Ten common mistakes that native English speakers make
Brush up your English language skills to improve your CV and cover letter.
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Answering selection criteria: The hidden rules
The hidden rules to help you prepare more effective selection criteria and secure that job interview.
Buyer’s Guide: Selecting a professional CV writer
Buyer’s Guide: Fourteen criteria you can use to select the best CV writer to showcase your talents, skills and achievements.
Use Plain Language in CVs
The four most important linguistic techniques that make your CV more readable to a recruiter or potential employer.
Verbal Communication Skills for Success
In a highly interactive industry such as recruitment, good communication skills are crucial to your ability to succeed. Here are some tips from an expert on how to communicate verbally at your best.
Check Your Body Language – Land That Job
Effective body language is critical to your success in a job interview. Tweak your body language to get interviewers to like you … and offer you the job!
Reframing your overseas experience
How to present your overseas experience to potential employers and recruiters and win the job you want.
Job Hunting Tips for Migrants
Job hunting tips to help migrants succeed in applications and interviews and find work in New Zealand.
Selection criteria – an overview
Selection criteria are most commonly found in Australia in recruitment for government-funded jobs, but sometimes these practices travel across the ditch, so a brief outline will help you understand what is required.
Tips for CV and LinkedIn photos
If networking over LinkedIn, a photo can be more appealing to potential business contacts, so the advice is to add a photo if you can. Here are some tips to help you get the best results.