I could make this a very short blog this week by writing “Are you INSANE?” and leave it at that. But let’s try to figure out why all those Internet pundits who get paid to write Human Resource/recruitment/life coaching articles based on common sense seem to have lost theirs. Here are the arguments for holding
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October 22, 2012
- By: Margaret
- job searching advice, Margaret Says
October 15, 2012
- By: Margaret
- interview advice, Margaret Says
They hire by PERSONALITY?
Yup, that they do. Think about it, lads and lassies. Let’s start with the more mundane jobs – I don’t want to offend anyone with what I consider mundane but e.g. if you’re a minimum-wage barista, then you have to be pleasant to customers, or you’ll start affecting their revenue as customers disappear to the
October 8, 2012
- By: Margaret
- Margaret Says, resume advice
I’ve been out of work for, er, ahem, QUITE some time
There have always been reasons that resumes stop w–a–y before the actual date they were sent out to prospective employers. With today’s economy, that has never been more the case. We’re not talking out of work for a few months here, sometimes now it’s two and three years. Do you not say anything on your
October 1, 2012
- By: Margaret
- Margaret Says
“I hate my job”
Maybe you have, alas, very good reasons to hate your job. Maybe it’s not as bad as you think but you hate it anyway. It doesn’t matter why and let’s not make this week’s blog a real downer with listing all sorts of ghastly reasons why you just HAVE to win the lottery. The point is you
September 17, 2012
- By: Margaret
- Margaret Says, social media advice
Don’t Twitter on Twitter
Social media sites are here to stay. Most of the young ‘uns embrace them, older ones aren’t always so interested (fuddie duddie stick-in-the-muddies) and, funnily enough, the really older ones with teenage grandchildren and time on their hands are quite the dab hand at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Pinterest and the like. These sites
September 10, 2012
- By: Margaret
- interview advice, Margaret Says
What Not To Wear….Say….Do….
….today’s lesson, gals and guys, will be to talk about the wrongstuff when you visit an employment agency. First, though, please, a word about employment agencies from our point of view. We are here to help you find jobs, and to help our clients find the very best people to fill those jobs. We help
September 4, 2012
- By: Margaret
- Margaret Says, resume advice
5 resume dos, 5 resume don’ts
5 dos: Bullet points. The days of prose to give an overview of your job are gone the way of the dodo (and, if we don’t watch out, the tiger and the polar bear. But that’s for a whole other blog). Remember that whoever is looking over your resume has limited
August 27, 2012
- By: Margaret
- Margaret Says, resume advice, resume formatting
To proof or not to proof…
You’d think it was a given, wouldn’t you, that you should carefully proof your resume? But a depressing number of resumes that end up in front of me have mistakes in them. Some minor, some pretty horrendous. Two of my favorite examples: a) Two proofreaders who managed to misspell the word proofreading on their resumes.
August 20, 2012
- By: Margaret
- interview advice, Margaret Says
What To Wear?
Usually it’s so simple deciding what to wear for interview and indeed on the job that it’s hardly worth discussing. But the younger generation has a different sensibility from boring old Margaret, so that it’s worth a blog article about it. Not that I, Margaret, am the one who decides what’s correct! It’s your potential
August 13, 2012
- By: Margaret
- interview advice, Margaret Says
One job: four interviews: same ol’ questions
Lovely company, people seem normal and you could work happily with them. Good job, money and benefits. We’ve established therefore that you really want the job. But frankly, the interviewing team e.g. mixture of HR, managers and future colleagues haven’t quite got it together to co-ordinate questions & feedback. In the course of the interviews