Posts under ‘For Job Seekers’

In any career there are ups and downs – but there often comes a time where you stop “working for the man” and start “working for yourself”. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to become your own boss – but it does mean finding a job that you love.
But what does it take to [...]

The idea of working on creating console and online games is the pinnacle of professional (and personal) achievement for many gamers. Not only do you get a great job – you get to pour your passion into your work. But for every job opening, there are thousands of applications. How do you get YOUR resume [...]

I have written previously about how you can effectively use LinkedIn to find a job. In fact, I went so far as to integrate a LinkedIn widget into the Social Media Jobs job board so that when you are looking at a particular role, you can see immediately who you know who works there.
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I first started working right at the end of an era. Those who preceded me still believed in, and possibly had, jobs for life. But I had the fortune to hit the workforce in the middle of a recession – and found it quite a challenge to find work.
Eventually I landed a job but soon [...]

This video has been through a number of iterations, but it reinforces the point that we are currently living through the type of seismic cultural and economic shifts that have been rarely seen in human history.
Spend a few minutes taking in the statistics, revelations and predictions that have seen this video receive over 6 [...]

If you are involved in social media (or if you want to be), then no doubt you have started to run into the situation where your PERSONAL and PROFESSIONAL lives overlap. You might have a personal blog but a LinkedIn profile. You may have a Flickr account and an OpenID. And, of course, you will [...]

Years ago I ran an online learning group at IBM. It was called the Knowledge Factory and it was a great place to learn about how to get your message across to others using “multimedia” (as we called it back then). And while the technology was interesting, the more important aspect was the use of [...]

Some time ago I wrote that Blogs are the New CVs … but in true social media form, new and innovative approaches have, perhaps, rendered this a little simplistic. After all, the same ideas can be applied to Facebook Fan Pages, YouTube channels and so on.
But what are the best examples?
Marek Wolski, a young marketer [...]

Years ago I was told that a large percentage of jobs go unadvertised – recommendations are passed on through word of mouth – and before you know it, the vacancy is filled. Whenever I have been in charge of teams, I have certainly followed this approach – after all, I already trust and respect the [...]

There is one important thing to remember about CVs – it won’t get you a job – it just opens doors.
Many people spend a vast amount of time writing up their CVs. They fill out each section with detail after detail – from their first job through to their last. But, in my view, a [...]