Career Coaching & Guidance
Perfect your profile
Your social media profile is only a click away from being viewed by recruiters, employers and potential future managers, writes Marc Burrage.
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Career Coaching & Guidance
Flexing forwards
When the CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, ordered employees earlier this year to work back in the office instead of telecommuting, it made headlines around the world, writes Marc Burrage.
Career Coaching & Guidance
Look beyond salary
In a recent web poll by Hays that drew responses from 318 employees, one in three respondents expected to receive a salary rise of more than 6 per cent this year, writes Marc Burrage.
Career Coaching & Guidance
Risk jobs ride high
In the first half of 2013, we saw an increase in the number of new hires at associate to vice-president level for compliance and credit risk roles, says Kirstin MacLaren.
Career Coaching & Guidance
Teamwork trumps
Raw talent will only take you so far. In today’s increasingly complex business environment, there is widespread recognition that it is team-based effort that brings competitive edge and that a motivated team working together with a clear objective can achieve astonishing results, writes Marc Burrage.
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STAR performance
Following the admission by Google’s senior vice-president of people operations that the company’s famous brainteaser interview questions didn’t work and would no longer be part of their interview process, we have seen a shift away from this style of interviewing, writes Marc Burrage.
Career Coaching & Guidance
I can help lift your career
Like many people, I stumbled into the world of recruitment; I graduated in the mid-1990’s and was looking for my first job in London with a role in sales being my goal, writes Fraser Douglas.
Career Coaching & Guidance
The personal touch
Last week, we discussed how important it is to maintain personal connections as well as your virtual networks, writes Marc Burrage.
Career Coaching & Guidance
It pays to be honest
No matter how experienced a person is at interviews or how senior they are in their current role, more often than not, everyone going into an interview has that same nagging question in the back of their head: what should I say when I’m asked about my current salary?
Career Coaching & Guidance
Get ahead at work
It is important to take responsibility for your own career development and growth, writes Marc Burrage.
Career Coaching & Guidance
Forge a flying start
With contract roles becoming a more popular option in Hong Kong, our candidates often ask us how they can make a good impression quickly in a new role, writes Marc Burrage.