The TikTok Video Resume
Whilst LinkedIn has been seen as the place to advertise and find jobs, there is strong competition from other social media platforms including FaceBook and now TikTok. TikTok is trialling TikTok Resumes to allow users apply for jobs on video. Just in the USA the pilot companies include Chipotle, Target ,and Shopify. The social video […]
Online interviews
One of my clients has a Zoom interview on Monday and asked for tips. I knew I’d previously written about this on my website Over three years ago I wrote an article on Skype interviews, and although we all seem to have moved to Zoom or Teams, it’s still relevant. This is from nearly 8 […]
Tips For Acing a Group Interview
We’ve highlighted the vast number of things that you have to keep in mind when looking for a job in our article on Job Search Tips for 1st time Job Seekers so we understand how the idea of a group interview only adds to your growing number of worries as it may be something you’ve never experienced before. To help you out with this, we’ve […]
The Screening phone interview
Apply for a job via a recruitment consultancy and the first step is likely to be a screening interview. A recruiter phone screen interview is a lot different from an in-person interview with the hiring manager. Recruiters are busy people who sometimes have hundreds of candidates to consider for dozens of vacancies they need to […]
Demonstrating empathy at interview
Most people think we are recruited for our skills, but these can be learned. What’s essential are well developed social skills. Empathy is an important. Empathy is the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling. You can demonstrate this at interview when […]
Christmas At The Gas Station
The old man sat in his gas station on a cold Christmas Eve. He hadn’t been anywhere in years since his wife had passed away. It was just another day to him. He didn’t hate Christmas, just couldn’t find a reason to celebrate. He was sitting there looking at the snow that had been falling […]
Improve your interview skills by recording your answers
How to improve your interview skills Interview coaching to learn interview skills by recording your answer scan help you get the job. Getting one to one specific guidance will help you to prepare, answer questions more effectively and build confidence. You can help yourself improve your interview skills: Identify possible interview questions. Look at the […]
Tell Me about your Weaknesses – Interview answer
Tell Me about your Weaknesses Just because an interviewer asks you to ‘tell me about your weaknesses”, you don’t have to open up as if it’s a therapy session! In answer to – Tell Me about your Weaknesses, don’t tell the recruiter that you are shy and find it hard to strike up conversations with […]
Learning from the Psychology of Football
This is the first year I’ve followed football. Taken to matches in the Northern Premier League as a child, I rebelled as soon as I could and proclaimed my indifference to football. But this World Cup … I’m gripped! I’m interested in the skill, but also the relationship side – and how the team work […]
Recruitment advice from Elon Musk
When asked by an audience member at Austin’s annual South by Southwest (SXSW) festival on what has been his “biggest mistake,” entrepreneur and Tesla/SpaceX founder Elon Musk said? “The biggest mistake, in general, I’ve made, is to put too much of a weighting on someone’s talent and not enough on their personality. And I’ve made […]
