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Check-list for doing a winning interview

June 2010

You can do a winning interview by being prepared for the full spectrum of questions that may be presented at a job interview. Take time to look at some of the following questions and think about how you would answer them:

   1. Tell me about yourself.
   2. Tell me about your experience.
   3. What is your most important accomplishment to date?
   4. How would you describe your ideal job?
   5. Why did you choose this career?
   6. When did you decide on this career?
   7. What goals do you have in your career?
   8. How do you plan to achieve these goals?
   9. How do you personally define success?
10. Describe a situation in which you were successful.
11. What do you think it takes to be successful in this career?
12. What accomplishments have given you the most satisfaction in your life?
13. If you had to live your life over again, what one thing would you change?
14. Would you rather work with information or with people?
15. Are you a team player?
16. What motivates you?
17. Why should I hire you?
18. Are you a goal-oriented person?
19. Tell me about some of your recent goals and what you did to achieve them.
20. What are your short-term goals?
21. What is your long-range objective?
22. What do you see yourself doing five years from now?
23. Where do you want to become ten years from now?
24. Do you handle conflict well?
25. Have you ever had a conflict with a boss or professor? How did you resolve it?
26. What major problem have you had to deal with recently?
27. Do you handle pressure well?
28. What is your greatest strength?
29. What is your greatest weakness?
30. If I were to ask one of your professors (or a boss) to describe you, what would he or she say?
31. Why did you choose to attend your college?
32. What changes would you make at your college?
33. How has your education prepared you for your career?
34. What were your favorite classes? Why?
35. Do you enjoy doing independent research?
36. Who were your favorite professors? Why?
37. Why is your GPA (grade point aveage) not higher?
38. Do you have any plans for further education?
39. How much training do you think you’ll need to become a productive employee?
40. What qualities do you feel a successful manager should have?
41. Why do you want to work in the _____ industry?
42. What do you know about our company?
43. Why are you interested in our company?
44. Do you have any location preferences?
45. How familiar are you with the community that we’re located in?
46. Are you willing to relocate? In the future?
47. Are you willing to travel? How much?
48. Is money important to you?
49. How much money do you need to make to be happy?
50. What kind of salary are you looking for?

Don’t just read these questions—practice and rehearse the answers. Don’t let the employer interview be the first time you actually formulate an answer in spoken words. It is not enough to think about them in your head—practice! Sit down with a friend, partner, or your roommate (an especially effective critic, given the amount of preparation to date) and go through all of the questions. If you have not yet completed a mock interview, do it now. Make the most of every single interview opportunity by being fully prepared!

HOT Tips for Job Searching

April 2010

Congratulations, you've graduated!

Job searching during a recession can be a daunting task, so make sure you diversify your tools to include a variety of sources. Maintaining a positive outlook, even if it seems like you’ve run out of options, is also paramount.

Here are eight tips from job search experts that can help guide you in your search.

1. Stay organized. Whether you use software, a filing system, or a pen and paper, make sure you document every lead and job you have applied for, including if you received a response or not and any relevant dates or contact info. This is especially important in case you are surprised with a phone call from a recruiter responding to your application. A quick thumb-through your files or a few mouse clicks can pull up the appropriate job advertisement so that you’re not left fumbling for answers.

2. Clean up your image. Now that you are a professional job seeker, you should maintain a squeaky clean image, both online and offline. Dress professionally for interviews and always maintain a neat appearance. You never know who you may meet. Comb through your social profiles online and un-tag or remove any inappropriate photos. Censor your Facebook wall to keep unflattering comments or curse words away from your image. Make sure your Twitter feed is suitable for perusal, and that your LinkedIn profile is current. Record a brief, appropriate message on your phone and create a suitable email address dedicated to your job search and separate from your personal email.

3. Talk to alumni. Many college grads have said that their best referrals came from alumni. Check your College networks often to find fresh contacts and keep applying for jobs at companies who tend to hire your alma mater. Ask questions about how they got their foot in the door, what further education may be needed, and if they can meet up for coffee sometime. Remember, you’ve already got a great opening.

4. Volunteer. If there are no jobs open at the company of your choice, ask them if there are volunteer opportunities or projects that you could tackle until something opens up. Volunteering in your community can also open doors and fill in gaps in your resume during times when you are unemployed. Volunteering is also an excellent way to stay motivated and positive about your job search.
5. Blog about your job search. Even if there is only one person reading, blogging can be cathartic, especially if you are feeling frustrated with the lack of prospects. There are several free blogging platforms available, including WordPress and Blogger. Grab a laptop and start cataloguing your job search journey.

