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To get a side-hustle off the ground you'll need to learn business skills.

You'll need to learn how to make sure your business gets noticed. This means learning how to market. Specifically, how to pitch, how to create content which gets consumed and how to ...

Who do you follow? Did the number of your followers increase or decrease this week? Was your name mentioned on the FollowFriday list? Which of your tweets has the most favourites or retweets? Are the above mentioned terms part of your standard vocabulary?


Great, then you probably already belong to ...

Yes, we all have bad days at work and some of us even take to social media to vent our frustrations – but again, you need to be careful! Not only is bad-mouthing your current employer in public bad practice, it’s also extremely risky. Not only do you risk your potential new employer seeing it, but ...

More and more recruiters are using social media tools like LinkedIn to find the best candidates in the market. As a graduate on the job hunt, it’s important to not only have an up-to-date resume but also an optimized LinkedIn profile in order to open doors and land that dream job.


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A couple of months ago I went to see my favourite comedian Stewart Lee. I love the way he de-constructs comedy and expects a lot from his audience. “I hope you’ve all seen me before. I don’t like new people” would be a typical opening line for him.


During the show a fly (or it could have been a ...

What do you get when you pair an innovative new hiring method with incentives that can help your recruitment process? No, it’s not an odd equation. It’s a formula that can produce better hiring results, increased engagement from your employees, and the satisfaction of knowing you’ve brought on some ...

Alongside this, for the first time we are seeing a number of areas related to sourcing being tested or checked if candidates do get to interview. You can now often expect to have your Boolean strings tested at interview potentially with a live example mid-interview; and if you claim and place value ...

There’s a lot of talk about resumes dying a slow, painful death in 2014. I think that this position is only partially true.

If you apply for a job today, chances are, you'll be asked to submit a resume.

Sure, you might be head-hunted through LinkedIn or a forward-thinking employer will insist that ...

I have a name – it’s Ms. Hanna Hires – and a job title – Talent Acquisition Manager – for ABC Industries. If you weren’t so quick to hit the Apply Now button on our company website, your resume might have made it to the top of my candidate pile.

I really don’t like perusing cover letters addressed ...

The environment you work in can have a significant impact on your happiness and productivity, but many people don’t take this into account when choosing where to work. According to the 2014 Human Spaces Report, 77% of people would not let the design of an office affect their decision to work there ...