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Tips To Stay Positive And Motivated While Job Searching

Tips To Stay Positive And Motivated While Job Searching

At the start of a job search, you may feel hopeful and excited about what potential opportunities may lie ahead, but many job seekers easily fall into a slump as time passes. Job searching is no quick process — calls don’t necessarily come after you’ve submitted your resume; a second round of interviewing may end there; and even when it’s between you and one other candidate, the job offer may…

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Tips and motivation

For those moments when it’s hard to muster job-search motivation, keep these tips in mind.

If you’re one of the millions of Americans currently looking for a new job, your determination might waver at times. How do you stay motivated? Let’s take a look at these motivation tips for job seekers:

1. Get sunlight

Seeing the sun or being in sunlight is proven to make you feel good. As little as 10…

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How to stay mentally fit while job seeking.

How to stay mentally fit while job seeking.

Another day, another click to “connect” on LinkedIn. Your motivation bottoms out after searching for the latest variation of the same job with a different name. After checking—yet again—your stagnant inbox, you close your laptop in defeat.

It’s easy to get stuck in this draining cycle. My experience in the job search taught me that one of the biggest challenges is just maintaining the motivation…

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How to Write a Cover Letter

How to Write a Cover Letter

Unlike your resume, which is a straightforward list of former employers, accomplishments and job titles, your cover letter gives you a chance to display your character, address any gaps in your work history, mention whether a current employee referred you and showcase your fit for the job. Employers “are first and foremost looking for someone they’ll get along with,” says Alexandra Levit,…

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Ways to Jump-Start Your Job Search

Ways to Jump-Start Your Job Search

The very thought of having to start a job search can leave many professionals overwhelmed and feeling stuck in a job they don’t enjoy. With so much information available online and so many tools available to assist you with your job search, it can be hard to know where to start. Many job seekers feel they just don’t have time to update their networking profiles, resume and cover letter in order…

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The Most Effective Ways to Look for a Job

The Most Effective Ways to Look for a Job

Over dinner recently with a friend, she revealed that she’s unhappy in her job. She needs a new one, she said, but doesn’t really know what she wants or how to get started. “I guess I just need to update my resume and start applying,” she said.

When I heard that, I cringed. “Start applying” often means trolling big job boards and filling out applications. But while popular job boards like…

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Motivation To Jobseeker

Job hunting can be a daunting prospect for even the most prepared. Reduce the time and stress by adopting the characteristics of successful job seekers.

Self-awareness

Effective job seekers understand their key strengths and value, and can match these to their career goals. They also know where they will find the greatest sense of purpose and satisfaction. “It’s important to pursue a career that…

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Mental Preparation On Job Hunting

Mental Preparation On Job Hunting

I’ve met a lot of job seekers over the years. The successful ones – the ones who land jobs faster – approach their job search similarly. Here are the 10 job search secrets that set the best job seekers apart from average candidates. These secrets made all the difference:

Treat their job search as a full-time job

You may feel entitled to take some time off if you’ve been laid off, but don’t delay…

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Great Traits Of an Effective Job Seeker

Great Traits Of an Effective Job Seeker

Finding a job is not an easy task. It requires effort, commitment, unlimited moral strength and a good network of colleagues and friends around you. Independent of your qualities, life can lead you to specific behaviors and moments that mislead you to know what path you want for yourself.

Recently, while conducting steering different recruitment processes at Talentsquare, I’ve observed that a…

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Job Seekers Advice

Have you ever met someone who was out of work for a few days or weeks only to turn around and land a better opportunity? Even though you are happy for them, you can’t help but wonder what you are missing. Let’s be real—job searching is difficult, even for those who are prepared. The success of those with quick results may simply be that they share the same habits of highly effective job seekers.

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Write Your Own CV

Write Your Own CV

Do you need a CV profile?

The main reason for writing a profile is that it provides the kind of explanation you would give if you were presenting your CV in person. You’d probably say something like, “before you read this, let me tell you…” What you’re really saying is, “please notice this,” “don’t look at that” and “let me tell you the things I didn’t mention.”

Usually you won’t be in the room…

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Narrowing Down Suitable Oppotunities

Narrowing Down Suitable Oppotunities

Before you look at job adverts, it’s vital to have a good awareness of your skills, knowledge and experience, so that you can match yourself to roles that suits.

As a general rule, if you can tick 80% of the boxes, in terms of what the employer is asking for, then it might be worth applying. But sometimes you need to read between the lines, as some of the adverts can seem very vague at first.

Som…

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Thoughts On Resumes

In theory, nothing could be simpler than applying for a vacancy via a job board. You can browse thousands of great opportunities from the comfort of your home. When you spot a good match, it’s just a case of sending off your CV.

But with competition so fierce, employers are often swamped by CVs and have little time to read each one in detail. So candidates need to make sure they’re doing…

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STUDENTS

Description

The role is responsible for support with product costing processes including variable cost of locally produced vehicles.

Outputs: • Identify and document key processes within the product costing area • Assist with initiatives for constant improvements of key processes • Timely investigation, explanation and reporting of plant production and logistics variances and causes

Qualification…

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Graduate Trainee Program

Overview:

Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA) is always GOING FURTHER and is fully committed to supporting the National Government’s drive for the development of skills in South Africa to actively contribute to the economic growth of our Country.

FMCSA helps the youth of South Africa make their dreams for a bright future come true by providing invaluable practical experience in the…

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Tips On Effective Job Hunting

Tips On Effective Job Hunting

1. Time things right

Many people rush at a job search and apply for roles they have little interest in or are unlikely to be shortlisted for. Not only will this pretty much guarantee rejection, it will dampen your confidence. Similarly, if you approach agencies with a poor sense of your target job, you are likely to be sidelined. The third biggest mistake is to use up all your best contacts too…

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How To Network Around

How To Network Around

Networking is something we do naturally almost every day of our lives. We meet friends through other friends and very quickly we have built a network of contacts. The principle is exactly the same when it comes to developing and establishing a network to find out about jobs.

Networking is powerful and important job hunting and vacancy research technique. The job hunting guide, “What Color is…