We spend many hours of our life at work, so it is no wonder that your working environment can have an impact on your emotional well-being. How your job and work environment affect your everyday mood, enthusiasm and productivity is a hot topic right now with employers. Many employers are now taking positive steps towards improving office spaces and working environments for their staff.
Searching for a new job can be a long and frustrating task, especially when you are already employed and working full-time. Whether you are taking a significant career change, or you are just trying to climb up a rung or two on your career ladder, leaving your current job need not be a dramatic affair like what is often seen depicted in the movies.
Thousands of fresh-faced students attempt to take their first steps towards their chosen career each year by taking up an internship. With participation rates increasing almost threefold in recent years, the pressure is on to make sure that your resume is on point to land you the internship that you want.
While we all want to make our resume look as comprehensive as possible, we still need to have a one-page version. Trying to fit all of our information onto our resume may lead us to create a multiple-page document, but the truth is that not many recruiters manage to read past the first page.
This post has been originally published on Oct 26, 2016 and has been extensively revised and updated on April 23, 2018.
We all know how important is it to have a top-class resume to deliver to your prospective employer or company recruitment officer, but many job seekers tend to forget how crucial it is to back up your resume with a solid cover letter.
Whether you are a customer service professional looking to move up the ladder, or you are looking at ways to take your first steps into the industry, then you will need to craft your resume carefully to not only to stand out from the crowd, but also to ensure you land yourself an interview where you can truly shine. No matter what is your current situation, a career in customer services can take you far. In fact, the industry is forecasted to increase by 13% by 2022 according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
As a college student, you need to approach your resume writing a little differently than someone already working and looking to change their job or career path.
You should try to put more emphasis not only on your work history, but also on your educational experience too. It can be difficult to demonstrate your skills to someone when you haven’t got a lengthy work history, but highlighting your experience of any volunteer work that you have undertaken as well as any relevant extra-curricular activities that you think would help add value to your resume will certainly help.
There’s such a thing as changing your job too often. But there are also times when you can stay in a job too long. Knowing how to find the center ground between these two can be difficult. There are signs, however, that the time has come to consider changing your job and here are some to watch for.
One of the biggest growth areas in terms of job types in recent years has been the rise of the freelancer. This is someone who is self-employed or maybe is even their own company. They work with other businesses or individuals offering freelance services. There are nearly countless different types of job you can try in this area but how do you know if it is the right choice for you?
LinkedIn isn’t a new social media site, in fact, it is one of the older ones. But in recent years people have increasingly realized how important it is when you are looking for a new job, creating a network for your professional life and to find out more about your industry. Here’s our simple guide to using LinkedIn successfully to find a new job.