6. Only apply for jobs that you are qualified for. If you see come across a senior position at a company you are dying to work at, resist the urge to immediately apply. Set up alerts on job boards until something opens up that is in your realm of experience. Recruiters have enough resumes to wade through, and about 75% of those cv's come from unqualified candidates. Keep your cv out of the reject pile.

7. Be everywhere. It’s simply not enough anymore to apply for a handful of jobs on Monster and call it a day. Because of their ability to precisely target candidates, niche jobs boards are quickly becoming the favorite for both employers and job seekers. Dig deep into your search engines to find job boards that specialize in the field you are interested in. Search by industry, region, or salary – whatever is most important to you. But make sure you not only utilize job boards, but also social media, alumni, personal referrals, networking events, and conferences to broaden your job search capabilities.

8. Stay motivated. Easier said than done, right? The key to staying motivated is to tapping into your support system for encouragement and advice. Be honest and open with family members and friends if you are feeling depressed about not getting a job. Find other job seekers on social networks and exchange words of support. Take breaks when you feel you’ve had enough, and if you can, reward yourself. Exercise, eat nutritious food, and try to limit your nights out on the town. Remember that being a job seeker is a full time job, and one of the hardest jobs you’ll ever have, so it’s important to stay healthy and alert.

This article was published by Vanessa Dennis on February 12, 2010 article Top 8 Job Search Tips for College Grads on www.aftercollege.com

Preparing for an interview by TESTING yourself on these QUESTIONS

April 2010

Can Facebook can come back to haunt you?

January 2010

70% of hiring managers say they reject job applicants because of info they find online

The way we are perceived has never been more important as Big Brother casts its eerie eye over the unwitting jobseeker

If there was ever a doubt that those party pictures on Facebook can come back to haunt you, take a look at this statistic: 70 percent of hiring managers say they've decided not to hire an applicant because of information they've found online.

The data come from a survey of 1,200 human relations managers and consumers in the United States, Britain, Germany and France. Microsoft commissioned it last November.

Those surveyed said they almost all go online to research candidates to hire and think they are justified in doing so. Conversely, only 7 percent of consumers think recruiters check out potential candidates online in considering hiring decisions.

Recruiters said they search for information about candidates through search engines, on social networking sites, personal Web sites and blogs, gaming sites, online classified sites and through professional background checkers.

Simon Lewis, editor at digital recruitment advertiser, Only Marketing Jobs, comments: "It continues to astound me just how few jobseekers are aware of their personal brands. In an era when finding a job is as much about driving people to your profile as it is applying for jobs directly, where's the sense in promoting the wrong message about you through inappropriate pictures and misleading personal details? It's crazy. The Big Brother theory wasn't vaulted by Mr Orwell. And whilst describing employers as being totalitarianism might be stretching the point, it should be conceded that - rightly or wrongly - employee/applicant surveillance is now much, much more than a 1984 theory."

What kind of information prompts hiring mangers to reject a candidate?

– 58 percent say data on lifestyle

– 56 percent say inappropriate written text

– 55 percent say inappropriate photos

The report was released on International Privacy Day, which in Washington will be marked with a conference at the Newseum. Reputation Defender and privacy groups will discuss how legislators and regulators are responding to a growing push to address online privacy.

What do you think about employers choosing who to interview based on their social behaviour?

Are employers wrong to do this or is the responsibility of the jobseeker to ensure their online profiles match their professional ambitions?

Original source: Cecilia Kang | The Washington Post

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.....

January 2010

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college.But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Source Stanford Report June 2005

CVizz.com is changing for a new era

August 2009 We are working on a whole new approach to helping Graduates find work which is coming online for the new academic year 2009! Watch this space for updates.

Fr. Ted And The Art of Being Employable

March 2009

The best way to make yourself employable after university is to keep yourself busily employed while you are still there. That doesn't mean you have to have a paid job, although it helps, since employers always feel happier if they are taking a trusted employee away from somebody else. But you do need to spend every waking hour doing stuff.

Don't worry if you don't have that many waking hours. Just bear in mind that you can't put "sleeping" down in the part of your CV that says "Hobbies and interests". You can put almost anything else there, though, and the more eye-catching the better, so long as it involves lots of activity.

