When you start crafting your CV, you are writing an advertisement to sell yourself to the prospective employer. Your CV is designed to promote your skills, qualifications, experience, and education that make you the perfect fit for the position. If you are applying for a job in the Middle East, there are certain nuances that you need to be aware of. Just as your CV should be tailored to each specific job, it should also be tailored to fit different regions and cultures around the world as you are considering employment across international boundaries. Hiring managers and organisations in the M ..read more

To ensure that your resume is free of errors that might raise a red flag , it is important to review the resume with a checklist after writing it. Pasted below is a Resume Checklist with instructional guidance to ensure that your resume is perfect!  1. Clear Objective Lately, there is a lot of fuss over whether or not the career objective is important to a professional resume. However, the objective section in a resume continues to add value to the candidature and is considered important to most jobs. An ideal resume objective is a clear and concise stat ..read more

While many of us login to our profiles on a daily basis to check in with friends or share events, LinkedIn, in particular, can be an incredibly powerful tool for job hunting, provided we leverage the toll to its fullest If you’re wondering how to use LinkedIn for job hunting, there are many ways in which you can do so that extend beyond the LinkedIn jobs search tool. It can be used to network, connect with other users and to sell your credentials as the ideal candidate to any potential employers, who often favor this method of recruitment over sifting through piles of CVs Pasted below are some ..read more

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Most resumes are nothing more than a collection of facts about your past. This becomes boring no matter how extraordinary you are. As a best practise, we should be putting hot stuff in the beginning, and all this information afterwards. Pasted below are few tips – 1. Don’t over-complicate things – A resume does not need color, fancy fonts, borders etc unless you are in the creative industry. All a resume needs is Summary of Qualifications, Education and Certifications, Work Experience and Technical Skills (in case of a technical job role). 2. Does not use resume templates or tables – Recruiter ..read more

In today’s competitive environment, Professional Branding in LinkedIn has gained much more importance because employers today are looking out for LinkedIn as a tool for searching Profiles and hiring them accordingly and therefore it’s important to stand out in crowded LinkedIn. Pasted below are few steps – 1. Use Professional Profile Picture – Your profile picture can be one of the most important elements of your LinkedIn presence. Research shows that just having a picture makes your profile 14 times more likely to be viewed by others. To increase your response rates, INVEST in your profile pi ..read more

Writing a CV to get you a job is not the same in 2016 as it was in 2006. The challenge of creating a successful CV is making it stand out from the crowd for the scanning software that are used to narrow down a candidate search. Both employers and recruitment agencies, use it as the main way of sourcing the best candidates for a job, so getting your CV in order for this purpose may significantly increase you chances of getting through the initial screening for a job that you are looking out for. Pasted below are a few tips to facilitate your career growth- o Industry / Job specific keywords In ..read more

Employers receive large number of CV’s for each job advertised. The CV is not what gets you the job; it’s what gets you the interview. CV is just about the 1st impression that we create on a prospective employer. Pasted below are a few tips on how to make your CV stand out from the crowd and facilitate your chances of getting through the initial screening- • Use it as a Sales Tool – As discussed earlier in our Blogs, the CV is an opportunity to sell yourself to the employers. Be specific and include a profile about yourself with your key attributes/core competencies, as this will give the recr ..read more

When you start crafting your CV, you are writing an advertisement to sell yourself to the prospective employer. Your CV is designed to promote your skills, qualifications, experience, and education that make you the perfect fit for the position. If you are applying for a job in the Middle East, there are certain nuances that you need to be aware of. Just as your CV should be tailored to each specific job, it should also be tailored to fit different regions and cultures around the world as you are considering employment across international boundaries. Hiring managers and organisations in the M ..read more