Personal Branding: 5 tips to optimise your digital profile
Social media has become an additional tool for employers and recruiters to look up potential candidates. Even when you may not be looking for a job, others are taking note of your digital footprints. How does your digital profile look and how can you improve it to advance your career?
Job Interviews: How to prepare for a job interview
Most people have a general understanding of how to prepare for an interview. Yet, it can be easy to overlook some of the details, especially if you’re feeling a bit nervous or you’re focusing on preparing for common interview questions. To help take some of the stress out of your prep, here’s a handy guide…
Assessment: Make better hiring decisions with success profiling
How success profiling can help you make better hiring decisions Any manager who has ever hired someone who didn’t end up performing as well as expected – or perhaps was a complete disaster – knows that recruitment selection can be an inexact science. As human beings, our unconscious biases lead us towards hiring people we…
Leadership: Leadership behaviours: risk of derailing
The high risk of derailing leadership behaviours Have you ever worked for a “bulldozer” boss? Someone so focused on results that they leave a path of anxiety and intimidation in their wake? Or how about a “micro-manager” who leaves their imprint on every office matter while still complaining they have too much work to do?…
Leadership: How Queensland Health is becoming a more agile organisation
How Queensland Health is becoming a more agile organisation – one leader at a time By Helene Dyer Senior Director, Culture and Capability Unit, Queensland Department of Health In a world that’s rapidly changing thanks to technology and connectivity, every organisation – whether in the public or private sector – needs people who are agile…
Resumes & cover letters: How to make a video job application
With digital technologies being used more in the hiring and selection of new employees, it’s becoming more common for recruiters and employers to request that candidates submit a video as part of their job application. A video job applications is a way for employers to get an idea of your personality and whether you’ll be…
Hiring: 3 questions every employer should ask in an interview
3 questions every employer should ask in an interview Candidates today are increasingly prepared for classic interview questions. To find out what you really need to know you may need to ask a few unusual questions. Most employers today are not trained interviewers yet they need to make decisions about talent that will define either…
Job search: Make your LinkedIn profile stand out
Tips to make your LinkedIn profile stand out With more than 450 million members worldwide, LinkedIn is a social networking service that you can’t ignore as a professional. Follow these 8 simple steps to boost your LinkedIn profile visibility and make sure you are seen by prospective employers. Here are 8 simple ways you can boost…