If you’ve recently arrived, here’s how to get a job in Australia

by Karalyn on September 2, 2010

People always ask me “how do I find a job without local experience?” followed by “how do I get local experience if nobody will offer me a job?” It can be tough. For some professions local experience is not such a big issue. IT springs to mind. But for everyone else, it helps if you are creative, both in the way you think about your skills and the way you hunt for a job. Like Naishadh Gadani. He’s a great example of how you can turn adversity to your advantage. He turned his skills in hunting for a job, into a business where he helps other people hunt for jobs. So if you’re struggling with the dilemma facing most new arrivals, read on…..

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What is Personal Branding?

by Karalyn on August 18, 2010

You might have heard about personal branding, it is a much hyped concept that is all over the web at the moment. How does it affect us normal folks and what can we do to make the most of personal branding? Jorgen Sundberg, aka The Undercover Recruiter, will briefly explain what it is, what you should be doing and what you can expect from it.

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6 reasons your recruitment consultant doesn’t give you feedback

August 17, 2010

This week Recruiter Daily warned recruiters about the dangers of giving feedback, and how recruitment consultants should phrase that feedback to avoid being sued. The writer, an Employment Lawyer, stressed the importance of making that feedback competency based. That’s sound advice, but one of the biggest complaints my job seeking clients make about recruitment consultants is that they actually never hear back from consultants sometimes even after they have been for an interview. So they actually receive no feedback, good, bad or otherwise. There are reasons for this, beyond the consultant’s fear of being sued, read here to find out more….

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How to make the most of a LinkedIn Group

August 15, 2010

Last week I wrote a post on why I “think” I regret becoming an open networker on LinkedIn. I had an enormous response. So thank you everyone for the feedback and support. The thing I love about social media is how responsive people are if you ask for help. Jason Ball from Good People Japan, a networking group, kindly wrote a detailed comment about how he manages his LinkedIn activity and his group. It has such great tips for anyone wanting to use LinkedIn effectively, I thought I’d feature it. Essentially Jason has used his LinkedIn group as a platform for meeting offline. Here’s how he did it…..

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Tricky job interview questions you’d better have an answer for….

August 13, 2010

According to Ross Clennett, trainer to the recruitment industry, a good interviewer should not ask you questions about your strengths and weaknesses. Instead they should ask more pointed interview questions where you, on the other side of the table, need to provide evidence. Here’s his list of ineffective job interview questions and suggested alternatives. The alternatives are tricky. Consider yourself warned.

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Pilot interview training and preparation

August 11, 2010

I’ve noticed a lot of interest in my posts for interview training and preparation for pilots. A large chunk of the airline interviews are now behavioural style, where you’re asked to present specific examples. These interviews are daunting, particularly if you haven’t been in the corporate world. If you’re a pilot facing an airline interview for the first time, part of your preparation along with your “sim” practice, should include interview training. Read these pilot interview preparation and training tips for starters…

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How to network to get a graduate job

August 9, 2010

One of the questions I get asked a lot is “how do I get a graduate job?” I’d always suggest that people push themselves and go along to a graduate careers day. Most of the large graduate employers have stands. They put their recruiters and the shiny new graduates of their graduate programs in front of their stands and set the talk button. I mistakenly thought you could use these fairs for research purposes to get the low down on the company and what to expect from the graduate program. But there’s more to it than that.

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LinkedIn tips – why I “think” I regret becoming an open networker

August 8, 2010

One of the decisions I made early on in online networking was to become an “open networker” on LinkedIn. For those of you who don’t use LinkedIn, becoming an open networker is where you join a group and are added to a list of people who are open to connecting up with people. Other networkers can use this list to make contact with you. Three years on after becoming an open networker I have thousands of connections. Now I kind of regret it.

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Don’t picture your interviewer naked

July 29, 2010

If you’re really nervous about an interview, chances are you’ll have heard the advice: “just picture the interviewer naked.” I’m not sure where this gem comes from, but it’s not very sound advice. If you do go down that path, at best you’ll be slightly distracted. At worst you’ll, ummm….let’s just leave it there.

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Five weird ways people have found jobs

July 23, 2010

I write a lot on how to find a job. I talk a lot on how to find a job. I’ve helped a lot of people find jobs. Over the past five years I’ve answered thousands of emails to CareerOne’s “Ask Kate” from people desperate to find a job. Yet when a friend of mine, James Evangelidis, interviewed me for his blog and asked me: “what’s the the number one thing people should do to to find a job if they have no experience?” I had to stop for a minute. Then I didn’t say “get your resume in order.”

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What to expect from a second grilling, sorry I meant interview.

July 20, 2010

I had an interesting email today. My emailer wanted to know what she could expect from a second interview. She had a first interview with her potential direct manager. The interview was reasonably casual and covered questions around why she wanted the role, the skills she could bring, her salary expectations and what the role involved. She was then invited in to a second interview with a large panel. She was worried about going over old ground with the first interviewer who was going to be on the panel. So what could she expect from a second interview? My answer was this:

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Gone in seven seconds – the resume review

July 14, 2010

I really liked this article from Brad Remillard at Impact Hiring. Here he is really honest about how he, as a recruiter, reviews a resume. He says he doesn’t give a resume in 20 seconds to make an impact. He actually reviews an entire resume in 20 seconds. He gives you and your resume 5 – 7 seconds to pass the first cull. Those numbers again. That’s 5 -7 seconds – per resume – to make an impact. Twenty seconds for a full review.

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