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Job Search Tips In A Post Pandemic Setting

While the pandemic has changed businesses in many ways, it has also affected how people search for jobs. The number one question job applicants ask is how businesses have handled the pandemic and how it has impacted their employees’ lives and safety. But

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Recruitment

Knowing The Different Types of Recruiters

Receiving a phone call from a recruiter to discuss your resume is pretty exciting. However, it is worth considering that not all phone calls might be beneficial. Some might not even be worth taking, and some may not be working

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How To Eliminate Stress from Remote Working

It’s been long enough since we started working from home for us all to have become comfortable with remote working. And although most businesses have reopened and many have gone back to face to face working, some of us have recognized that

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Keeping Resilience in Remote Working

One of the most notable moments in this year’s Brit Awards was Taylor Swift’s speech. She said something along the lines of “no career path is without negativity”. And as someone who has worked for years, I agree wholeheartedly. You see,

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Resumes

The Anatomy Of A Good Resume

Sugar, spice, and everything nice. These are the key ingredients to the perfect something, but it’s not what we’re looking for. So what does a good resume look like? It has the right format. There are different types of resume

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Resumes

Things To Take Off Your Resume

“This is the best resume I have ever seen” – says one post in a Creatives Group. Looking at the six-page photo group, it definitely is not.  There are different types of resumes with some managers preferring one over another.

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Recruitment

10 Creative Interview Questions You Can Ask

Interviews can be pretty predictable after some time. And that causes a lot of applicants to just memorize or reuse answers they might have already given before. So how do we extract personality-driven answers and avoid textbook ones? Easy. Shake things up

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Recruitment

Interview Answers To Look For

It’s another day. You have your coffee on your left, and a number of resumes on the right. You go through the resumes to orient yourself better with the candidates’ basic information. Right outside the room is the first one

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Recruitment

Hiring Outside the Interview Box

Interviews are crucial to the hiring process. It’s where a hiring manager asks things that aren’t in your resume, and tries to know and assess you better. It’s where they figure out if you’re THE best candidate for the team.

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Recruitment

Slaying Your Interview Dragons

Nerves can be a hassle, especially during an interview. And hey, that’s normal. I guess that’s because a lot of people see interviewers as some kind of monsters. They’re not. They’re human beings like you who have their own personalities

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COMING SOON – The Conference Room Podcast

New episodes of The Conference Room coming your way every Monday starting December 21, 2020! Listen up as Simon talks to Kristy Yoder of Delegate Your Way to Success podcast about what to watch out for in these new episodes.

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Recruitment

“Sell me a Glass of Water”

Fifteen years before Leonardo DiCaprio’s “sell me this pen” speech in Wolf of Wall St, I had a client come into our offices for two straight days of interviewing. This was early 2000’s and he was a 1980s throwback; high

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La La Land won Best Picture… until it didn’t
Recruitment

5 Hiring La La Lessons from the Oscars

A hiring lesson for each achievement! 1. Emma Stone beat Meryl Streep to Best Actress On the surface, this was never going to be a fair fight. Prior to the 2017 nominations, Meryl Streep had nineteen Oscar nominations – fifteen for

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Leadership

The Five Best Leadership Mentors in TV History

1. Walter White (Breaking Bad) Building a business from scratch? Identifying a market need and fulfilling it? Managing both production and distribution? Dominating the market by eliminating the competition? What’s not to like about New Mexico’s favorite chemistry teacher turned

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Recruitment

Why Should You Read This?

If you are an IT professional, or if you run sales or presales teams, or are simply responsible for HR or recruitment within the IT sector, this is the blog for you! I’m Simon Lader. I have helped software vendors

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