July 7th Blog

One of the hardest things being in between jobs is your family is counting on you to support them. Your days seem tense and worrisome, your only desire is to get a job offer. It's as if you stepped off reality and payments are mounting. Needs are starting to become appallingly clear, the time for bargaining with yourself and what you would do with another chance is here. Your now talking to yourself and know today is the day. Make a plan and stop feeling sorry for yourself. If it take small steps so be it. Give up and somebody else would have that job offer.

Did you know?

Some 80% of applicants fail to get through the online application processes.

You need to know how to identify key words which the employers will use to include or exclude you during this purely electronic stage of selection.

Around 60% of applicants who attend an interview are eliminated at the interview stage.

All the “blue-chip” companies use face to face interviews that are “criteria based”. In other words, the questions will have been developed by psychologists to identify particular behaviours that are displayed by the company’s most successful people. If you don’t know the “right way” to answer the questions, you will be one of the 60% who fail.

May 4th Blog

Today I am writing a short list of coaches and or counselors to cite for an example of why a person needs a professional resource. This list is far from exhaustive however it is quite frankly an eye opener if you think about what a person would do without them.