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Create Your Resume Cloud
A great way of distinguishing yourself is by using a resume cloud. Clouds in general are very trendy at the moment, especially after yesterday’s announcement of Apple’s iCloud. Your very personal cloud quickly highlights the areas were you have been most active in a very creative and more or less unique way. Depending on the company that you’re applying for it might be a good …
The Perfect Job, Part IV
Some people find talking very easy. In interviews you usually talk to one person only, although some companies also conduct panel interviews, like a big consumer goods company does. With competency-based questions your past behavior can be assessed; yet, this approach assumes that your past behavior is the best predictor of your future behavior. It also assumes that you are a bad liar and that …
The Perfect Job, Part III
The third part of the perfect job series, talks about application procedures at companies and a few tricks on how to crack them. As I said earlier, the hardest step is to pass the CV selection process. By picking a job that fits your profile, you can greatly increase your chances (which is rather obvious). Companies usually have multiple stages in their application process, ranging …
The Perfect Job, Part II
This second part of finding your perfect job looks at what positions it makes sense to apply for and what abilities companies ask for. Not all companies have similar recruiting procedures. Some demand very generalist capabilities while others require highly specialist skills. During my application process I also looked into many jobs that I didn’t apply for in the end, because I ultimately thought it …
The Perfect Job, Part I
A graduate’s most urgent target is finding a job; it is after all the reason of having endured four or more years of intensive studies. A few weeks ago I finally accepted a job offer at Schindler, the global number one in escalators and number two in elevators, which I believe to be my perfect starting position into working life. Although my post-graduation job search …