When jobs are hard to find just getting one seems the height of ambition, but real winners use the opening as the starting point to a fulfilling – and rewarding – career. The upward progression of the corporate winner is not a matter of luck or a question of being in the right place at
Career development should be a matter of pre-planning rather than chance. And forget the notion that career planning is something carried out once by matriculants and recent graduates. The pace of change – technological and societal – is such that career changes will occur periodically throughout your working life. The secret of success, says The
Job-Seekers put themselves through the agony of successive highs and lows because they take a frenetic rather than systematic approach to the jobs quest. Experts at The Focus Group, the Forest Town-based firm of human resource consultants to some of the country`s top employers, recommend a balanced programme of reactive and proactive job searching. Says
Framing a quality CV is the first hurdle for job-seekers… and most of them stumble horribly at it, according to The Focus Group, the Forest Town-based human resources consultancy that takes on the full spectrum of human capital management functions for some of the country’s leading employers. Says Focus Group director Gavin Sher: “Job-seekers get
First-Time job hunters can take heart. There is a way through the ‘no previous experience’ barrier. However, the breakthrough may require forward planning or short-term sacrifice and job seekers need to regard the process of job search as a job in itself. Several successful breakthrough techniques have been described by The Focus Group, the Forest
