Category Archives: Jobs
Monitoring the Curriculum Vitae you sent
The research the Institutions carry out does not take the same amount of time as the candidates’. For that reason, generally, they do not respond immediately when they receive each Curriculum Vitae (CV). By contrast, the selection process can take long periods of time. Continue reading
Your prospective job. The résumé
When it is up to your working prospective, having a crisis isn’t something unusual at all. But even when the word “crisis” usually has a negative meaning, it also implies a change, and changes can mean evolution. Continue reading
Our job interview tips
Getting your phone to ring after sending a résumé is the first step to success in the hard road to finding your new job. That is why people say that the job interview begins the moment you pick up the phone and answer the first questions of your interviewer. Take it easy, but remember you need to know where are they calling from, what the open position is and the name of your interviewer. Continue reading
How to cope with the first interview
For any person, the first employment interview is a moment of nervousness. What are they going to ask you? What are you going to say? What are you going to wear? These questions have been asked by all of us at least once. But if we want to pass this test successfully we must not let ourselves be overcome by fears. Get relaxed and take note of our suggestions. Continue reading
The importance of a letter of presentation for any job
The letter of introduction is the initial greeting between you and your future interviewer. For that reason you must be very careful about not committing errors that could ruin the first impression. If the letter is manuscript, an unclear writing or misspellings will leave you out of process. In the next paragraphs we will give you some guidelines to take into account for writing a letter of introduction. Continue reading
I have a job interview, ¿what I am going to do?
All job interviews cause anxiety, uneasiness, a wish to pass it soon and with good results. It is a space where every false step can make us fall and lose. Although we know that they will not appreciate all our potential in that meeting, it is important not to think about it, in order to avoid nervousness and boycott ourself. Continue reading
Management skills: Managing a virtual team
The new economical patterns increasingly bring to existence the virtual teams. The management of people with a common goal but who are physically in different places has its advantages as well as its disadvantages. Continue reading
How to write a letter of presentation
The letter of presentation is our initial greeting to our future employer as applicants to his working offer. Generally, this letter is going to be in company of our CV, it doesn’t matter if it’s in response to an announcement or a spontaneous presentation. Continue reading
The “perfect” Curriculum Vitae
The “perfect” CV does not exist. Many times it is very difficult for us to express in few lines all our capacity and knowledges, and we cannot read the minds of each one of the persons that will have our CV in their hands, and will be responsible of take a decision about it in the selection process. Continue reading
How to build a professional curriculum
When you elaborate your curriculum vitae, you may have a lot of doubts, for example, which jobs should I add? Do I have to include jobs not related with my area of study? Or, What happens with two weeks jobs? Which is the best way to organize the information in order to get an interesting and professional CV? Continue reading