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Category Archives: Candidate Resources

Interpersonal Skills – do you have them?

People regularly use words like “strong interpersonal skills” when describing themselves and companies often ask for good interpersonal skills when looking for new staff. From our experience, few people can give a useful description of what Interpersonal skills really are, but CEB (previously Saville Holdsworth),  a global leader in Talent measurement, gives us some useful insight.

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Personal Branding

No, no not that sort of branding, I’m talking about Building the Brand of You.  It’s all about Personal Branding.

What is Personal Branding?  Personal Branding is about who you are.  How you are perceived and what you want to achieve.  For all you Packaging Technologists out there it’s your “self-packaging”.

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It’s all about Building your Personal Brand

Enough Procrastinating!

A couple of months on from our last conversation and I admit to spending the entire time procrastinating.  This is because I know what comes next.  It’s time to put all the navel gazing into action.

It’s all about Personal Branding.  Never ever, underestimate the power of a strong personal brand. Your authenticity, credibility and trustworthiness depends on it.

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One small step for mankind, one giant leap for your career

You know how your manager asks a question and in your head you process how you think the conversation and your thought process should go only to realise you’re not thinking in your head, you are thinking out loud… AND it’s too late to take the words back…

That’s how I now find myself in this predicament.

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What are you really good at?

More importantly… Can you prove it?

Recently I have had the pleasure of meeting with candidates currently out of work to help with how they present themselves in the employment market.  That’s not unusual I hear you say, isn’t that your job?

Yes, very astute of you it is my job,  but I thought this week I should share with you the reoccurring theme arising from my meetings.

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The Snowball Effect

It’s not easy to focus on yourself when it comes to job hunting and most of us do not know where to start.  Recently we came across an article which provides a starting point for you.

You don’t build momentum at home while emailing recruiters or beating up the job boards rings true

We especially like the point of “Helping Others.”  It takes time to get the ball rolling…

 

You’ve heard of the snowball effect.

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