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Writing an Effective Civilian Jobs CV
When You Leave the Armed Forces
Searching for civilian jobs after you complete your Armed Forces service, requires a different approach when you prepare your civilian jobs CV. Civilian careers, although having many similarities to some military careers, demand a new way of thinking and a new way of presenting your skills and experience. The key issue is that it is important to draw parallels between your services roles and civilian roles so that the eventual reader can understand the similarities.
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Being Organized Makes For More Job Hunting Success
Job hunting or job seeking is what people do when they are looking for employment. It doesn't matter if it is due to unemployment or dissatisfaction with a current position, the principles are the same.
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Facts About Working For the Big 4 Accountancy Firms
The Big 4 are the four largest international accountancy and professional services firms, which handle the vast majority of audits for publicly traded companies as well as many private companies, creating an oligopoly over the auditing industry. The Big Four firms are shown below, with their latest publicly available data of revenues and number of employees for fiscal year 2008
Facts About Working For the Big 4 Accountancy Firms
What Smoking Does to You - Good Reasons to Quit Today
Due to the fact that cigarettes are a cocktail of chemicals, they are the most health-damaging of all nicotine and tobacco products because of the way the smoke (with over 3,000 different chemicals) delivers toxins into the body.
Smoking not only causes cancers of the respiratory system, it also multiplies the risk of cervical cancer by 4 times, doubles the risk of breast and stomach cancers and is considered to be responsible for 40% of bladder and kidney cancers.
What-Smoking-Does-to-You---Good-Reasons-to-Quit-Today
The obvious goal of job seeking is to obtain a job interview with a potential employer which will eventually lead to the job hunter being hired for a job.
Tell Me About Yourself
"Tell Me About Yourself" is the most popular way for hiring managers to start most one-on-one interviews; get this right and the rest of the interview will fall into place. Yet so many people just don't get it right and perhaps lose out because of that.
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Negotiation Strategies
Use our negotiation strategies to get yourself a better job offer once you have completed the round of interviews. If you already have a job offer which you think the offer could be better, read on to find out about our proven top 10 negotiation tactics that will help you to get yourself a better salary and benefits package.
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Getting Fired Or Laid Off
Getting fired is not something that many people have much choice over today with the state of economic affairs as they are but it can happen to the best of us so don't dwell on it too much. Instead, focus on what you are going to do next and how you are going to find another job. Bear in mind though, that the difficulty of explaining why you were fired has just been added to your job search. These articles explain.
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Top Skills Employers Want
In today's competitive job market, made more difficult, employers are only interested finding new people who can not only contribute rapidly to the growth of the company, but also help to boost its efficiency and productivity.
So if you are one of those people who wish to make it to the job that you have been dreaming of, it is important for you to know the top skills that employers want.
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How To Change Jobs And Get A New Job
The essence of how to change jobs and get a new job involves just one thing: making your own mind up to change jobs. It is your decision, so if you want a new job, decide to take whatever action is needed, then ACT!
How To Change Jobs
I Is Very Boring In Cover Letters
Overuse of 'I' is very boring in cover letters and job applications. When you start every sentence with I... it gets very boring for the reader who will soon lose interest in your cover letter or job application.
Boring Cover Letters
Win The Job - Change Your Mind
When you’re looking for the new job or that career move it’s easy to think that ‘they’ hold all the cards. But I want you to try and change the way you think about it - change your mind. This one simple statement is the job search secret that will empower you to truly deserved success.
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Self-Introduction Is Your Key To Interview Success
Once you have been invited to an interview you must get ready to create the image of someone they will surely want to hire above all other job applicants. Everybody has an opinion as to how you do that, but what do you actually do and what do you say? Self-introduction is your key to interview success because you are starting from a baseline position where they have no experience of who you are or what you are like.
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Top Interview Answers to Tricky Interview Questions
Confidently sitting through your interview and being absolutely sure that you can answer any question the interviewer might throw at you. No nerves, no butterflies and no worry about unforeseen questions coming up; you know the top interview answers to tricky interview questions.
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Analysing Adverts For A Creative Job Application
Analyzing adverts means looking very carefully at each advert that is of interest and reading it several times until you get the feel of what’s being said.
When you have that feel, try to read between the lines to deduce if there is one ‘crucial’ need if there is anything else you could infer from their words. These articles explain.
Read how to analyse adverts
Change Your Job in 24 Hours
Can you really change your job in 24 hours? Seems unlikely when you consider all the things you have to do to change your job. For instance you need to identify a new job, write your Resume and covering letters, then attend an interview and so forth.
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Unexpected Career as Webmaster!
When I had decided that the only way to bring all of my career change experience and material to you was on the internet, I started to research how I could do that...
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Redundancy or Downsized?
