32 Useful job search tips and strategies

32 Useful job search tips and strategies

Job searching can be overwhelming and disheartening. From creating a great resume, searching through hundreds of listings, tailoring job applications, to receiving rejection letters (if you get a response at all) and finally getting an interview. We can certainly...

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How to write a great cover letter

How to write a great cover letter

No one likes the obligatory cover letter rigmarole, probably none more than the employers who read these words sometimes hundreds of times just for a single opening. Applicants and employers alike generally aren’t too fond of the usual cover letter snooze-fest....

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How to Explain an Employment Gap in Your Resume

How to Explain an Employment Gap in Your Resume

If you have an employment gap, it can cause a lot of stress and anxiety when writing your resume. Many people believe that an employment gap will be a negative to an employer and take you out of the running, but it is generally how you tackle the employment gap in...

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How to Get Your Employer to Allow you to Work From Home

How to Get Your Employer to Allow you to Work From Home

It’s a tense moment when you ask the question about working from home. You worry your boss or colleagues won’t take you seriously; that they will suspect you are looking for an excuse to slack off. You wonder whether it’s too good to be true; if all those people who...

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Tips for Going Back to Work After Maternity Leave

Tips for Going Back to Work After Maternity Leave

Maternity leave - blink and you might miss it. With everything that goes on in the first months of having a new baby your maternity leave can sometimes feel extremely short. Most mums have mixed feelings when your leave is coming to an end and you are eyeing your...

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Interview Tips for Mums Returning to Work

Interview Tips for Mums Returning to Work

A job search is almost always a formidable task - whether you are starting a career, looking for further advancement or returning to work after children. We all do it at one point or another - some of us seems to find it much easier than others. Once you've sorted out...

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Resume Tips for Return to Work Mums

Resume Tips for Return to Work Mums

Whether you’re looking to kick start your career full steam ahead or find a less demanding role, your resume is the all-powerful document that gets you that initial meeting. The first trick is to get past the skim read, so that recruiters will take a second, more in...

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How to Make Your Resume Stand Out For Remote Careers

How to Make Your Resume Stand Out For Remote Careers

For any mums with work at home jobs (first, kudos to you for being at the frontier of the global remote work culture!), you are painfully well-aware of the unique challenges to building a remote career path. While it is becoming increasingly accepted, especially in a...

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Tips for finding flexible jobs for mums

Tips for finding flexible jobs for mums

Many mums find that re-entering the workforce can be a stressful thought. Balancing family, finances and your time can require some creative thinking. But don’t be discouraged. There is a job that requires your skills and experience, which can be done in your own...

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