Career and Jobs Tips

Once you get into the interview you need to ensure that you are able to combat your nerves and try not to appear too nervous as you will make the interview a lot harder. The interviewer will start making their own ideas of you as soon as you enter and if you enter with lots of nerves, you will be fighting against the interviewers nervous impression of you during the rest of the interview. Of course an interviewer would expect a little amount of nerves but being able to control them is what they are looking for.
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The conventional wisdom is that the best time to look for a job is when you already have a job, as you feel less pressure and are in a better negotiating position. This is a search by choice, as opposed to the more forced search.
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As the national economy plummeted downward recently, so did the seniors employment figures. It’s only natural that fear swept the land as the media hammered on the widening theme that millions of people were being stripped of their livelihoods. Senior citizens hunkered down and made every attempt to keep a low profile and protect what already belonged to them.
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According the a report released recently by the World Bank, unemployment rate in Nigeria is about 15 per cent while in the United States, the rate has surged to its highest in the last 16 years with more than 2.5 million job losses in 2008 – a situation that has not been witnessed since the end of the second world war in 1945. The phenomenon of job loss in Nigeria heightens an already awful situation which had seen many formerly enterprising industries like textile, rubber and auto closing down in incredible large numbers. By this very fact, job losses are now a common feature among the citizenry.
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Before an employment opportunity presents itself to you, it would be advisable that you have a list of your particular strengths, weaknesses, your qualities and your motivators. So where do you start putting this list together?
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