Employment Help Centre

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	A New Direction There's a first time for everything. Our first interview. Our first job. And at some point... our first career change. The Employment Help Centre is now no exception. For the first time, we ...
	Are You Following Your Calling? "How did you get started in your career?" It is as interesting a question as asking a married couple how they met. Start by asking yourself. Did things just happen to you, or did you follow a ...
	Be Serious About Your Job Search The other day a frustrated employer came to tell me his troubles. He told me a story, which I had heard many times before. This employer runs a popular retail store in a shopping centre. Recently, ...
	Can You Judge a Book by its Cover? The correct answer to this question is probably that you can tell a book by its cover in nine cases out of ten! You might give it a second glance and flip through it to look at the index, the ...
	Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures We've all done it. Well at least most have. But now it's becoming more prevalent than ever. What were usually small embellishments to sound more professional and sell yourself a little stronger ...
	Fear and Anxiety When an employer asks you for an interview, the first response is happiness - and then the fear and anxiety set in. If left unchecked sometimes the fear and anxiety can grow to the point that they ...
	Going Back To School Organize Yourself: Find the schedule that works for you and stick with it. Staying on track is perhaps the most important habit of an adult learner. Organize Your Space: Try to keep your work area ...
	Handling Rejection Life has conditioned us to look for applause. Warm fuzzies feel better than cold pricklies. One of the most difficult aspects of looking for work is the ongoing handling of rejection. Most of us are ...
	Job Fairs It seems that every week in the paper, there are ads promoting job fairs. If you haven't attended a job fair, a good one can be job seeker's dream - a big room filled with employers who are hiring, ...
	Job Fairs Aren't for Sissies 10 Tips to Improve Your Chances There is more competition in the job market than there was a few years ago, so it pays to get out there. Attending a job fair beats sitting at home waiting ...
	Leaving a Job In my dad's day, people stayed with one company from the start of their working lives until they retired. It's different now: people will changes jobs - and careers - several times. It's important to ...
	Negative Issues? We all have something in our background or work history that we think will make an employer reluctant to hire us. Some issues, such as having been fired, being out of work for a long period of time, ...
	Out Of Work For Over A Year? How To Bounce Back It happens to the best of us. You hit a bump in the rocky road of your career and find yourself out of work for longer than you'd like. Being out of work for an extended period of time does more ...
	The 'Bad' Interview There are many resources available to guide job seekers through different types of interviews - behavioural interviews, panel interviews, group interviews, "stress" interviews - but not much advice ...
	The 'Thrill' of the Job Hunt Having been laid off from my job of 11 years, I returned to school for retraining. After months of "macros" and "cookies," all that remained to qualify for my diploma was to type ...
	The Icebreaker I read an interesting article the other day. It brought me back to an interview I once had where the employer told me that the receptionist was a key part of her evaluation. So if you think you've ...
	The Job Market Is Tough... For Youth Too. The job market is tough. Real tough. And now teens are being subjected to it as well. Lest we forget the days that summer employment was as guaranteed as a sunny weekend in July. Suddenly nothing ...
	The Most Important Resume Tip You Will Ever Get The more and more resumes I see, the worse they become. Maybe it's just me but the purpose of a resume is supposed to separate you from the pack. So with that in mind, I keep thinking to myself, ...
	This Looking for Work Bites I've been looking for work for a couple of months now. Holy cow, I've never had such a hard time finding a job before. I've even started using all the new fandangled ways of approaching employers. ...
	Unemployed Need Not Apply So I was reading an article from CNNMoney recently that stated the unemployed were no longer considered for jobs - or at least placed on the backburner. Isn't this the last thing the economy ...
	What's the number one thing people are selling these days? Themselves. With the economic climate and high unemployment rates, many of us are looking for work. This means high competition and therefore, less likelihood of attaining a ...
	Who's Got the Funk? If you've lost your job and find yourself in a funk - much like breaking up from a long-term relationship - you'll actually realize the two are quite similar. We've all read many tips on how to ...