Writing Your Resignation Letter

Is a letter of resignation necessary? It depends. Many jobseekers simply tell their boss verbally that they are leaving — but there are several advantages to actually writing a resignation letter.

• It can help start the conversation about you leaving the company. You can simply give it to your…

Your application letter matters a lot in your job application. You need to write an attention-grabbing application to get a job. This comes with using the right format for an application letter for a Job. This article – How to Write an Application Letter for a Job in 2021, highlights the recommended steps to take to write a professional…

Email Accepting Job Offer

Maintaining consistent performance throughout the entire employment span is impossible for anyone. There are various ups and downs in the productivity and show of every working professional. What is not acceptable is to constantly keep the workforce under scrutiny for the dissatisfactory reports and completely ignore the organization’s shortcomings. It is always easy to blame an employee for the degrading performance or lowering…

There comes a time in your business when things are not really in good shape. Either the working conditions are getting worse, the organizational policies and processes have become stale or the growth is stagnant and you are way past your best! But, have you wondered what your workforce could be substantially responsible for this slow downfall? Yes! Sometimes employees can also be a huge reason behind your business facing such hardships and the numbers going down. Thus, it is extremely…

When applying for a job, you might only focus on editing your CV. However, your covering letter could be the deciding factor for a hiring manager.  

Indeed, some hiring managers may not even…

Landing a good oil and gas job requires standing out from the competition of oil and gas industry professionals. The primary aspects that help you win a new role are your CV, a good cover letter, and then your interview skills. A cover letter can…

 3 Tips & Tricks for a Great Cover Letter That Will Land You the Job

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With the clear-cut purpose of introducing you, your skills,…

A cover letter can be your foot in the door to a new job. It is the first impression that a would-be employer gets to see, and is often the reason why a CV doesn't even get opened. This article should boil down the tactic of how long a cover letter should be, in order to give it the maximum chance of improving your prospects for a new role.

Why…

The dreaded decline of the offer usually comes before accepting the offer, oh no, not on this one. Relocation assistance approved and sign on bonus all in place, even 3 weeks paid in a hotel to help transition.  As a recruiter you have already visualized the check coming in the mail and your off on to your next biggest and most important search.  

Although, instead of being happy and feeling good about all the hard work you did that goes into recruiting the hard-to-fill unicorn all…

Doesn’t it seem like everyone is either looking for a job or wishing they had a better one? With so many people looking for a new occupation, it may seem like you will never stand out amongst the seemingly innumerable job seekers.

This is completely false. No one has had the exact same experiences you have had. With perseverance and these tips, you can…

5 Steps to a Collection Letter

I must get 10 calls a month from prospective clients who ask me for collection help on a past due account, and when I ask if they have sent a final demand letter, 75 percent of them will tell me they have not. Now, I do appreciate that everyone thinks of me when they have a collection problem, and I do not like…

A cover letter is another “pleasant thing” that online resume services can provide to their clients. Yet only a handful of job-hunters avail of this benefit whenever they seek the help of these entities as they walk through the job search trail. Cover letters provide the potential and future employers a glimpse of what a job seeker can do to their company. It gives highlight on the passion and interest of…

A cover letter is often the first impression a potential employee gets of a job candidate. This single sheet of paper or document on a screen can open the door to an interview or promptly close it, causing the job seeker to lose all hope of getting the position.

It's recommended that a cover letter accompany every resume sent. If the job seeker is applying for positions in different fields, he or…

Let’s face it, when you’re looking for a job, you want it as fast and as easy as you can get it. It can be overwhelming and time-consuming searching for a job. It’s true that you likely won’t land an interview, or job for that matter, without actually applying for job openings (unless they come through Networking and weren’t advertised). However, when it comes to applying to…

I recently “googled” my name and found an assortment of results come up that I didn’t even realize were out there and visible to the public. Social media sites, registries I created, and websites that I’ve registered on and long forgotten about. When it comes to job searching, employers are now able to see more about our personal lives than ever before through the internet.…

Job searching can be overwhelming, long and tiresome. In order to use your time productively and get the best results, you should organize your activities and set short-term goals.  Organizing your time will help you to stay focused, avoid burning out and help you to achieve maximum results.

Below are some tips for activities you can focus on to organize your time,…

I can receive up to several (dozen) applications in a week for a wide variety of roles, however I often reject CV’s based on the way I receive a CV or its content. Here are my Top Ten  most common mistakes people make when applying for a job.

1.  If you don’t have a work permit or right of abode for the UK you will be sent a no letter.

I am seeing increasing numbers of people from outside the EU who may have studied in the UK thinking they can apply for jobs…

What’s more important – having a good CV or a good cover letter…? The answer? Both! Cover letters are just as important as CVs because a good cover letter gets your CV through the door and a good CV then goes on to qualify you for an interview!

If you know anything about my background, you’ll know I fell into CV writing, cover letters and so on by accident while working in the media as the assistant editor of a magazine. Back then I had to recruit people (as well as everything else)…