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Career, Job Hunting, LinkedIn, Resume Writing

Start using LinkedIn the right way in 2020

May 6, 2020

We all know how powerful a tool LinkedIn has become in the last 5 years. This blog is a small guide on how LinkedIn should be used and the tools it provides to everyone — from a job seeker to a sales professional. We also explore the different premium features for all use cases. A brief introduction of LinkedIn with some stats Started in 2003 by “PayPal mafia” member — Reid Hoffman 675 million LinkedIn users, spread over 200 countries; 2 new members per second Source: https://news.linkedin.com/about-us#statistics US — biggest market (165 million users), India #2 (62 million users), China #3…

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Career, Job Hunting, LinkedIn

Leveraging your LinkedIn Profile – a step by step guide to using LinkedIn to find jobs and leads

April 17, 2020

This is one of the most descriptive and comprehensive coverage on how you can use your LinkedIn account / profile to become more successful. Whether you are a Job Seeker, an HR recruiter, a Talent Manager, a Sales Executive, a Business Professional or a Brand, this video will tell you what features LinkedIn provides to help you leverage your profile to the MAXIMUM.   From Sales Navigator, to LinkedIn Jobs, to LinkedIn Recruiter, Company Pages, LinkedIn Jobs, as well as Feed, we have covered it all. This video is self-explanatory and without a narration. We will soon publish a narrative version…

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Career, Resume Writing, Trends

Why right now is a great time to work on your Resume and Career Goals

April 1, 2020

The Corona Virus (or Covid19) Pandemic has brought the whole world to its knees. Production has stopped, industries are at a standstill, and everyone is worried and scared. But it doesn’t mean we won’t bounce back! Governments are taking precautions and locking cities down. Most educated people are socially distancing themselves and it is only a matter of time before we, as a race, defeat the virus and get back to our normal lives. This time, the lock down phase, is when most of us are at home and keeping a distance from all kinds of social distractions. It’s a…

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Career, Communication, Job Hunting, Resume Writing, Trends

Your Writing Skills can show you a career path with Numerous Options & Opportunities

March 24, 2020

 “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing” – Benjamin Franklin In schools and colleges, teachers or professors often give topics to write something – essays, journals, or paragraphs. If we are able to express our thoughts and opinions fine through the writings, we score well and sometimes we even receive an appreciation. Our writings get published in school magazines, children paper editions, etc.  As a result of these reasons, we often think of enhancing our writing skills and have a feeling that a career in writing may not be a bad choice. Writing as a Profession. Writing…

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Arts, Career, Job Hunting, Resume Writing, Trends

Love to doodle? Create a career out of it!

March 9, 2020

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” – Confucius You have started it as hobby or interest to draw something without thinking about what you are doing. You used to mess around with pencils and draw figures from your imagination. Then, why not start treating this hobby as a business tool and think of building a solid career?? Doodling Doodling is a fun way to draw beautiful and original designs with cute and child-like characters or random and abstract patterns. Doodling is a great means to engage the mind in…

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Career, Job Hunting, Resume Writing, Trends

Beautiful Handwriting? Try a career in calligraphy

March 5, 2020

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are very human way of making life more bearable.” – Kurt Vonnegut Good handwriting can create great impressions, it augments your personality and the person who is watching your writing gets stunned by how beautifully you can write. Maybe you have always received compliments about your handwriting, so why not consider those compliments seriously and think of starting a career in calligraphy?? What is Calligraphy? Calligraphy is the craft of fine handwriting, a visual art where the legibility of letters may be compromised in favour of visual extravagance. Calligraphy…

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Career, Career Switch, Interviews, Job Hunting, Trends, Work Life Balance

Design a Personal Development Plan today to move ahead in your career

December 20, 2019

A Personal Development Plan is a written account of self-reflection and improvement, which doubles up as a detailed action plan used to fulfill academic, personal, or career-based goals. A vital resource for students, young working professionals, mid-level seniors, as well as executive level professionals, it is capable of providing an objective sense of direction in taking one’s career forward in the form of steps needed to reach the eventual aim. It is thing that can be discovered as a part of most successful people’s careers as a blueprint of their success path and allows normal people to discover the trajectory…

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Career, Career Switch, Interviews, Resume Writing

Banking Careers – Writing the Perfect Resume for a Banking Job

September 1, 2019

Banks are indispensable to the national as well as internationally economy. Being the central part of the financial services industry, banks are among the leading employers within the financial field. Jobs can be found in Commercial and Retail Banking, Community Banking, Rural or Cooperative Banking, Credit Unions and Investment Banking. Indian Banking Market The Indian banking system consists of 27 public sector banks, 21 private sector banks, 49 foreign banks, 56 regional rural banks, 1,562 urban cooperative banks and 94,384 rural cooperative banks, in addition to cooperative credit institutions (FY17 data, IBEF report). With the total credit reaching USD 1.3…

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Career, Career Switch, Interviews, Job Hunting, Management Consulting, Trends, Women Careers

Five Skills you should Acquire to stay relevant in the age of Automation

July 24, 2019

Smart automation systems wading through deep pools of data, chatbots becoming more and more common, the map apps on phones leading us to our destinations. Clearly, the age of automation is here to change the landscape of the workplace. We are in the fourth industrial revolution and now there is no turning back. The world of work is changing fast and workers will have to change as well. Even though tech skills remain the most in demand, soft skills such as creativity, problem solving and critical thinking are growing in prominence to help expand the application of new technology. According…

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