Are you a small business owner seeking to update your marketing strategy to get more clients? Or perhaps a wannabe entrepreneur, planning to set up a business and looking for tips on how to optimise your marketing efforts to build an easily-recognisable brand? Then you have come to the right place. Here are five tips for ...
New Year – New CV – New Job. Tips on how to make your CV stand out in 2015
You had a fun and restful festive season but now the New Year has begun and you have made your New Year resolutions. And one of them is to find a new and exciting job. Well, with a new recruitment season starting in January and a variety of new jobs advertised, you have a good ...
Почему вам не следует претендовать на работу онлайн? 3 основные причины
Многие страждущие найти работу прибегают, по их мнению, к самому экономному, эффективному, быстрому и ультра-современному методу заявить нанимателю о своем творческо-трудовом потенциале и страстном желании получить работу посредством заполнения анкет онлайн. Правда потом наступают разочарование и недоумение, почему на затраченные ими недюжинные усилия на составление сопроводительного пакета документов, они либо получают неадекватный ответ в виде ...
Have you optimised your job search? An essential checklist
In this post, we equip you with a list of the key things you should think about to assess whether your current job search strategy is as effective as it could be. Without further ado, here it is: Have you made sure that your personal branding is up to date and as clear as possible? Just ...
Work in investment banking: an addiction or just a source of good income?
An account of an investment banker: I am a returning investment banker; some would say I never got my fix in the first round and hence came back for more. Others mock me saying that I am a glutton for punishment. “You didn’t like banking in the US, you didn’t like it in Singapore… the odds ...
Why should I not apply for positions online? 3 main reasons
Many people who contact me complain that they have completed a lot of applications online but have not heard back, or at best they’ve received a standardised rejection email . Surely all this effort must pay off at some point, they feel. All those carefully tailored CVs and Cover Letters and application forms – where ...
Why is December a good time to search for a job?
At this time of year, job seekers might be tempted to think “I have applied to lots of places during the autumn and I can now relax for a while as nothing happens in December. But this is a common fallacy of our complicated job seeking reality. The truth is that nowadays companies recruit towards the ...
3 reasons to employ informational interviews in your job search
So you have applied to all your target companies online and taken a lot of time and effort just to fill in those lengthy application forms (not to speak about tailoring your CV and Cover Letter to each position). And you have woken up every morning wondering if today is going to be the day ...
Key Account Management: Three core principles
On 25th November I delivered an online seminar for Warwick Business School on Key Account Management (KAM), which is a very successful framework for building strong and lucrative relationships with key clients. There are three main principles of key account management that sales and marketing professionals in large companies, as well as entrepreneurs and the ...
What would you advise to all those seeking a career in banking today? Interview with Anna Saprykina
Today we are talking to Anna Saprykina, founder and director of Body Silk - a Central London clinic that specialises in aesthetic treatments. You worked in banking for a while before you set up your own company. What did you enjoy the most and the least about it? I worked in commercial banking (trade finance secured corporate lending). What did ...
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