If you are handling a Redundancy, Downsizing operation or just "having to let people go" you know how difficult and stressful it can be. Everyone is affected in some way whether they are being made redundant, downsized or let go; or even whether they are being kept on (the survivor-guilt syndrome).
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Active Retirement May Be Your Answer
Don't let retirement be forced on you or think you have to continue in a job you dislike because the Pensions Industry has messed up. Active retirement might be the answer when all you actually want to do is stop what you’ve been doing but not "hang up your boots" altogether.
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Choosing Your Options With Care
Want to be an astronaut or a baker or a carpenter? Perhaps you'd prefer to be a chef or a pilot or a successful entrepreneur? Choosing your options is never going to be that easy; what you need is to collate the things you are good at with the things you enjoy doing and then see where that leads you.
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CV Secrets You Need to Know
Spending so much time reviewing CVs from people who are clearly in need of guidance is very frustrating. Why isn't it obvious to them that their CV won't work? Can't they see it's too long winded and boring?
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Drive Your Career Change
This direct approach is no more and no less than a ‘marketing’ exercise to a specifically qualified target audience. It is NOT a mail-shot and certainly NOT ‘speculative’ letters that some people would have you waste your time writing. Compared to a direct approach letter, the speculative letter or mail-shot is a complete waste of time, effort and possible opportunity. So don’t do it!
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7 Steps to Your Career Success
Don't know where to start when you need to change jobs or even your career? It's just a matter of following these 7 steps that will mean you know what to do and when.
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Salary Negotiation is a Sticky Subject
When you have received the job offer and you think the package needs improving before you accept the position, what can you do?
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Interview Perspectives 1 & 2
Every successful interview depends on actually taking part in the interview of course and if the interviewer – through incompetence or other reason – doesn’t allow that, what can you do?
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Overcome Interview Nerves
Sooner or later, the interview invitation is going to say you are required to give a presentation as part of the selection process. And like most people you may dread having to do it. Here's how you can overcome those interview presentation nerves.
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Discover What You Really Want To Do
Working out exactly you want to do can be quite a challenge.
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Telephone Phobia: Make the Phone Your Job Search Friend
You’re pretty comfortable using the phone. It’s something you do every day in your working routine; so why is it that as soon as you need to use it for career change or job-search it becomes too difficult?
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Career Change Success Is Yours If you Follow The Formula
Simply stated there are only two things stopping you from making the successful career change you dream of - belief and action. Or in my terms: PMA + SMA = Career Change Success.
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The Life-Long Student
You may not miss eating Ramen noodles everyday, but you are doing yourself a huge disservice if you have completely forgotten every aspect of the student lifestyle. Students learned and studied everyday - something that is essential for you to do if you want to be on top of your industry.
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Retirement: Is It A Career Change Option?
Retirement might be the answer when you ask yourself "why do I want to make a career change" and you decide that what you actually want is not so much a career change as to stop what you’ve been doing altogether.
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Interview Presentation Skills: Dealing With Your Nerves
Sooner or later, the interview invitation is going to say you are required to give a presentation as part of the selection process. And like most people you may dread having to do it. Here's how you can overcome those interview presentation nerves.
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Reactions to Job Loss; Getting Past the Emotions
Most of us invest so much of ourselves in what we do that job loss can take away our sense of status and belonging, as well as the routine and support that work provides. With our job forming so much of our identity, it leaves us feeling disoriented and lost - but it can also be a first step to positive job or career change.
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Listening for Interview Success
Yes I know that we usually think of interviews as us doing all the talking, but the reality is different. At least 40% of the time we should be listening, and what we hear will have an enormous effect on what we say.
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Your Interview Questions Are a Serious Matter
Of course interviews are mainly about you answering the questions they put to you, but at the end of your allotted interview time, the questions that really matter most are yours. This also means that the interview doesn’t just fizzle out but ends positively.
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CVs And Resumes Sometimes Just Get In The Way
As a Head-hunter and Career Coach I see so many CVs and resumes that look as though they are designed to get in the way of what I (or any other recruiter) might need to know about you the candidate. They vary from pure meaningless waffle without any identifiable facts to lengthy tomes with so much detail they send me to sleep. And I persevere where many others wouldn't bother.
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Overcoming Inertia in Job Change
It can be especially difficult to be optimistic if you are feeling a little hurt or bruised following redundancy, but even when you know you need the change it can be difficult to get going.
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Avoid Your CV Always Ending Up in the Bin
Cover Letters must grab the reader's interest so that they immediately want to learn more about the writer (you). Your cover letter is generally the first document potential employers will read. So your job is to make sure it introduces you effectively and positively.
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Self Confidence, Job Loss and Anxiety
Your self confidence inevitably takes a knock when you lose your job – whatever the reason. What I’m going to describe is my version of what I believe you are going through, how it affects you, how it may affect your family or loved ones and what you can do about rebuilding your self-confidence.
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