Job Seeker Blog

Looking for work, a new opportunity or an interesting contract? Good luck with that. We say that because our expert recruiters at TalentWorld know you have the power to increase your luck to find employment you’ll love.

Padding your resume? You might call it an embellishment.  Or a harmless white lie. But recruiters and hiring managers everywhere, call it something else: a deal-breaker.

Procrastinating instead of getting on with job hunting? We’ve all been there!

A little thing can pack a huge punch. There’s one very small move you can make in an interview that can drastically affect the outcome.

It might seem ironic, but Hillary goes low and Donald goes high – with their speaking voices when talking to large audiences. That’s the finding of Dr. Rosario Signorello who studies how politicians change their pitch and volume to attract voters.

Is the deck stacked against older job applicants? If you’re a baby boomer looking for a job, with relevant up-to-date skills, know that you’re still in the game.

Making yourself interesting to employers is a challenge. Learn important tips for making yourself relevant to employers.

Waiting is hard to do. And we’re getting worse and worse at it. We are so used to getting results NOW that asking us to be patient is like, well, expecting us to wait for a web page to load. As if! About 32% of us will give up on a slow-loading page within just 1 to 5 seconds, according to studies.

You interview for, let’s say, a sales position. The interviewer asks, “Have you ever led a team?” You answer, ‘Well, not really.” Later you wonder, why didn’t I mention that you’d taken the lead on many department-wide initiatives.

Anyone who’s looking for work knows it can be a challenge to figure out what to write as a subject line for emails to prospective employers. After all, if no one opens your email, it doesn’t matter how great your cover letter and resume are.