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    Career Blog

    Welcome to the Position Ignition Career Blog! Within this blog you will find free career advice and guidance covering the following areas: career change advice, job search strategy, CV writing and interview tips, issues in the workplace, skills development, career development, networking, social media, over 40s blogs, blogs for fun and much more!

    Thursday
    Jul292010

    10 Things a Career Advisor Shouldn't Do

    Careers professionals, such as advisors, coaches, mentors, counsellors, and guides can be helpful, but, like everything else in life, they are good ones, bad ones and ones in between. If your careers professional does any of these things you know you've definitely got someone who is not the best at career consulting!:

    1) Says 'You've got 10 minutes' as you sit down and then spends the whole of that 10 minutes checking his watch.

    2) Listens to you pour your heart out as you explain your career issues and then replies, 'I don't see what the problem is, everything sounds ok to me'.

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    Wednesday
    Jul282010

    10 ways to use LinkedIn for your job search

    LinkedIn brands itself as the social network for professionals and a lot of people do use it successfully for sharing information and news about their companies or discussing key issues in their industry. But what can LinkedIn do for the jobseeking professional? Many of us are not as clued in to all of LinkedIn's different features as we might be. However, it's worth getting to know this social network better as it has a surprising number of tools for helping your job search. Here are ten ways in which we can use LinkedIn in our pursuit for the right career.

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    Tuesday
    Jul272010

    How not to be a bossy boss!

    You've finally made it to the top of the team / department / company / industry / world / universe and are now the boss.  It's a nice position to be in, but what if you let power go to your head and end up driving your employees mad? Never fear-here are a few tips to keep you grounded and stop you turning into a bossy boss!

    1 Don't threaten violence-Bob may have given you the slip to go for his 716th cigarette break today, but that's no excuse to tell his colleagues 'I'm going to break his neck when he comes back!' You never know how seriously they might take you...

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    Monday
    Jul262010

    Why we shouldn't rush the job search

    In a recent survey of more than 5000 UK jobseekers by TotalJobs.com, it was found that 60% spend less than two hours working on each application following a job search, all inclusive of the time it takes to write a CV and covering letter, and to prepare for an interview.

    What does this reveal? It seems that many of us think that when we’re looking for a job, we have to cram in as many job applications as possible. The laws of probability determine that the more jobs we apply for, the more chance we’ll have of getting one, right? What we don’t realise is that it just doesn’t work like that. An employer organisation will hire you because your application and interview were of a high quality. You made the effort to show that you have what that organisation values in terms of both capability and enthusiasm for the particular role. You won’t get hired by any organisation just because you happened to apply to 99 others. That just doesn’t make any sense!

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    Friday
    Jul232010

    Top Ten Networking Books

    Even the most confident, social and outgoing among us may find the prospect of both personal and professional networking daunting at times. From an early age we’re taught “don’t talk to strangers” but when we grow up, we suddenly find ourselves thrust into situations, be it at parties or business events, where we’re expected to initiate conversation with random individuals who we’ve never seen before, don’t know and have nothing to do with. Not only that, but we’re expected to get tangible results out of such encounters. Be it our matchmaking friend or our sales manager, they expect you to leave that party or conference with a date or a business card.

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