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14 Day-To-Day Hacks That Will Vastly Improve Your Productivity. Jobs.theguardian. What are good ways to choose a professional/proper email name/address? Getting into the mindset of your interviewer. 5 things jobseekers should never tweet about. According to Jobvite, Twitter is the preferred network for 40 per cent of social jobseekers.

5 things jobseekers should never tweet about

It’s also a common sourcing location for recruiters and hiring managers looking outside of the LinkedIn-shaped social search box. Twitter can boost your chances of securing a new role but if you tweet about the wrong things you could scare potential employers away. Politics or religion. 7 terrible secrets revealed by your email address (and how to fix them) When it comes to your personal and business brand, your professional email address may be undoing all your hard work.

7 terrible secrets revealed by your email address (and how to fix them)

Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of email addresses – and I’ve had a chance to make observations through the eyes of hiring manager, consultant, client, volunteer and colleague. Setup Your Email to Look Professional. At the cost of repeating earlier responses; This is a well thought out post and includes some very valid and important tips.

Setup Your Email to Look Professional

Many folks think it unnecessary, but my emails have become known for the way it is laid out / formatted 1. firstname.lastname shows in the ‘sender’ to the receiver 2. Subject: [Matter or reference]: Specific description of content of the email. Eg: If I am writing an email to an autorepair shop regarding my car the subject would show: [Nissan Maxima GLE, 2003]: Appointment for 60,000mile service 3. 4. 5. How to Get the Gmail Address You Want. So you want to sign up for Gmail (or change your username), but the Holy Grail of email addresses — Firstname.Lastname@gmail.com — is taken.

How to Get the Gmail Address You Want

With more than 350 million users, it's hard to grab a unique username on Gmail these days — especially one you can use for the long run. (Sorry XxXButt3rflyCuTee@gmail.com, it's just not going to work out.) That’s men: Know what you don’t want to discover what you really, really want. ‘When I come back,” Malcolm would announce before leaving for lunch, “I don’t want that rack of coats there and I don’t want those dresses here and I don’t want to see those boxes in that yard.”

That’s men: Know what you don’t want to discover what you really, really want

Malcolm was the manager of a small clothing warehouse in London where I worked for a brief period a long time ago. He taught me the value of negative motivation. He navigated his way through his day according to what he didn’t want rather than what he wanted. But of course he ended up getting what he wanted: the coats and dresses on to the van and the newly arrived boxes of garments in their proper places in the warehouse. Decades later, when I studied counselling, I could have done with Malcolm.

What job interview questions really mean and how to answer them. Can the path of your entire life come down to what you do in just one or two decisive moments?

What job interview questions really mean and how to answer them

I think so – and it is likely that one of these moments of life-changing destiny will present itself in the form of a job interview. Being great at interviews is an invaluable skill but you can’t prepare an answer for every interview question. So, of the thousands of questions interviewers might ask, which ones will they? As the chairman of Reed I have access to thousands of organisations that recruit through Reed Specialist Recruitment and reed.co.uk, so I asked them what questions they most commonly ask during interviews. In the thousands that came back I noticed patterns, and narrowed them down to a list of 101 questions that kept cropping up.

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Postgraduate study: Get a job and earn more. Young people throughout the EU are the biggest cohort of victims of the current economic crisis.

Postgraduate study: Get a job and earn more

Their rate of unemployment ranges from mid-20 per cent to up to 50 per cent in many southern European economies. Within this, the levels of unemployment decrease at every stage of educational attainment and salaries increase. Seven ways to succeed in a video or phone interview. 1.

Seven ways to succeed in a video or phone interview

Dress and act how you would in a face-to-face interview A common mistake for phone and video interviews is to approach the situation more casually because it’s not in person, says Katherine Burik, founder of The Interview Doctor. In fact “you need to be your professional best in every way”, says Victoria McLean, CV writer and interview coach. To do this, dress in business attire and speak clearly, she adds: “Ensure your body language and delivery are professional.” Likewise, do not skimp on preparation, says Burik. 2. There are a variety of sounds that can disrupt a phone or Skype interview, such as background noise, TV, children or a poor signal.

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Jobs.theguardian. Applying for jobs is often a difficult and demoralising process, but it's important to stay positive and learn from your mistakes.

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