The first thing you need to do when you start looking for a job is to make a CV. This may look like a pretty easy job, but it's a tricky one because it's one of the most important steps of the process of finding a job, and it can either get you hired, or rejected. So in order to stand out in a good way, you need to follow the simple rules below:
1. Choose the right template
It doesn't have to be colorful or fancy, it just has to look professional and classy. So stay away from too complex templates, a simple CV is what recruiters want to see from you.
We usually associate summer with sun, sea, vacations and fun .... but often it turns out to be one of the best times when we can look around at what the market has to offer for our career development.
Summer is a prerequisite for frequent vacations and breaks for managers and employees, so the attitudes of the candidates are that the processes are slow and they ignore this period to look for the next opportunity.
The position is interesting, the company is intriguing and the social policy is to die for - good job offers contain these specific irresistible elements that every candidate looks for in a job ad. Naturally, the influx for such positions is high and the competition is often fierce. How can you guarantee that you make a good impression during the recruitment process and what does it take to stand out from the crowd? Here are a few tips from us:
Nowadays the best way to get a job is by working with a recruiter. They're the people who know the market best and have the connections to find the best position for you, give you advice and save you a lot of time.
So we want to share with you 5 tips on working with a recruiter to make your experience even better:
In the age of social media, everything in our daily lives happens online. This includes, of course, job search. Many recruiters use LinkedIn to connect with qualified personnel who would otherwise be difficult to find by chance.
Today we will share some tips for improving your LinkedIn profile to shine in front of your next employer.
Job interviews are an important step in the process of finding a new job that cannot be avoided. However, we can prepare for them in the best way possible. Interviewers ask various questions in order to learn more about the candidates, their interests, experience, motivation and skills. Below we will share 7 frequently asked questions during an interview: what their purpose is and how to best answer them.
Looking for a job and going to interviews is always a hard and stressful process. In this post you will find 10 things you must absolutely do during an interview in order to nail your dream job! Keep reading to learn how to master the process and get better offers.
Now that 2022 has arrived, so has the work that awaited us after the holidays. The pandemic is also still a fact, and most of us still work from home. But how do we stay motivated to work, when this can be a really big challenge, especially after the holiday season?
In this article, we will share some tips to increase your productivity while working from home, which help us.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to find experienced staff in the IT industry. In addition to their own channels, tеch companies rely on the help of recruitment agencies. And here come the questions: What exactly are these agencies? What are their functions? How do they help the candidates themselves? Etc. So let’s dive in and answer all these questions.
Over time, telephone calls have become an increasingly common practice. At first glance, the idea of them is convenient - such a conversation can take place anywhere, without even having to think about what we look like or what we are wearing. Here the body language can not “betray” us and the chance of falling into an awkward situation is much smaller.
We have all "met" at least once with the stress of applying for a new job. Today we are facing offers from hundreds of companies, the competition in the market does not stop growing, and we are left to wonder exactly how to stand out from everyone else.
Here our CV and how it is presented plays a big role.
In this article, we at Bulwork, will give you some tips on how to write a successful CV that will impress.
"What company do you prefer to work for - a Bulgarian company, a foreign company with an office in Bulgaria or a foreign company without offices in the country, where the only opportunity to work is entirely remote?"
This is a question that is rarely asked of candidates, but its answer is essential for them and could give the interviewer important guidance on the character and preferences of the person in front of them.
The Job Description is here to provide you the information for the main duties and responsibilities of the role for which you are applying.
A job description is the first and most important part of the job application process as, with the right information, it must help you determine whether or not the role is answering your skillset and whether it is something you actually want to do.
Attractive pay, an innovative office environment, "out of the box" employers - these are some of the fascinating features of IT industry jobs.
Many people are attracted to high-paying positions in the IT field, but will the career that offers the sphere in the long term will satisfy them? What qualities should an IT specialist possess in order to build a truly successful IT career and rise into the hierarchy of a company?
The modern world offers us a very dynamic labor market. Job competition is getting bigger. In the race to the new job, the success of the interview is a key step in achieving our goals and our desire to find new opportunities. If we prepare really well, that will give us more confidence, and we will be more confident in ourselves. And so we will achieve a certain success!
So-called hard skills are those that can be learned and measured. These are the skills we acquire during our education as we read or while we are working.
These are the skills we write about in our autobiography and which are very easy to prove.
A few examples of hard skills: knowledge of a foreign language, writing speed, managing different machines, code writing.
Motivation is key to managing human resources in an organization, but in this line of thoughts - like the behavior of the basic, human factor, motivation is also a major factor in each way of management.
However, as a starting point, let us note that motivation is an objective process, and motivation is a managerial impact on motivation. In order to better understand what motivates people, we will also look at the basic patterns that show what motivates workers.
When we start looking for a new job, our focus is more on the CV preparation, how to get a good job interview, what to wear during the interview, etc., and less often about references that we can provide to our future employer.
In 2018 once again, the biggest, most trusted brands suffered costly and damaging data breaches. Victims included Amazon and Facebook, Macy’s and Kmart, , Aidas, Under Armour and Delta Airlines.
After working for a while in a company and getting to know the processes, goals, culture and other specifics, we may have different ideas. These can be related to business process improvement, customer communication, existing or entirely new products and services, and various innovations such as podcasting, social activity, and more.
In 2018, Microsoft began distributing a new type of applications that are available to Windows 10 computers. These are Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and are versions of Web sites that can be opened even without an Internet connection. Apps not only play page content but also Push Notifications on the device home screen.
PWAs are stored on Microsoft servers and are automatically updated by the company. This type of application is based on state-of-the-art web technologies and features maximum quality that is commensurate with that of Universal Windows Apps (UWA).
Before we see compatible words such as recruitment and agile and how we can combine them, let's first make a brief introduction to the subject with a non-IT reading of Agile (flexible) methodologies and project management techniques.
As a recruitment specialist, I am increasingly convinced that intellect is not always a driving force in seeking a new job. I do not say in any case that it is not important, on the contrary, the intelligence does matter. Some are gifted with more intelligence and some things are attributed to them more than others.
Research shows that the first impression you create in the interviewer is shaped as follows: 7% of what you say, 38% of your voice and 55% of your body language. So, besides preparing for the questions you are likely to ask, you need to know what signals your body should send.
Very often, when IT professionals hear the word recruiter, they decide that they will be drowned for another open position by another recruiting agency or firm. Has recruitment turned into a "bad word" and lost the real selection of professionals?
Nevena Venkova
RULES FOR CREATING THE PERFECT CV
The first thing you need to do when you start looking for a job is to make a CV. This may look like a pretty easy job, but it's a tricky one because it's one of the most important steps of the process of finding a job, and it can either get you hired, or rejected. So in order to stand out in a good way, you need to follow the simple rules below:
1. Choose the right template
It doesn't have to be colorful or fancy, it just has to look professional and classy. So stay away from too complex templates, a simple CV is what recruiters want to see from you.