Seeking out professional career advice is no different to many forms of professional advice. You can find a certain amount on Google, but if it doesn’t answer all your questions or tell you where to start, you can feel no more confident than when you started. Paying for professional help is an investment and you […]
How to approach a company when there is no advertised position?
Chris* was a communications and policy specialist, with a wealth of experience in health research, and was wanting to return to work after taking time off with her family. There was one organisation she had always wanted to work for, because of their global reach and reputation, but there hadn’t been any roles advertised since […]
How to pitch your value at any age or career phase
Regardless of your age or your career phase, the process of securing a new job requires a sales and marketing approach. The employer is the customer and you are selling the product, which is you. Being able to overcome the obvious or unspoken objections, through tailoring and pitching your experience to their needs and values, […]
When will the market wake up in 2021?
From where we were just 9 months ago, the recruitment market has been more buoyant than anyone would have expected. If you have been watching the job boards though, it may not have looked very positive. The reason why is that many of the opportunities and new jobs were through the hidden job market and […]
Tailor, Tailor, Tailor
In a competitive market whatever you’re selling, even if it’s yourself, has to cut through. With the current number of open vacancies being overwhelmed by applicants, employers are streamlining their application process to be able to quickly reduce it to a short list. They are also being much more specific about the job application steps […]