Teachers: How to Construct a Winning Job Application
Given the current state of the job market, being able to stand out with your job applications for teaching positions is more important than ever; this means being able to make the most of your skills and your past experience, while getting the basics right when it comes to putting together your forms. Look at what an employer expects from you, as well as whether or not you have to produce anything extra for an application, and make sure that you specify why you’d be right for a particular school.
Getting the Basics Right
Common mistakes that can damage any job application include not taking the time to check over your application before sending it out – basic spelling and grammar mistakes can make the difference between your application being looked at in more detail, or being discarded – this applies to your CV, application form, and your cover letter. In this context, it’s always worth getting someone to double check your application before you send it.
Also, make sure that you read through a job description as carefully as possible to see what they specifically want from you – if an employer only wants a 4 page CV, don’t send them 6, for example. Moreover, ensure that you address every point listed on a job specification page, even if they don’t always apply to your situation. Keep things concise, and focus on understanding what an employer is aiming for.
Is Jabong’s Online Presence a threat to Snapdeal?
Every store that steps into online is looked upon with interest by the prospective buyer and looked upon as a prospective competitor by other online stores dealing with similar products and services. Jabong is no exception and its products and offers do create a sense of awe amidst shoppers and other online stores. Being a junior, it is indeed an achievement that it was able to rouse the interest of all concerned and let us see if it is going to live up to its initial promise to pose threat to Snapdeal, one of its many seniors.
Jabong’s Story
Jabong made its way into the online world in the year 2012. It immediately became the talk of the town with a stunning product range of over 50000. The products include apparels, home appliances, kitchen appliances, jewellery and accessories. In its first year online, the site recorded highest traffic amongst Indian online stores.
Snapdeal’s History
Snapdeal entered online in the year 2010. The online store has an exhaustive collection of products, which include apparels, mobiles, computers, cameras, books, sports items, footwear, jewellery, home appliances, kitchen appliances and a lot more.
Funding Overseas Education: Six Sources to Get the Money Together
Funding an education in UK, is not the easy thing it used to be. Gone are the days when overseas education and home education were subsidised by the state. So the student has to consider alternative funding sources for his or her trip abroad.
1: Student Loan
While the fees structure for going to university has changed, the source for money hasn’t. The student loan was always available to students prior to the education fees change. It still is, only now the amount of money lent is considerably bigger, designed (where the student is eligible) to cover all the fees associated with going on into higher education.
Studying abroad can be part of a UK based course – for example American Studies, which gives a gap year to the student in question, studying in a college in the USA. IN cases like this, the course fees paid through a student loan should cover overseas learning as well.
2: The British Council
The British Council awards a number of scholarships and support bursaries to students wishing to study abroad. To apply for funding, it is necessary to contact the British Council direct. They’ll be able to tell you whether there are any bursaries available for the overseas study you wish to undertake, and what criteria you need to satisfy in order for it to be awarded.
Best way to Search for the Most Recent PR Week Jobs of Your Choice
Really, there’s only one way to search for the most recent PR week jobs of your choice: and that’s to use the PR Week jobs search service to look for what you want.
Obviously there are ways and there are ways – so for example having a good CV is one important factor, without which you will be less likely to land the job of your choice. So the first two ways are to learn how to use the search filters, and to learn how to use your CV and your PR week jobs profile to attract the interest you need.
There are three ways to find PR week jobs directly on the site – by creating an account, uploading a CV and signing up to receive job notification via email. In this way, you can search for any roles that interest you (using the specific job type filters or the advanced search function); you can hope that your CV attracts attention in the right places; and you can also see at a glance whether new jobs have been uploaded that may fit your bill.
While your CV is important for specific roles, it is worth remembering that a general CV may not land you any role at all. In basic terms, it’s often more useful to create a specific CV for a specific role and send this directly with your application. In this way you can pick out the most relevant pieces of your skills, and highlight them as they apply to the role in question.
The problem with uploading a generalised CV is this – it tends to sound like you are quite good at everything without being outstanding at anything. The temptation is to create an all-purpose business CV suited to finding any PR Week jobs you might be interested in. This is not useful and can damage your long term prospects for success.
WordPress and SEO
WordPress started out as a blogging platform, but it’s rapidly being adopted as a popular option for a content management system. The platform has some real advantages where SEO is concerned, particularly if you’re using Professional wordpress themes that are designed for businesses.
WordPress as a platform provides critical SEO advantages:
Validated Code
Commercially available themes will generally advertise that their code has been validated. This means that it’s been checked to make sure that it conforms to World Wide Web Consortium standards and that the search engines will be able to read your content, follow your links and will regard you as a legitimate site. This is a significant advantage when you compare commercial themes to free themes, the latter sometimes not being validated or properly coded.
