Category Archives: Career Development

Technology-Focused Career Options for Women: Virtually Limitless

Courtney HuntMarch 1, 2015 In Women in Technology: Promoting a Broader Perspective, I argued that women can make strong contributions in technology-focused areas without being employed by technology firms or educated and trained in technology-related fields. This piece extends those ideas by highlighting the diversity of career options for women available in the Digital Era. Although well intentioned … Continue reading Technology-Focused Career Options for Women: Virtually Limitless

Three Reasons Why Video-Enabled Recruiting Gives You An Unfair Advantage

Kevin GrossmanFebruary 28, 2015 Image courtesy of PeopleFluent Over the past decade companies have been slowly warming to video-enabled recruiting options to screen candidates from anywhere with an Internet connection. Many job seekers have also recorded their own “job experience” videos that they post online on blogs and YouTube to capture the attention of recruiters … Continue reading Three Reasons Why Video-Enabled Recruiting Gives You An Unfair Advantage

Your Reputation Is And Always Has Been Your Biggest Competitive Advantage

Rosalind HenshellFebruary 24, 2015 Reputation has always been important to any business. For many businesses, word of mouth and referrals from customers has been a big part of their growth strategy. Even companies with teams of salespeople and generous marketing budgets rely on their brand name and reputation to help seal their deals. In the … Continue reading Your Reputation Is And Always Has Been Your Biggest Competitive Advantage

Five Ways To Bag Yourself A Work Placement At A Careers Fair

Scarlett WilsonFebruary 22, 2015 So as you may have seen from Twitter and Facebook, Bubble recently visited the Manchester Digital Talent Day – we saw lots of eager students that were all looking for different types of things, from full-time graduate jobs to work experience and apprenticeships. But a common one that kept coming up … Continue reading Five Ways To Bag Yourself A Work Placement At A Careers Fair

“Sleeping” Your Way To The Top: 5 Ways Hypnosis Can Help You Climb The Corporate Ladder

Business.comFebruary 22, 2015 There’s a reason why I spent most of my professional life being self-employed: I don’t like submitting to authority. My time on the stand-up comedy stage is a testament to that; where I enjoyed skewering the absurdities of everyone else’s conventional lifestyle. However, a few years back I was approached about a … Continue reading “Sleeping” Your Way To The Top: 5 Ways Hypnosis Can Help You Climb The Corporate Ladder