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Dream jobs are not what you think
You probably have an ideal job you’ve fantasized about: movie star, professional athlete or something else rich and famous, right?

When you spend your days juggling jobs, meeting with clients and candidates, and (we hope) trying to offer a high-quality experience to the dozens of candidates that you are dealing with at any given time, it’s easy to put building your personal brand on the back-burner.

If you are planning to head out on vacation or step away from your office for a few days- creating an out of office autoresponder email message is essential (and even more important for email marketing purposes).  – By Carla Jordan

5 Tips for Successful Employee Recruiting

Where job interviews are concerned, I guess candidates are sort of supposed to feel like the inferior ones who have to win over their superiors aka the interviewers. To some extent that power play is totally fine, given candidates are vying against a number of competitors to bag the role and really have to prove themselves.

Personal assistants are many things. They are gatekeepers, publicists, counsellors, writers, negotiators, auditors, accountants, listeners, couriers and even stylists. How do they do it all? We spoke to the assistants of some of the world’s top personas to find out.

Are you so flattered when a recruiter rings you that you forget to ask them critical questions?

Globalisation is in full flight. Speaking of flights, when was the last time you booked one? And by ‘one’ we mean ‘one-way’.