If you’ve applied for 50 jobs and had no interviews, I wouldn’t tell you to apply for another 50. I’d stop. Not permanently. I’m not suggesting you dramatically close LinkedIn, light a candle and wait for the universe to send…
Most employers aren’t going to tell you why they rejected your CV. You’ll either hear nothing at all or get an automated email thanking you for your interest before telling you they’ve decided to pursue candidates whose experience more closely…
If you’re applying for jobs you know you could do and still not getting interviews, it’s very easy to assume the problem is the job market. Sometimes it is. There are jobs attracting hundreds of applications, employers can afford to…
STAR is probably the most common piece of interview advice in existence. If you have ever Googled how to answer a competency-based interview question, you will have been told to structure your answer using Situation, Task, Action and Result. It…
If a recruiter asks you to jump on a quick call about a job, it’s very easy to treat it as the bit before the real interview. It’s only 20 or 30 minutes. The recruiter is usually pretty friendly. They might tell…
I spent about 45 minutes trying to work something out the other day. I Googled it, asked both ChatGPT and Claude, tried a couple of different things, went back through something I’d done previously to see if I could figure…
If you tell me you’ve applied for 100 jobs and haven’t got one, I still don’t really know what your job-search problem is. I know you’ve applied for a lot of jobs. That’s about it. I don’t know whether you’ve…
For years, there was something about the way I worked that I didn’t really understand. I could start the day feeling motivated, focused and ready to get loads done. Then I’d have a few meetings, a load of conversations, a…
Sometimes it might be, but more often than not it isn’t. Now, I’m not for a second going to pretend that ageism in hiring doesn’t exist, because it absolutely does. I’ve worked in recruitment for more than 20 years and…
A few years ago, I was hiring for a vacancy in my own team, so I was both the recruiter and the hiring manager. I got a load of CVs in. Some looked really good on paper, some just looked…
