Military life can be a mixture of strenuous activity, rigorous discipline, and a profound sense of duty or accomplishment. Although many people choose to serve for a few years and return to civilian life, others can make a lifelong career out of it. Whatever your choice,…

Is LinkedIn still the best networking platform for senior professionals? Or is it more fine-tuned towards recruitment at a junior to medium level, rather than adding networking value for the highly experienced individual? Vanessa Rogers investigates.

Did you know that it’s really not feasible for us to attempt to relate to, or to nurture, as many as 150 connections? But a recent study of over 2 000 LinkedIn users has shown that most 35- to 44-year-olds have as many as 270 connections;…

Social Media is considered to be one of the most powerful marketing tools because of its usage by the world. According to the HubSpot report, around 2.5 billion users actively use social media daily. These statistics cannot be missed by any marketer and if anyone is missing this tool for the promotion of its business then it is a big mistake. Social media is of great importance which cannot be underestimated as one cannot think to spend a day without scrolling Facebook at least once a day.…

In recent decades, Australian businesses have become increasingly sensitive to instances of workplace discrimination, harassment and bullying. Whereas not so long ago the bulk of workplace issues and conflicts were typically left to be ‘managed’ in-house, nowadays things are considerably different, forcing CEOs and HR departments…

Stackshare is a Open Source Software as a Service (SaaS) and developer tool site. By developers for

developer ranked by developers. Stackshare is a little-known site and few have tried to source in it.

Well to do this without worry you need gono further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an…

Recruiters today perhaps hold one of the most critical and challenging roles in the organization. With thousands of new jobs emerging owing to rapid technological change and consequent scarcity of good technical talent, attracting and hiring quality talent is a…

Offer to assist with the transition

Always offer the employer or manager assistance with transitioning the job duties and responsibilities to another colleague or a new hire. Place this question within the resignation letter's second or third paragraph. And include an offer to help with the transition inside the resignation…

Why do you want to be a Starbucks barista?

Answer: I love coffee. I’ve enjoyed coffee for almost my entire life. And the art of it is something I appreciate. There are subtle differences in the way that coffee can be prepared. And this is what makes every single cup special.

What part of our core values do you resonate…

A CV commonly contains the following information:

• Contact information or resume header
• Education
• Relevant experience
• Research interests
• Publications
• Presentations
• Honors and awards
• References
• Professional…

1. I can be too detail-oriented.

Sample answer: “I can find myself getting too heavily involved in the details of a project. While this is an indicator of my passion for the project, I can spend too much time focusing on the minor details and forget about the holistic needs of the team.”

2. I can care a little too much about our…

Inspirational quotes can be a great way to motivate a colleague, employee, or friend at work. Below are the top 15 inspirational quotes for work taken from the careers website Algrim.co.

Our favorite motivational quote and favorite quote for inspiring great work out of a person or employee.

1.…

Writing a long story

A resume objective should be three to five sentences, equaling a paragraph at most. A long story describing previous life and current life is going to make for a much longer paragraph. This will distract from the other sections on the resume that are vital to the hiring manager.

Balance the resume objective out…

Recruiters need to understand that a high-quality workforce is significant to any company. Confusion and concern arise only when you provide employees that the company is unable to retain and your employee-retention graph starts falling way down expectation. Diversity is really important in case of hiring since it provides certain tangible benefits to the company. For example, once a company starts expanding globally, being able to understand and being able to reach out to a wider…

Access to good education is critical to the overall development of a human being. And that’s true to any person on the planet, across geographies. Besides, access to education decides our earning power, or the ability to earn a livelihood. The future of your next three to four generations depends on what level of education you acquire today. And hence, access to world-class education becomes of paramount importance. But then, the biggest problem with having access to higher education is the…

In the past few years, a plethora of data science job roles have originated, but it’s really difficult to differentiate among them distinctly. Besides, the skill set required is different for different data science job roles. For big data aspirants, fortunately, the job market had kept hot in the past several years, given the unprecedented rise in the generation of digital data. As a matter of fact, 90% of all the world’s data has been produced in the last two years alone. Herein, we will be…

Gone are the days when the recruitment process revolved around referrals and newspaper advertisements. With the growing accessibility of the internet, the recruitment industry witnessed a drastic change. It has become a convoluted and multi-step process to hire a qualified candidate for the right position. Talent acquisition and high volume recruiting…

Death, taxes and staff turnover. Nowadays, whatever your industry, it’s a fact of business life that employees will come and other employees will go. The good news is it’s a situation that can be harnessed by senior managers and HR to inject new energy and ideas, inspiring your team to even greater heights. Yet it also has the potential to be disruptive.…

The pandemic COVID-19 is the biggest challenge of our lifetime, but there is also a positive side to this pandemic. It has accelerated the digital transformation across every industry. Organizations have started investing heavily in remote working and ensuring that employees can work from their home productively.

So, your job advertisement has done its function to bring back qualified candidates. You have also scheduled further interviews for potential employees. Now is the time to reach out, discover, and make a decision on the best fit for the position. It is never a waste to make an effort to craft an effective interview invitation email. A successful interview invitation email helps recruiters to save time and improve the candidate experience.…

For both university staff and prospective students, the future looks daunting. Universities across the UK are still going through a period of transition, adapting to the ‘new normal’ and negotiating the most safe and productive ways to reopen their establishments in the autumn. Recently, many British universities have admitted severe funding concerns, with some being criticised for their…