Interviewing for a job is a scary experience. After all, your interviewer is making an important decision that will affect your future. If you answer a question in the wrong way, you could ruin your chances of working for the company. To help you prepare for your next interview, here are a few good answers to common job interview…

Xing is a professional community/social software platform for enabling a small-world network for professionals. Most of you have heard of Xing but only a few have used it to source. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, called x-raying.…

Even just a few decades ago, when one chose a career path, that was usually their career until retirement. Our grandparents, and even some of our parents, often worked for…

An entry level job candidate may not be as experienced with the interview process as their older comrades in the job market. When judging a candidate’s abilities, you don’t want to pass up an excellent candidate because they are not comfortable with the interview process yet. Here are a few ways interviewers can help the process along when hiring for new…

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – …

The world of contingent, agency recruiting is extremely competitive. The salesperson that visits clients will usually have a nice suit on and promise you the world, but as the saying goes, don’t ask how the sausage is made.

The main thing to understand is that contingent recruiting is a sales game and, as with any sales industry, it is all about earning…

Today, the U.S. Department of Labor takes a major step forward in the march toward full equality by publishing a final rule barring federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating in employment on the bases of sexual orientation and gender identity. A press release announcing the rule is available online at:…

There’s a new website called Cladwell that essentially serves as a personal shopper for men buying clothes. It’s pretty cool.

Cladwell asks you seven questions,…

In a world of CV’s it takes a lot to make yours stand out, to give yours the XFactor. And no, we’re not talking about creating a sob story to get through to the next round of the competition or parading around in a pair of gold hot pants to brighten up Simon Cowell’s day. We are talking about filling your CV to the brim with these brilliant entities…

The first time I ever heard about a ‘personal brand’ was when I got fired for having the wrong one.

It was the mid 1990s. The TV production company I was working for was at the forefront of brand exploitation, licensing, selling and developing their programmes - their intellectual property - all…

One giant light bulb came on over employers’ heads not too long ago, and it represented an idea that changed the way we hire. Employers realized that skill set wasn’t the end-all be-all; in fact, skill set is now playing second fiddle to cultural fit.

While meeting minimum job requirements is non-negotiable, it hasn’t gotten us too far. There has…

United Arab Emirates, which has the world’s seventh largest oil reserves in the world, is the job seeker’s paradise these days. The country which will play host to the Dubai Expo in 2020 at the cost of around $2-3 billion will be inviting employment opportunities in various industries such as construction, hospitality, retail, transport and commercial sector.   However, there is more good news on the employment front for the differently…

I cannot get me enough of good ol' Aunt Chippy. This lady is of her rocker hilarious. Happy Holidays and enjoy the laugh. 

You can check out the last Aunt Chippy video I posted on How To Wrap A Christmas Gift here.…

The Marketing field might be tricky for those who intend to get to a marketing school or college and expect to learn everything they have to learn with their teachers during the formation years.

Sometimes we might get too much distracted with the idea marketing involves meetings, projections, brainstorming and just planning of actions and strategies, but the job…

A business, like any other complex system, runs only as well as its individual parts allow it to operate. That is why the hiring and recruiting aspect of ecommerce is one of the most important tasks a business owner or entrepreneur must learn to navigate and streamline. It’s well known that low-performing employees can drag down a business, but there are several strategies that can help mitigate the risk of hiring candidates not suited…

The HBO show Silicon Valley epitomizes the stereotypical millennial. Credit HBO

We’ve all heard it before.

They only wear skinny jeans and chubbies. They can’t go five minutes without …

Even in periods of high unemployment, there are open jobs. Jobs that companies simply can’t fill. It’s not that candidates are unqualified for the positions necessarily, there are just too many of them for each opening. Recruiters and hiring managers are busy trying to fill these positions with candidates that not only have the necessary skills, but also the personalities to…