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Tips for Finding Work Online and Avoiding Scams
If you have been trying to find work at home jobs via the Internet, you’ve probably already determined that many of the job opportunities out there are scams. Many of the scams involve you paying for something or doing a lot of work for peanuts. These types of opportunities should never be considered potential employers because you will seldom feel any substantial amount of money going into your pocket. The good news is there are legitimate online employers. However, finding them will involve a little skill on your part.
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Finding a Job Through Temp Agencies
If you are in the market for a job, don’t count out temp agencies. These job placement agencies have positions available in almost every location and career field. Believe it or not, many people work as temps full time - and applying for work at most agencies can easily be done online.
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Five Job Interview Tips That Will Get You Hired
Whether the economy is on an upswing or a downward spiral, it can be hard to land a job. Being hired for the position of your dreams isn’t always easy. However, with a few interview tips you can increase your odds of landing that job! Here are the top five recommendations made by career counsellors when coaching applicants before their interviews.
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From Job Seeker to Hired: Get Creative and Get a Job
Desperate times call for desperate measures and in our current economy, job seekers are getting pretty desperate. According to economists, it’s estimated that the unemployment rate will continue to climb and that at some point at least a third, if not more of the US population will be out of work at some point. Those are startling statistics for the United States but the scary fact is that unemployment isn’t something that other countries are immune to. The unemployment vice is bearing down on everyone. If you’re looking for a job, you’re going to need more than a résumé or CV to get companies to stand up and notice you. You’ll need to be creative, aggressive and even a little brave.
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Making Good Manners Pay Off in Your Job Search
No matter where you go or what you do, good manners are important. As you were growing up, your Mum likely instilled in you a set of manners and rules for proper behaviour. In learning etiquette, you developed a way to act and behave in the public eye. The manners she taught you aren’t just for social situations and niceties when encountering someone new; the manners Mum taught you may just help you land the job you’ve been searching for.
Latest Work & Careers Discussions
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Frustrated with co-worker HR? Am I crazy?
I posted this on the intro page but also thought here would help.
Hi all,
Sorry to come on here and immediatley drop my problems before helping but I just need to get this off my chest and see if I am being crazy.
I am a group lead in a regional sales group. A recent new hire (we will call her Steph)is a lead in a different region. We are seperate but equal (supposedly)
The issue I have is with how Steph dresses. The accepted attire is office casual, and she… -
Fitting in at work
When starting a new job or even a new college course i think it’s normal and natural to feel a little nervous, thoughts come into mind like am I going to make a good impression and will my work be good enough and worries about fitting in can be daunting.
I cant say I have ever had a job before that has sounded as exciting as the one I’m about to start next week; i had always worked retail, cleaning and data entry roles, but despite that the one that really stood out as a job I enjoyed…
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not sure were i stand with job offer
After attending an interview nearly 2 weeks ago now I was offered the job and promised I would be notified in the next few days via the agency about start dates; they then told they had a few internal matters to get sorted before I could start which was not a problem.
This job was arranged thru an agency and i contacted them late last week to find out whats going on, I was informed by the agency that I was not to worry the job was 110% mine and i had received excellent feedback which put my…
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IF you could go back to your teens/20s, what would you do differently?
I didnt know where to put this really. it could have gone in the lifestyle/hobbies section. but if you could go back and do things with your life differently durring your early 20s, what would those things be?
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Transferable skills
I often read about transferable skills and making the most of them on my CV and today in an interview I was put in a position were I had to think fast what i can bring to a technical job from a non technical education background.
I also think this is a good point even if you haven’t worked for a time especially for mums returning to work like skills in time management and even conflict resolution think 2 two years olds in an argument; then there is volunteering which is not to be underestimated eithr.
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