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How to use LinkedIn to find a job

Job search: How to use LinkedIn to find a job

LinkedIn’s professional network allows both active job seekers and passive candidates to promote their capabilities to an audience of international companies and recruiters. Connect with past and present colleagues to grow your network and optimise your chances of being hired through referrals. Executives from the world’s top companies are on LinkedIn, giving members an opportunity-rich…

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Career Progression: How to resign from a job

Resigning from a job is something that most of us will have to face at some point in our careers – and there’s a right way and a wrong way to do it. If you’re thinking about quitting your job, here’s our best-practice guide to help you decide when to resign and how to resign….

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Personal Branding: How to manage your digital footprint

It’s always a good idea to regularly check your online presence, especially before you start looking for your next job. It is important to know what anyone in the public domain can see about you and tweak your online profile in order to ensure a positive digital footprint. An online background check by recruiters and…

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How to write a resume

Resumes & cover letters: How to write a resume

With hundreds of resumes coming their way, recruiters and hiring managers have limited time to read each resume in detail. In a matter of seconds, your resume either makes it on the shortlist, or not. As with any written content, there is an art and science behind writing a resume. Let’s examine what typically goes…

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Hiring: Are you making these 7 common hiring mistakes?

Want to find new hires who will perform and stay? Then don’t follow these common practices. In my 16 years in recruitment, I’ve seen the all-too-common mistakes many hiring managers make when they recruit for new hires. It’s understandable – time is limited and we all naturally fall back on the practices that seem most…

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Work life balance: What jobseekers want

Hiring: Work life balance: What jobseekers want

Work life balance: What jobseekers want more than money Your graduate recruitment program would want to attract top talent and you think just showing them the money would be enough – because that’s what job candidates want most, right? Not any more. Hudson research shows that for the first time in several years, work life…

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How to close an interview on the right note

Career advice: How to close an interview on the right note

Closing an interview is the time to really make your mark and clinch the deal after doing the hard work of the interview itself. The final minutes of an interview are your last chance to leave the interviewer with the take-home message: Hire me! Here are our top tips on how to close an interview…

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Career Progression: How to network your way to success

Effective professional networking tips In today’s connected world, networking is a career necessity – but it’s one that comes easily to some and not to others. Yet when done properly, business networking can make a massive difference to your career, often leading to new professional opportunities that you might otherwise have never been given. When…

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