A leading light in the Father Ted appreciation society? Fine, but only if you did more than watch the DVD a couple of times. You'll need to prove you organised several events, such as a trip to Craggy island where it was filmed (contact with other cultures goes down well), as well as being able to weigh up the pros and cons of Dermot Morgan's wardrobe, especially the pop band outfit when they did the Eurovision Entry. A title, such as society president, always helps, too. Just don't make a turkey out of it.

So you not only need to do stuff, you need to know how what you do increases your employment value - and provide the proof. This means keeping records of what you have done and thinking about the skills you have developed. Jot down any achievements that demonstrate your flexibility, leadership and team-working skills so that you can pull them out for a CV, interview or impromptu chat with someone's well-placed parent. And always ask for references from people who have witnessed your brilliance.

To do all this, you need to get organised early. Start identifying possible employment avenues as soon as you get to university, and find out as much as you can about what you will need to do to go down them. It can be useful to identify role models, and, if possible, a mentor. In fact, network generally. The more people you know, the more employment openings you will have later on, and the more you will be able to boast about your contacts to others.

Next, you need to decide what activities to adopt. Employers like people who have done volunteer work because it suggests they are interested in more than money. You will also score points if you've done work experience or part-time work because this shows you know the basics of being employed, such as turning up every morning, knowing what a water cooler is, and going home again.

Meanwhile, don't forget to keep up with studying. Employers find it reassuring if you do actually get a degree. They also like it if you can read and write, and do sums. It is even better if you can offer a special skill. IT skills go down well; trapeze artistry can be too specialised.

Employers also want to know that if they do employ you, the rest of their workers won't hate you. So, develop communication skills. Practise being cheerful. Use deodorant.

Don't forget that the more employable you make yourself, the less you'll have to worry about impressing your employers once you actually land a job.

Cvizz adaptation of an article by Harriet Swain, The Guardian, March 3rd 2009.

Shampoo for doom & gloomly hair

March 2009

Ok so we're in a recession, you've worked hard, studied well and now there are no cushy graduate jobs.

Welcome to Ireland 2009.

John Lennon once said "life is what's really going on while you're busy making other plans"

So it didn't go according to plan....the student loan is still outstanding and the folks are really not pleased because their plans too are affected by your plans, or rather your change of plans.....and your change of circumstances means that you are still depending on their support. What a dilema.

Let's just get over it and move on. Here at CVizz we have decided to run a few atricles, starting this month, to help you to look on the positive side and to use your resources to get out of the doom and gloom which is consuming our island.

We will present useful, helpful, supportative but most of all realistic ways by which you can start to take control of the situation which has been thrust upon you, mostly by your parents' generation, so don't feel too bad about your new circumstances.....just remember to turn the extra lights off and not to override the gas timer when you feel a chill, put on an extra sweater....oh and easy on the calls to your friend's mobile phones.....that way you will kep the peace while you figure out your way out of this dilema....

God I hate that fog of doom and gloom, takes ages to wash it out of your hair......

First article coming up.....with our compliments.

Graduate Jobs 2009 - what Graduates really want

January 2009

What are the top characteristics that Graduates seek from employers?

Philip Gardner of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute and Georgia Chao of the Eli Broad School of Business at Michigan State University collaborated on a white paper, "Important Characteristics of Early Career Jobs," in an effort to determine what today's young entry-level job seekers really want when they conduct their job searches. Because the job market is so competitive, employers have to be able to offer more than an enticing salary. Instead, Gardner and Chao suggest, offering young candidates strategic presentations of the companies they represent might prove more effective with this generation than "throwing money at them."

A survey of more than 9,000 young men and women between the ages of 18 and 25 found that the things young job seekers found most important were fairly consistent, regardless of ethnicity, gender or academic major. The overall results were as follows:

   1. Interesting and engaging work                     88%
   2. Good benefits - including health insurance         84%
   3. Secure job                                                      82%
   4. Opportunities for promotion                              81%
   5. Opportunities to learn new skills                       77%
   6. Location                                                         63%

The study broke the results down into comparisons between genders, among races, major courses of study, and socioeconomic background. What they found was that Caucasians tended to worry less about job security than did minorities, particularly African-Americans who ranked flexibility and job security as very important. Asian-Americans ranked working for a prestigious company high on their lists. They also discovered that men ranked "chance for promotion" higher than job security or good benefits. The opposite was true for women, ranking good benefits and job security second and third, respectively, with "chance for promotion" fourth.

