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Career, Job Hunting, Trends, Work from Home

Budget 2024 Expectations: What does the HR Community expect from the budget?

The employment market is at a crossroad. On one hand the advent of AI in mainstream jobs has made the market very exciting and new opportunities have started to spring up; on the other hand, we are still in a recessive economy where jobs are limited and salary raises are unheard of. At this juncture, the budget is something everybody has their eyes on as far as the HR community is concerned. The government’s measures at controlling unemployment rates, and ensuring upskilling programs reach the masses so that they are prepared for the coming AI revolution, will be key in…

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LinkedIn, Social Media, Trends

Suggestions for a Powerful Executive LinkedIn Profile in 2023

LinkedIn has approximately 400 million, worldwide users. It has emerged as an effective social media platform that can help professionals belonging to different industries interact with each other. Moreover, many job hunters and recruiters use it as a medium to find jobs and suitable candidates for the openings, respectively. Considering these uses, professionals must leverage the power of LinkedIn and optimize their profiles so that recruiters and other professionals can find them easily for recruitment and collaboration offers. Creating a robust executive LinkedIn profile is not easy. You need to consider various factors while optimizing your profile to make sure…

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Career, Resume Writing, Trends

What Are the Top Skills to Put on a Resume and How to Learn Them

Much of the global workforce is highly migratory at this point, and thus a lot of the value of a resume lies in skills that are transferable between different jobs and sectors. Most of the exact skills an employer is looking for are often clearly specified in the job description, which is your first port of call when adapting a resume for a job. Company pages and employee profiles may also divulge clues. But there are a number of skills on an application that are broadly sought after across industries, a few of which we’ll discuss below. Leadership Skills The…

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Career, Job Hunting, LinkedIn, Social Media, Trends

LinkedIn Profile Tips That Will Help You Stand Out

In today’s fast-paced modern life, there are numerous potential job seekers in the market striving for new jobs and posts. Creating a LinkedIn profile helps you get an edge as compared to your competitors and paves your way to getting hired for your dream job. There are multiple sources used by recruiters for hiring the right candidates but LinkedIn remains their top preference to date. The LinkedIn platform helps you build valuable connections and grow your career. It is a professional networking site and not only a job board, which not only helps you acquire jobs but also aids in…

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Biography, Executive Leadership, Trends

Executive Biography: A 360-Degree Overview and How It Can Complement an Executive Resume

Executive hiring is a proactive process and it is seldom accomplished through the traditional hiring approach. You will rarely find an executive-level job posting making its way into an advertisement. Therefore, sending out copies of a thoughtfully developed resume across your network will not work; even a supporting document like a cover letter might not do the job for you. To provide a big picture of your career and journey, you need an Executive Biography. Check out some Samples Below. [1] Executive Biography of Information Security Professional [2] Executive Biography of Customer Service Leader [3] Executive Biography of Scholar, Academician,…

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Career, Resume Writing, Trends

Why right now is a great time to work on your Resume and Career Goals

The Corona Virus (or Covid19) Pandemic has brought the whole world to its knees. Production has stopped, industries are at a standstill, and everyone is worried and scared. But it doesn’t mean we won’t bounce back! Governments are taking precautions and locking cities down. Most educated people are socially distancing themselves and it is only a matter of time before we, as a race, defeat the virus and get back to our normal lives. This time, the lock down phase, is when most of us are at home and keeping a distance from all kinds of social distractions. It’s a…

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Career, Communication, Job Hunting, Resume Writing, Trends

Your Writing Skills can show you a career path with Numerous Options & Opportunities

 “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing” – Benjamin Franklin In schools and colleges, teachers or professors often give topics to write something – essays, journals, or paragraphs. If we are able to express our thoughts and opinions fine through the writings, we score well and sometimes we even receive an appreciation. Our writings get published in school magazines, children paper editions, etc.  As a result of these reasons, we often think of enhancing our writing skills and have a feeling that a career in writing may not be a bad choice. Writing as a Profession. Writing…

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Arts, Career, Job Hunting, Resume Writing, Trends

Love to doodle? Create a career out of it!

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” – Confucius You have started it as hobby or interest to draw something without thinking about what you are doing. You used to mess around with pencils and draw figures from your imagination. Then, why not start treating this hobby as a business tool and think of building a solid career?? Doodling Doodling is a fun way to draw beautiful and original designs with cute and child-like characters or random and abstract patterns. Doodling is a great means to engage the mind in…

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Career, Job Hunting, Resume Writing, Trends

Beautiful Handwriting? Try a career in calligraphy

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are very human way of making life more bearable.” – Kurt Vonnegut Good handwriting can create great impressions, it augments your personality and the person who is watching your writing gets stunned by how beautifully you can write. Maybe you have always received compliments about your handwriting, so why not consider those compliments seriously and think of starting a career in calligraphy?? What is Calligraphy? Calligraphy is the craft of fine handwriting, a visual art where the legibility of letters may be compromised in favour of visual extravagance. Calligraphy…

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