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Position yourself for continued career success with the resources provided below, including our fortnightly newsletter Career Communiqué x-Press, career counselling articles, and websites of interest. Enjoy!

   Career Communiqué x-Press NewsletterCareer Counselling Articles | Website Resources

Career Communiqué x-Press newsletter:
November 2003
æ Five ways to prepare for Interview Questions
æ "How do you handle problem customers?"
æ   Q&A: Is a 'thank you' appropriate after an
      interview?
æ   Salary disclosure strategies
 
December 2003
æ Optimising your resume for internal promotions
æ
Working Wardrobes-Guest Writer
æ
Unexpected interview screening opportunities
æ
Working Wardrobes-Guest Writer
æ 10 Tips for making more time in your day.
æ Q&A: My young daughter needs a resume-help!
January 2004
æ  Avoiding stress and burnout
æ  10 most commonly asked interview questions
æ  Common interview bloopers
æ  Top 10 Career Milestones
æ  His Style
æ  Q&A: Referees - Whom to choose
February 2004
æ  Are you a procrastinator
æ  Optimising your communication
æ  10 tips for communicating your career brand
æ  Business casual
æ  Q&A: Focused or broad career target

March 2004
æ  Managing your interruptions
æ  10 tips for S.M.A.R.T. interviewing stories
æ  Business basics and black in style
æ  Q&A: Strategies for my cover letter?
 
April 2004
æ  Maintaining your motivation
æ  The buoy factor
æ  Q&A: Why do you want to leave your current
    employer? How to handle that interview question


May 2004
æ  Rules of goal setting
æ  Dressing casual in business-flirty after 5
 

 

June 2004
æ  Importance of researching in your job
    search
æ  Avoiding work-a-holism
æ  Investment Dress
æ  How to beat physical graffiti
æ  Q&A: Illegal interview questions

July 2004
æ  Don't become a victim of burnout
æ
  Will I fit into this company? 5 hot tips on
    uncovering a company's culture
æ  So what really is business casual image
æ  What treasures are hidden in your office
    draws
æ  Q&A: How to hand termination in an
    interview

August 2004
æ  Secure that internal promotion
æ  What not to wear when wanting a pay rise or
    promotion
æ  That's the way we do it round here
æ  Q&A: How to handle career breaks
æ  Protecting your personal persona


September 2004
æ  Career Crossroads
æ  Workplace Bullying
æ  How to improve your image while watching
    tv
æ  Hot email tips for time efficiency
æ  Identifying your expertise, experience and
    education

October 2004
æ  Congratulations to all graduates!
æ  Strategies for continuing career success
æ  Image-Job interview tips
æ  Are you drowning in email?
 


November 2004
æ  Job Search Success
æ  How to stretch time-24 hours is enough
æ  Why have I got a wardrobe full of clothes
    and nothing to wear?
æ  Behavioural Interviews-How to survive
    them!
æ  Scrutinising your skill level

December 2004/January 2005
æ  Tips to keep your job search confidential
æ  That's the way we do it round here!
æ  Study proves Image Consultants increase
    self esteem
æ  Q&A: Transitioning from non-profit to
    corporate

æ
  Portfolio Careers

 
February 2005
æ 10 Tips to enhance your networking skills
æ Choosing the right resume format
æ Not another meeting
æ Is your handshake up to scratch
æ Q&A: I'm overqualified - Help!
æ Job Loss...




 

March 2005
æ Be afraid, be very afraid of gremlins
æ Could your computer virus be keeping you
      from a job
æ Teamwork for Job Search Success
æ Designing and Using an Employment/Web
     Portfolio
æ Do you look outdated
æ   Privileged soapbox? How to be an effective
     chairperson
æ Transforming your hobby into a business


April 2005
æ Career Schedules
æ Asking for a Pay Rise
æ Have you got a minute - Interruptions, the
     Bane of our Life
æ Using colour to look slimmer and taller
æ More Workers Choosing Part-time Careers
æ Q&A: A Consultant's Resume
æ 5 Common Mistakes to be wary of before
     starting your new business

May 2005
æ Women and Men and the Workplace: Same
     Strategies, Different Realities
æ The importance of job applications
æ How to make Temp Agencies work for you
æ Research in your Job Search
æ Q&A: 23 years' of experience?
æ Breaking through the Barrier - Dealing with
     Unhelpful Mindsets
    


June 2005
æ Demonstrative Interviews
æ The Human Resource Personality Test
æ Are you reading as many books as you like
æ Q&A - Tell me about yourself?
æ 5 key steps to developing a positive
   approach



