Category Archives: Searching for the Six Figure Job

e-Book Review ’125 Twitter Job Search Tips’

November 8, 2011 – 6:08 pm

Position Ignition is a leading career consultancy in the UK that produce content to assist job seekers and career changers via their website and blog.  They have a variety of careers e-books, one of which is 125 Twitter Job Search Tips.  It is a great resource for those that are either new to Twitter or [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Career Strategy & Planning, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Career Services & Coaching, Executive Channel, Information of Interest, Job Boards & Job Hunting, Job Seeking & Social Media, Networking, Personal & Work Values, Personal Branding, Reputation Management | Leave a Comment

Do You Have a Career Transition Object? It May Just Help Career Changers …

October 19, 2011 – 11:01 am

This weekend I attended the Victorian Career Development Association of Australia mini conference.  As with any event you attend you always walk away with new knowledge and insights, which is what makes getting up early on a Saturday bearable. Louise Millar-Hoffman – a Career Coach with an environmental focus – gave a powerful presentation that [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Events, Career Services & Advice, Career Strategy & Planning, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Career Services & Coaching, Executive Channel, Executive Job Searching, Information of Interest, Redundancy & Outplacement, Six Figures News | Leave a Comment

Book Review – ‘Job Searching with Social Media (For Dummies)’

October 12, 2011 – 8:12 pm

I am not normally someone who is drawn to the “For Dummies” book series. I suspect it is because I don’t find the look of the books all that appealing and perhaps subconsciously I don’t like to think of myself as a Dummy.   However, when I was approached by the author Joshua Waldman of ‘Job [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Book Reviews, Education, Executive Job Searching, Information of Interest, Job Seeking & Social Media, Personal Branding, Reputation Management, Six Figures News | Leave a Comment

Are you being ‘romanced’ by jobs that you shouldn’t?

September 21, 2011 – 8:20 pm

As a job seeker it is likely at some stage you have been ‘romanced’ to apply for various job opportunities that were not necessarily in line with where you saw your career path going.   It is common for job seekers to become distracted, particularly when searching jobs online or being approached or headhunted about jobs. [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Events, Career Services & Advice, Career Strategy & Planning, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Career Services & Coaching, Executive Channel, Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Job Boards & Job Hunting, Personal Branding, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Six Figures News | Leave a Comment

Successful people are always working on their career. The majority of us just work! To change this read on …

September 14, 2011 – 7:52 pm

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” — John Maxwell Here are some interesting stats that may get you thinking differently about how you are approaching your career. On average we spend 44 years or 91,250 hours of our lives working On [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Career Services & Coaching, Executive Channel, Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Information of Interest, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Six Figures News | Leave a Comment

Over-qualified &/Or Over-the-hill?

September 5, 2011 – 11:19 am

It’s a common scenario. You are out of work and hunting for a new job, but keep getting told that you are overqualified for the jobs you go after. Kelly Magowan, a director of Six Figures, says it might not make sense, but recruiters are employed to find people who match the profile for a [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Career Services & Coaching, Executive Channel, Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Information of Interest, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Six Figures News | Comments (2)

For anyone at the interview stage, this is a must watch video

August 25, 2011 – 1:01 pm

Having worked in the HR, Recruitment and Careers space for many years, I am always looking for new information and insights to assist job seekers, our Six Figures members and my careers clients. Occasionally I come across gold like this 4 minute video which is a must watch for anyone who is about to interview [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Services & Advice, Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Career Services & Coaching, Executive Channel, Executive Job Searching, Executive Talent Attraction & Retention, Information of Interest, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Six Figures News | Leave a Comment

What is the Future of Australia’s Specialist Job Sites?

August 15, 2011 – 1:09 pm

In the past 12 months we have seen the major job sites, Seek, MyCareer and CareerOne focus on beefing up their generalist job ad offerings.  Fairfax put to bed The Big Chair and its Headhunter offering, while just last week Seek notified the market of its intention to fold Seek Executive into the main site. [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Events, Career Services & Advice, Job Boards & Job Hunting, Job Seeking & Social Media, Recruitment, Recruitment Agencies & Search Firms, Six Figures News | Comments (10)

Q&A with Gillian Kelly – Australia’s leading Resume Writer & Personal Brand Expert

July 13, 2011 – 10:39 am

This week  for Careers Month we interview Gillian Kelly, from Career Edge who is Australia’s leading resume writer and personal branding expert. 1. The job market has still not fully recovered with employers still exercising some caution when it comes to hiring. How do you foresee hiring over the next 12 months? The real issue for most individuals [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Career Events, Career Services & Advice, Employers & Social Media, Executive Career Services & Coaching, Executive Channel, Resume Writing, Salary & Negotiation, Six Figures News | Leave a Comment

Q&A with Career Coach & Recruiter Melissa Martin on the Australian Job Market

July 4, 2011 – 9:07 pm

This week we interview Melissa Martin from The Clarity Group who has the advantage of having a strong corporate HR background in addition to having spent many years working in both recruitment and as a career coach.  Melissa’s knowledge of the job market and what employers look for is second to none – this combined [...]

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