The survey participants' majors were Business, Engineering, Communications, Health, Computer Science, Health, Physical/Bioscience, Liberal Arts, and "Undecided." Interesting work, benefits and security were among the top 5 concerns for all majors. Based on the findings of this study, employers who can offer top entry level job candidates work environments that are mentally stimulating stand a better chance of hiring those candidates than employers who can't.

The survey went into even deeper detail with breakdowns of socioeconomic backgrounds and age as factors determining the importance of geographic location, travel, promotions, and many other considerations. Two things stood out. Regardless of age, interesting work once again topped the list of incentives that participants found most important, and regardless of socioeconomic background, job security took precedence of working for a prestigious company as a possible inducement.

Finally, Gardner and Chao compared what young job seekers said were the most important job characteristics with what recruiters thought were most important. Interestingly, recruiters ranked "chance for promotion" and "opportunity to learn new skills" higher than good benefits and job security, which were the second and third most important characteristics, respectively, on the young adults' list.

Gardner and Chao suggest the best ways to recruit and retain young adult candidates are:

1. Promote and manage interesting work projects for new hires that maximize the value these people bringto the organization.
2. Recognize that subjective factors may play a more dominant role in a young adult's decision to work for a company than salary. Income is important; yet the restrictive range of starting salaries shifts the decision to less objective characteristics, such as vacation, location, and opportunities.
3. Be aware that benefits and job security are salient job features that employers need to focus on early in the recruiting process. Benefits, a central concern for parents, will be a deciding factor for many in the choice of a first job.
4. In dealing with men and women, realize that there are subtle differences in what they are seeking. Men will respond to salary discussions and are less restrictive in the locations they will consider; women are more focused on job security, benefits, and location.
5. Understand that socioeconomic status enters significantly into the job decision. Young adults from families with low income are concerned about the level of income they receive, the prestige of the company they join, and the flexibility of the position. Young adults from high income families are also interested in high income and company prestige. These ends of the income scale are operating from very different perspectives and need to be approached differently during the recruiting process.

Source

Most Recession-Proof Jobs & Professions

December 2008

The Top 25 Most Recession-Proof U.S. Jobs report reveals many changes in employers' hiring priorities. The rankings reflect the jobs, classified by specific professions, that are in greatest demand by employers and recruiters, who use Jobfox to search for new or replacement workers.

The Top 5 Jobs are:
1.Sales Representative/Business Development 2.Account/Customer Support 3.Accounting Staff 4.Counseling/Social Work and 5.Software Design/Development.

Five New Professions made the Top 25: 1.Medical Administrative Services 2.IT Security 3.Higher Education (Faculty) 4.Product Management and 5.Human Resource Generalist.

Jobs falling out of the Top 25: 1.Database Administration 2.Advertising (Online and Offline) 3.Testing/Quality Assurance 4.Business Analysis (Research) and 5.Business Analysis (Software Implementation)

Professions with the biggest moves up: Technology Executive and Counseling/Social Work. Biggest downward movers: Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering.

Personal Branding - Visibility Creates Opportunity

October 2008

You've heard of big brand names like Apple, Reebok, and Coca-Cola. But have you ever thought about your personal brand? That is, the impression that you're giving recruiters, colleagues, and other people that you interact with, both in personal and professional settings. According to personal branding expert Dan Schawbel, "the goal... is to be recruited based on your brand, not applying for jobs."Schawbel knows the power of personal branding first-hand.

So, how can personal branding help you land a job?

Watch out for CVizz at the Graduate Career Fairs this Autumn

September 2008

Cvizz, Ireland's 1st dedicated graduate CV database service will be presenting information and support at the following careers fairs:

Tuesday 7th October, Cork Institure of Technology
Wednesday 8th October, Institute of Technology, Tralee
Thursday 10th October, UCD O'Reilly Hall
Tuesday 14th October, Graduate Careers Fair, R.D.S. Ballsbridge
Monday 20th October, Letterkenny Institute of Technology
Wednesday 29th October, NUI Galway
Thursday 30th October, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
Wednesday 5th November, Carlow Institute of Technology
Thursday 13th November, Athlone Institute of Technology

Technicolour glory: The rise of the video CV

May 2008

Traditional CVs may be full of useful information, but their restrictive format allows little in the way of personality to shine through. The video CV looks set to change all that…

Read the full article on Loadszjobs.ie