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16/02/2015
10 Toxic Words you Must not Say in a Job Interview – Bernard Marr There’s plenty advice out there to rehearse what you’re going to say in a job interview: research questions the interviewer might ask, practice your answers, come up with salient questions of your own…But what about rehearsing what you’re not going to…
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09/02/2015
What dinosaur would you be?’ Bizarre interview questions revealed How do you choose the questions you ask a candidate during an interview? Perhaps you’re most interested in how they took ownership of a project at their current job, or maybe where they would like to be in five years’ time – or maybe you’d really…
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02/02/2015
Anybody applying for a new job has inevitably come across the cover letter and probably wondered whether they should or shouldn’t write one. This is widely disputed in the recruitment industry, with some recruiters ignoring the first page and heading straight to the candidates CV and others reading it intently. Personally, I believe a covering…
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26/01/2015
Next time someone at work tells you “the only person holding you back is yourself”, resist the urge to throttle them in the emergency stairwell or waterboard them behind the water cooler. Instead, ask yourself if they’re right. There’s a good chance they are – and, besides, the reason this workplace clich_ has become a…
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19/01/2015
Today’s professional communicators must have the skills to adapt to change. Change is ever present and internal comms teams are now responsible for driving and facilitating the message – as well as delivering it. This means professionals need to be more skilled, learned – and agile. http://www.ioic.org.uk/news/2015/january-2015/%E2%80%98agile-ic%E2%80%99-is-conference-theme.html
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12/01/2015
As we move into 2015, communicators will be thinking about ways to strengthen their digital output. Several notable trends are predicted to come into effect over the next year and Hotwire PR has pinned down some of these in its sixth annual, and final, Digital Trends Report. The report will be the last ever of…
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15/12/2014
More than 45,000 people work in UK internal comms, says new report More than 45,000 people work in internal comms in the UK, considerably higher than previous estimates of around 20,000 and suggesting an upward trend, according to new research. http://www.prweek.com/article/1326235/45000-people-work-uk-internal-comms-says-new-report
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09/12/2014
Mentoring platform guides fledgling digital professionals Much has been said about the skills gap affecting the digital industry, and this has led to companies deciding to take the education of the next generation into their own hands. One of the organisations fuelling this trend is Connect Mentors. A mentoring organisation, Connect Mentors uses an online…
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01/12/2014
Two in three firms believe they are ill-equipped for digital comms Two thirds of company bosses expect to increase their use of digital and social media over the next two years, but the same proportion believe they are ill-equipped to deal with greater levels of digital communication. http://www.prweek.com/article/1324148/two-three-firms-believe-ill-equipped-digital-comms
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24/11/2014
Job satisfaction vs job security – what’s more important to the nation’s job seekers in 2015? Finding a job which provides excitement and challenges is more important to current job seekers than one which provides stability and security, according to a recent study by leading UK job board, CV-Library http://www.onrec.com/news/news-archive/job-satisfaction-vs-job-security-%E2%80%93-what%E2%80%99s-more-important-to-the-nation%E2%80%99s-job-seeke
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