Category Archives: Recruitment

Resume Real Estate is Valuable – Here is How to Use it Wisely

June 23, 2010 – 3:04 pm

You have no doubt read or heard it before that the reader of your resume spends around 30 seconds skimming through to see if anything stands out to warrant them taking a closer look at your resume. As such, the need to utilize the least amount of space as effectively as possible is paramount. Your [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Channel, Executive Job Searching, Resume Writing, Six Figures News | Comments (1)

WHY GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE STILL EXISTS

June 12, 2010 – 10:12 pm

“When it comes to bias, it seems that the desire to believe in a meritocracy is so powerful that until a person has experienced sufficient career-harming bias themselves they simply do not believe it exists” This article ‘How the Sex Bias Prevails’ by Shankar Vedantam in The Age on 15 May 2010 is a must [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Baby Boomers/ Third Agers, Human Resources, Information of Interest, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms | Comments (1)

Why the Job Seeking Experience is Set to Improve

May 5, 2010 – 3:05 pm

“The #1 reason why people turn down job offers is the way that they were treated during the hiring process.” In March this year, Dr. John Sullivan wrote a powerful article for ERE on How Candidate Abuse Is Costing Your Firm Millions of Dollars in Revenue. The article is written for Recruitment and HR professionals; however, [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Human Resources | Comments (1)

Resume Embellishments or Lies?

April 21, 2010 – 3:44 pm

Resume lies! Are they really lies or just embellishments and some clever marketing? It was a combination of some reading and DVD viewing that led to this post on the topic of resumes and whether we are in fact lying when we dress them up a bit to make them more interesting. I pose that [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Job Searching, Resume Writing, Searching for the Six Figure Job | Comments (3)

Executives and high income earners continue to strongly endorse job boards for finding jobs: Executive Monitor

March 7, 2010 – 10:57 pm

The Executive Monitor report, a study to understand the work behaviour and intention of Executives in Australia, has been released today. Job boards continue to remain an important channel for executives to find a job. While only 11.6% of executives credited job boards for finding direct employment, the vast majority (67%) planned on using job [...]

By Karen Jenkin | Also posted in Employers & Social Media, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Expats, Information of Interest, Job Boards & Job Hunting, Job Seeking & Social Media, Personal & Work Values, Personal Branding, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Searching for the Six Figure Job, Six Figures Press Releases, Social Media & Technology | Comments (1)

How to explain those gaps in your resume

February 17, 2010 – 12:23 am

Over the course of our employment the reality is that we are all going to have some gaps here and there in our resumes for a myriad of reasons. It could be due to travel, family, study, redundancy, a career break, ill-health, time off between employers and so on. In fact, it would be somewhat [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Executive Channel, Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Interviewing, Job Seeking & Social Media | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

Middle Aged Workers & Their Valuable Brains – Why Some Employers Are Missing Out

February 10, 2010 – 1:49 am

“Younger brains, predictably, are set up to focus on the negative and potential trouble. Older brains, studies show, often reach solutions faster, in part, because they focus on what can be done.” As a middle aged worker (deemed to be someone in the 40 – 60 year age bracket) the job search process can bring [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Baby Boomers/ Third Agers, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Job Searching, Information of Interest | Comments (1)

Is a mobile phone still considered a perk of the job?

February 3, 2010 – 9:44 pm

When negotiating your remuneration package with a current or prospective employer you have to ask yourself if a mobile phone is still considered a perk or not. The same could also be said about the laptop really. Given they are tools of trade required to do our jobs and that for most of us we [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Job Searching, Salary & Negotiation | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Hiring on potential – does it exist or is it only about what you have done?

February 2, 2010 – 11:09 pm

I  have been reading the fantastic book by Charles Handy ‘The Age of Unreason’ over the summer holidays. I was hooked after I found it on my father’s bookshelf and I cannot seem to stop thinking about the myriad of fascinating points the book raises. One of those points is the fact that most intelligent [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Interviewing, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Six Figures News | Tagged , , , , | Comments (9)

Why not to disclose your current salary at interviews

January 27, 2010 – 1:55 am

As 2010 kicks off, there will be a rapid increase in those moving jobs over the coming months – resulting in a lot of salary negotiations taking place across the country. When looking for new employment, inevitably you will be asked by recruitment agencies and employers alike for your salary information. Don’t fall into the [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Executive Career Management & Development, Interviewing, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Salary & Negotiation | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (18)