playlist on a music service like Pandora or Spotify. Some facts on getting girls into science. There’s a lot I’d like to say about women and science, but most must wait for another day. After the brouhaha today over that terrible Science, it’s a girl thing video I thought it would be useful to do a quick post with some actual research and facts about women and science. The first thing to say is that in most areas of science the problem isn’t really getting girls to study it in the first place, but the a leaky pipe after that.

Social Media for Your Career. Do me a Favor and Spruce up Your LinkedIn Summary and Specialties. Joan Stringer: There are jobs by the thousand awaiting Scots graduates - News. THE thousands of students who will graduate across Scotland this summer would be forgiven for feeling a bit gloomy about their prospects. A raft of recent stories has given the impression that their chances in the jobs market are average at best, slim at worst. But there are headlines and then there is the reality.

It’s true that some of the big graduate schemes may be oversubscribed, but blue-chip companies account for just over a quarter of the jobs pool; there are thousands of ambitious small and medium-sized enterprises across the UK that are desperate to attract the right kind of highly skilled graduates in order to grow. It’s also predicted that the vast majority of new jobs created over the next decade will be in the professional and technical sectors and it is vital that we produce graduates capable of filling those roles.

Recent data actually showed that graduates from Scotland’s universities had the highest starting salaries and the lowest levels of unemployment in the UK. Personality: Don’t Start Your Job Search Without It. Why social networkers are more likely to get ahead at work. Positive attitudes! Positive attitudes! I was fortunate enough to attend the Business in Parliament event at Holyrood last week. It was an incredibly friendly and uplifting experience, well attended by politicians of all hues and many business people, representing their own companies and business organisations. 10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter. No two situations are ever exactly the same, but as a general guide, these are the types of questions that could come up in a typical interview.

Career Networking: Getting Past Social Media Barricades to Success. I participated in #HFChat on Friday where the topic was “networking with purpose” – essentially, how to build relationships that would help our careers. During the discussion, it seemed many of us overcomplicated the issue… in fact, some were wildly over-thinking. Steven Levy, recruiter extraordinaire, perhaps put it best: Tweet your way to the top. If you haven’t heard of social media, where have you been? How Gen Y Scores Jobs With Social Search. Michele Cuthbert is the Principal of Baker Creative, a brand architectural firm that practices a holistic branding approach which encompasses marketing, business, HR, public relations, social media and new media.

Follow her on Twitter @BakerCreative or read the team’s blog. In an era when 50% of recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed, according to government data analyzed by the Associated Press, the U.S. tech industry shines brightly in a dreary hiring climate. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, technology has shown a relatively steady increase in jobs created since June 2009. Prospects at University of the West of Scotland - Careers & Employability Service. 10 things every graduate should know before they start job hunting. Mind Tools - Management Training, Leadership Training and Career Training. Making a Great First Impression - Communication Skills Training from MindTools.