Career Planning is an activity that should not stop once you are done with your high school or college. In fact, it should be a constant process in your life
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You go to a family gathering or a friends’ reunion and you get asked, “What are your plans for higher education?” or “What have you thought about your career?” Such
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Finding the career of your choice can be quite a challenge. There are so many options and so many opinions influencing your decision that it is almost impossible to be
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We have already discussed how you can identify your personal strengths, weaknesses and opportunities in other blog posts (links to respective blog posts). In this blog, we will try to
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You are sitting on your workstation, wondering if your skills are getting dated. You try to update your resume and are hit by the hard truth: “You haven’t learnt anything
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We have already discussed how you can identify your personal strengths in this other blog (link to Identifying Your Personal Strengths blog post). However, it is equally important to be
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You are at an interview at the place that you really like. The interview is going great, but then the interviewer asks you this question: “List down your greatest personal
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This is the second blog on the basics of job-hunting. The first blog took you through how to look for a new job and possibly a career shift. All of
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It is that time of the year when a lot of us will be going through annual evaluations at our workplaces. There will possibly be some increments and some disappointments.
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The Coronavirus pandemic is bigger than anybody expected. Although the UK has quite a small number of cases, the rest of Europe is struggling to cope and shutting its borders
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How To Create a ‘Machine-Readable’ Resume in 12 Steps – and Why You Should Do This
Posted in: All Featured Articles, Best Of, Freelancer, Graduate, Professional Tags: effective resume, resumeResumes aren’t initially read by people – they’re read, or rather ‘parsed’, by machines. Here’s how to ensure your résumé is machine readable
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Great Resumes Arrive With Even Greater Cover Letters
Posted in: Professional Tags: best resume, cover letter, effective resumeYou’ve written a great resume. But what about the cover letter? In my post 9 Highly Effective Habits of Great Technical Resume Writers I shared the approach of the best
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Do ‘Resume Builders’ Work for Technical People?
Posted in: Professional Tags: cv builder, effective CV, effective resume, resume builder, technical CV, technical resumeWriting a great resume is a real challenge for most of us, and to get it near perfect we have to learn from the best. In my article ‘ 9
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9 Highly Effective Habits of Great Technical Resume Writers
Posted in: Graduate, Professional Tags: best CV, best resume, effective CV, effective resume, personal resume, technical CV, technical resumeWhat makes a great resume – one which you can’t put down? A great resume writer, that’s what. Through my years of IT management and recruiting IT professionals, I’ve seen
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10 Tips to Make Your Resume Pop
Posted in: All Featured Articles, Best Of, Graduate, Professional Tags: cv, job hunting, jobseeking, resumeRecruiters, managers and HR professionals receive a lot of resumes each day. Very little time is spent reviewing each resume so you need something which will make you stand out
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7 Keys To Describe Your Achievements – Pro Style
Posted in: All Featured Articles, Best Of, Graduate, Leader, Professional Tags: achievement, articulate achievements, describe achievements, effective CV, objectives, resumeSeven factors of articulating success. Many people don’t know them. Discover them here to gain a distinct advantage
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How I Increased My LinkedIn Profile Views by 575%
Posted in: Other Stuff Tags: linkedinI’ve increased my LinkedIn profile views by 575% – want to know how?
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How to create your dream ‘no experience yet’ resume
Posted in: All Featured Articles, Best Of, Graduate Tags: cv, resumeApplying for that dream job? But you think you have no experience to talk about, and don’t know what to do about it…
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What is Your Greatest Personal Achievement at Work?
Posted in: All Featured Articles, Best Of, Freelancer, Leader, Professional Tags: achievement, articulate achievements, personal resume, successThis isn’t always the most obvious, and it isn’t necessarily the achievement we put on our résumé.
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Use LinkedIn to Create Your Resume
Posted in: Freelancer, Graduate, Professional Tags: cv, linkedin, resumeIt’s your online resume – anyone can find it, read and gain confidence in your abilities. So why not use LinkedIn to help create your offline resume?
This post is part 10 of 15 in the series Building a Powerful Resume

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