Scheduled Updates
Despite the recent changes to Google’s search engine filters, updating regularly still does have advantages to it. WordPress allows you to upload posts and to schedule them to post publically whenever you like, which makes it quite simple to make sure that you’re adding fresh content.
Corporate Social Responsibility an HR initiative
I would really like to thank Lisa for writing such a wonderul post and helping us gain an HR persepctive to corporate social responsbility. really work? And before I go too much further I’d like to say that even if it is proven to be less economically savvy, it’s still a better way of doing things. Anyone involved in CSR jobs,
I take my hat off to you.So let’s define our terms before we get on. What is Corporate Social Responsibility, and what are CSR jobs?Well, Corporate Social Responsibility, from hereon in referred to as CSR, is the idea that a company can and should act responsibly – towards its environment and towards all the people whom its actions affect. CSR jobs are positions Corporate Social Responsibility: does it in which qualified people try to make sure that happens. An inevitable component of the CSR idea is giving – giving away money and services in some way, usually. And of course this comes in for a lot of flak by die hard capitalists, who (not content with already half-destroying the universe) can’t stand the idea that someone can get something for nothing. The same kind of people, in other words, who don’t believe in a welfare state until they lose their jobs, break their legs and suddenly need a hospital they can no longer pay for.
Top Indian HR influencers on social media
Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) is doing a real good job in helping HR professionals network across the world. I am a member at SHRM and i regularly attend the conferences organzised by them and it really helps in networking with other HR professionals from the same field.
SHRM along with WAT Consult have come up with a report that outlines the top infulencers on social media. they have used twitter as a medium to analyze social media effectiveness of these Human resource professionals.
I am sharing the report here so that more and more people can take advantage of this analysis and use twitter as a social media tool to share knowledge and achieve better results in their profession.
Research report on top HR influencers on social media
Google drive and recruitment
Google has a habit of coming up with innovative products and services that help change the way we work. This time around it’s Google Drive. Here the innovation is about its functionality and the way in which they are integrating could storage into its other native applications.
Google drive promises to deliver much more to the users than pure synchronized online storage and it’s going to offer this amazing service at a price that is cheaper than the likes DropBox, Skydrive and icloud.
The core functionality remains could storage service that can be used to sync files across various devices. One can also view and share documents in various formats like HD videos, text files, images files etc. Using Google Drive you can primarily save and share information across multiple devices with multiple people. There is social media integration factor also integrate deep within the core offering.
HR professionals and recruiters around the world should pay close attention to this service from Google. As it will be a boon for recruiters to use cloud storage facility coupled with document management system. Google Drive has been built on its Google Document platform and it will enable user to save, manage, edit and share documents on the go and also sync the same across devices.
Google Drive features & functionalities that can be used by HR / Recruitment professionals
Research report on recruitment and social media
More than ever recruiters are leveraging the power of social media to drive their recruitment objectives. It’s become very critical for recruiters around the globe to integrate social media initiated with their conventional recruitment model. I have written an article some time ago on how to integrate social media with HR
As always there are early adopters of concepts and they generally reap the maximum benefit in the long run. I am sure that you are already using social media in one form or the other to leverage your social network for your recruitment assignments.
I came across a Bullhorn Reach research report on social recruiting and i would like to share the same here for people to get detailed analysis on different avenues that social media presents as an opportunity to enhance recruitment.
A in depth study of this report will give you clear indication on what’s working and what’s not in the social media space as far as recruitment is concerned.
I got tremendous insights from this report and i hope you do as well.
Happy Recruiting.
Click here to download the report
Crowdsourcing an important concept in online and digital marketing
In recent times a lot of online/web 2.0 companies have been using Crowdsourcing as an initiative to market their products and services online. This method is being also used extensively by companies to strengthen their brand and their online reputation.
There are a lot of companies globally taking advantage of this age old practice by taking this concept online. The reason i am writing this article is that it’s interesting to see an Indian company using crowdsourcing as a technique to go viral online. I haven’t seen many Indian companies trying their hand at “online” Crowdsourcing.
This experiment comes from Zomato.com and i would like to congratulate the team at executing this campaign.
Zomato, India’s largest online food and lifestyle guide has launched a month long campaign to crowd-source its next television commercial. Named 20 Seconds to a Million, Zomato is looking to reach out to the video making community, amateurs, professionals or anybody who owns a camera and is creative, to create a 10 or 20 second commercial.
Two best commercials from this campaign will be taken live on TV and the creators will get a cash prize worth Rs. 5 Lakhs each (1 Million in total). Click here for further details on the campaign.
This site indeed offers good information on restaurants near you and if you are a foodie like me and want the information on your mobile here’s the link to get Zomato on mobile
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