5 Financial Resolutions for 2017
1. Know your cash flow It is important to know how much you earn and how much you spend monthly. Tracking your cash flow becomes… Read More »5 Financial Resolutions for 2017
1. Know your cash flow It is important to know how much you earn and how much you spend monthly. Tracking your cash flow becomes… Read More »5 Financial Resolutions for 2017
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The average employer will spend no longer than 8 seconds looking at a CV, this means you have 8 seconds to grab their attention!
We have complied our 8 top hints on how to get yourself to the top of the pile.
With such a large number of applicants applying to job openings, it can prove difficult to grab the attention of a recruiter. With the average recruiter spending only 8 seconds on each CV, you need to give them a reason to look closer.
The capabilities of technology are growing at an unmeasurable rate. It is predicted that by 2020 most skilled professionals career paths with be disrupted by smart machine technology. These technologies are paving the way for automation to replace knowledgeable workers who once performed the role, including making executive decisions.
This can often be the case in your career or job occupation that isn’t satisfying your needs. Like the simmering frog you stay where you are, telling yourself things will improve when you know they won’t.
The Hierarchy of Needs was created by Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist, who argued that the psychological health was dependent on fulfilling the needs of the priority. Maslow argued that individuals need to satisfy basic needs such as safety and security in order to then realise their own personal growth and development. The needs in Maslow’s theory are, in order:
The low number of new advisers in the profession continues to fall as more baby-boomer advisers retire each year. The industry saw its sixth consecutive year of decline in 2015, to around 23,900 advisers, from a peak of 27,100 in 2009, according to APFA.
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Maintaining work life balance is not only important for your personal health and relationships, but it can also improve the efficiency of your work performance.
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What got me thinking about all this was a deluge of complaints from UK advisers about the difficulty of getting top-quality staff. In the aftermath of RDR, demand for the very best quality has gone stratospheric. And even when you can find these people, they demand ludicrous salaries and often don’t stay for long.
For most of our candidates, using job boards is not the solution to their job search, in fact our research shows that they can be little more than a time wasting tool. Most job boards have two aspects to them, the ability to search and apply for a job and the “option” of having your details on a CV database.
Trying to decide which career to go into when you finish university? You may think there is only a limited ‘type’ of job on offer for you based on your choice of study.