Category Archives: Job Hunting

Job Hunting advice

10 steps to develop your online brand

10 steps to develop your online brand

10 steps to develop your online brand This is an extract from our new book on the 10 steps to develop your online brand, published today called You're Hired! Job Hunting Online: The Complete Guide. by Tristram Hooley, Jim Bright and David Winter. Published by Trotman. 1. Decide what it is you have to offer. The first step in ...

Share

My top 10 career development books

Career Development Books

My top 10 career development books It is an almost impossible task to come up with a definitive list of my top ten career development books. However I set myself the task of choosing a list of books that met my following criteria. My top ten career development books: I have personally found them useful and inspirational ...

Share

The top 10 words of 2011 or of all time?

LinkedIn report the top 10 clichés found on LinkedIn profiles in 2011 (see here).  So how do these words stack up in terms of historic usage?  Using a relatively unknown google research feature called Ngram, we can see how often each of these words have appeared in books since the 1500s!  It is interesting to ...

Share

110 Job Hunting Resume, CV and Interview Tips

110 job hunting resume cv and interview tips from Jim Bright Here are some tips for Job Hunting, Resumes, Interviews, and Testing for 2011. As an author of job hunting books that have sold way in the 100,000s in the USA, UK, Australia, China, Vietnam, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Japan (you get the idea), with titles like Amazing ...

Share

Getting Amazing Results on your resume

Amazing Resumes by Jim Bright and Jo Earl

Extract from Amazing Resumes by Jim Bright & Jo Earl, published by Jist This post covers issues to do with CV layout, and how to deal with your education and qualifications on your resume.  Before the extract is a short background to the book. Background The material comes from my book Amazing Resumes.  This book is the ...

Share

Oppositional Thoughts…Volume 4

Here is Volume 4 of my Oppositional Thoughts...They are designed to gently puncture some of the slightly precious life advice out there, and to complexify overly simplistic homilies, that make life appear a lot simpler than it is in reality. You can find Volume 3 here and Volume 2 here and Volume 1 here Oppositional thoughts...There is ...

Share

Strangling Animals? Golf? What your hobbies say about you…

Paul Simon began "have a good time" with "yesterday it was my birthday...". Well that was in the 1970s and you couldn't get your LED watches to work properly, the batteries kept running out. So we can forgive Mr Simon for being a day late with his birthday...probably waiting for Arty's card to arrive. Anywhere where ...

Share