 

July 2005
æ Burnout
æ How to keep all the balls in the air - managing
   work and home
æ Maintaining professionalism throughout your job
   search campaign is crucial
æ Q&A - Strange Interview Questions
æ Customer Relationships - The lifeline to your
   business success

August 2005
æ De-mystifying Resume Keywords
æ Fast-track career success with Informational
   Interviews
æ A life balance profile
æ Interviewing: Visualise Success
æ Q&A: A graduate's perspective on
   employability skills
æ More Profit with Improved Lifestyle 

September 2005
æ Crucial research to catapult your interview
   performance and your career
æ Gimme more time
æ Coach's Corner-Education & Learning
æ Q&A: "How much money will I need to live the
   lifestyle I want to retire?"
æ Increasing Business Awareness through
   Business Coaching

October 2005
æ Interviewing 101-Avoid being labelled
   'Overqualified'
æ Growing your network...to achieve your career
   goals
æ Job Search Etiquette-Thank You Letters
æ Coach's Corner-Cracked Pots
æ Q&A: Where are all the jobs?

 


November 2005
æ Interviewing 101-How to handle a previous
   termination in an interview
æ Special Offer - Resume Gift Certificates
æ Coach's Corner - Finance & Money
æ Managing Debt-are you working for it or is it
   working for you?
æ Q&A - Returning to the Workforce
æ Strengthening Foundations to Improve
   Business Success in the New Year

Dec/Jan 2006
æ Coach's Corner: New Year's Resolutions - Don't
   set yourself up for failure!

æ Making sure 2006 is your best year ever - Kick
   Start Your Year
æ In the Spotlight: Interview with Julie-Anne Peake
    - Psychologist
æ Q&A: I'm tired of my role, but I love the
   company - HELP!
æ New Year Career Checklist

February 2006
æ Coach's Corner: Living your Purpose
æ Ten Business Success Tips
æ Ace that Interview! Preparation is key
æ In the Spotlight: Interview with Sarah Brown
   -  Bookkeeper
æ Q&A: I want to resign - can you provide a 
   few pointers?
æ Going Part Time [from a financial aspect]
æ Continually being passed up for promotion?
   Key strategies to overcome this problem


March 2006
æ Coach's Corner: Changing Unhelpful Beliefs
æ Ace that Interview: Assessment Centres
æ In the Spotlight: Mary Benton - Financial Planner
æ Q&A: I'm in career limbo! Help!
æ Hot off the Press: Keeping up with AEC news!
æ The Redundancy Ride
æ Monthly Specials - Career Web Portfolios

 


April 2006
æ Coach's Corner: Pursuing Your Passion: have
   you lost the passion for your work?

æ Ace that Interview: Bad Fit Syndrome
æ In the Spotlight: Geoff Edwards - Business
   Coach
æ Q&A: I want to resign
æ Breaking through the Barriers - dealing with
   unhelpful mindsets
æ Hot off the Press: New alliance established!
æ Get Dressed for Your Job Interview
æ Monthly Specials - Career Web Portfolios
æ Super Splitting


May 2006
æ Coach's Corner: Living Your Purpose: Strategies
   for Ongoing Career Success & Future
   Employer Negotiations

æ Ace that Interview: Research is Vital
æ In the Spotlight: Sharon Coffey - Recruitment
   Consultant
æ Q&A: PhDs - in or out?
æ Hot off the Press: New book launch!
æ A Little Humour
æ Monthly Specials - Free Book Giveaway
 
June 2006
æ Living Your Purpose: For Graduates
æ Ace that Interview: 5 must-follow interview
   strategies
æ Q&A: How to address lack of formal education
æ Hot off the Press: Purposeful Careers: 15 steps
   to clarifying, designing and living your life's
   calling launch
æ Monthly Specials - Free Book Giveaway
æ Program Launch: Powerful Resumes - 6 crucial
   writing strategies to Secure that Interview! e-
   workshop
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   Additional career related articles:
   Fast-track career success with Informational Interviews
 Demystifying Resume Keywords
 Enhancing Your Marketability
 Boosting your candidacy for an internal promotion
 To lie or not to lie
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   Additional career and corporate related website resources:




Seniorsearch
Description: Seniorsearch provides a unique service to advertise for experienced mature age workers. Click to find out more and advertise on Seniorsearch.  




The Regeneration
You accumulate all sorts of useful skills throughout your life... and your set of skills is a very marketable asset at any age - from 18 to 88! However, you probably haven't been trained to think in terms of marketing your skills, as your your skills define who you are! Skills define the person, and each person is unique.

In Australia there is now an Australian Skills Marketplace - a place where you can register and advertise your unique set of skills, and where savvy employers can locate people with the skill set they need.

Just think about it for a second...
A service that allows you to market and trade your skills directly with the people that need them!



Just Be


Just Be is Australia’s job site and career resource for women, helping women find jobs and enhance careers by connecting them with organizations and employers that take diversity seriously.


Priorities
Priorities is a recruitment and training firm that specializing in placing highly capable people into flexible roles.  We help employers to recognize the value that can be gained from flexible job design and we assist candidates to find that ideal role that enables them to achieve work/life balance.

Jobs in HR
Description: Jobs in HR is a free employment information service specifically for the Australian HR profession. Our weekly or daily email bulletins are guaranteed to contain only fresh employment opportunities from graduate level through to Director.  

Work In Cairns
Description: Work In Cairns is Far North Queensland’s No.1 Job Search website. Search for Jobs, post your resume. Employers, advertise your job vacancies online.

People Online - Job Search Australia
Description: People Online is a Job Search Agency in Australia focused on finding the right people for the right employment positions in many diverse and exciting industries. Also offering recruitment services to employers looking to advertise positions vacant. Located in Adelaide but servicing Australia wide.

Begin Career
Description: A Valuable Career Directory and Information Resource.

Business Intelligence Software Directory
Description: A one stop resource for all your business intelligence software needs.

Begin Writing
Description: Categorised resource directory for everything about writing.

KW Browse
Description: Resume Writing Tools

http://customerservice.resourceaid.com/customerservicecoverletter
Description: Resource site for everything to do with customer service. Full of newsletters, articles, links and other resources - ALL FREE - in one easy to navigate site to save time and money.

Career Assessment Brain Testing
Discription: Find out what half of your brain is most dominant, what skills you possess and how can this help you build a strong career. Be happier, healthier and wealthier.

Study-Online.net
Description: Provides information about online degrees & courses, colleges & universities.
You can find the program you need, register, and earn your degree from the convenience of your home or office.

Applicant Tracking Software
Description: HR Brief is an online guide to HR consultants, which provides information and the best recruitment software solutions to human resource consultants.

www.icejobs.com
Description: Recruitment Consultants based in Mumbai, India offering jobs in all industry sectors including Information Technology, Software, Retail and Engineering. Extensive career related resources available.

Human Resource professionals
Description: HR shopper is your one stop shopping destination for every human resource. We provides HR solutions to every body who are looking for practical day to day advice in their life.

Physician Employments, Dermatology jobs
Description: A complete resource of physician employment, physician jobs and different variety of medical, cardiology, medicine jobs available.

Different Teaching Strategies
Description: Starla's Teach Tips offers an array of lesson plans and different teaching strategies for subjects including Science, Body Systems, Anatomy and more.


Free Coaching Resources
Description: New and exciting site provide information about Coaching Resources and Directory

Physician Jobs & Physician Employment
Description: A fast physician employment site for all specialties for North America with automatic email job updates. Offers a directory of recruitment firms.

Military School
Description: Military-School.org, your one-stop site to learn about the fascinating world of military school life and opportunities.
 

Career Test – Fish for Your Career

Description: Find your ideal career with this online career test. Groper assesses your interest in 170 occupations to determine the career and area of study that best suits you.

Horizon Academy
Description: Horizon Academy provides advanced learning courses which help students to maximize their learning process and help them achieve academic excellence.

Job interview questions

Description: A job interview questions guide for jobseekers and for interviewers

DayWork.com.au  Part-Time, Casual and Temporary Australian Job Search
Description: Free job search, work alarms (job email alerts) and work wanted posters for job seekers. DayWork.com.au - Jobs that fit your lifestyle.
 

   Description :  Manchester Job Smart is committed to help you find the right construction job in Manchester.

   Who's Hiring.com.au
   Who's Hiring aims to deliver Jobs, Careers & Employment to job seekers. Jobs can be found via direct contact with
   companies,  major organizations and recruitment agencies looking to employ.

Jobs Australia
Get the latest jobs in Australia & New Zealand from Jobserve.

Technical Interviewing Tips

Access to Interview Questions & Answers; Placement Written Test Papers; Source Codes & Student Practice Guides, and more for the candidate targeting the IT industry.