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How to boost your confidence at work: 10 tips for success

To boost confidence at work is not about consulting career coaches or asking for tips from your colleagues. The fear of making mistakes or holding back your ideas just because of your fear of being judged, are the most common cause of losing confidence at work...

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Importance of Active Listening Skills to Ace Interviews

Active listening is not the same as hearing. Most of us cannot differentiate between hearing and active listening. Though the terms are used interchangeably, they are poles apart...

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Dress for success: How to dress for video interviews

Dressing professionally plays a major role in your hiring process, ensure that you take time to attend to every little detail. Doing so, tells the employer about your seriousness towards the job despite working from a home environment. While video interviews are a little forgiving, going the extra mile will surely earn your brownie points, setting you apart from countless other candidates.
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How to find motivation while job hunting?

Is your current job getting you down? Do you feel sick at work and have nightmares about it most nights? Feeling stressed at work can be normal, but feeling depressed and trapped, even after you’ve gone home, is not. If you’re feeling like this, you’re not alone – experts suggest that people burn out and change careers between three and seven times over their lifetime. But how do you change careers if you don’t know where to go next? The following five steps will..

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6 Soft Skills That Differentiate A Good UX Designer from A Great One

Thinking about the future and figuring out what you’re passionate about can be daunting at times. ‘What is my passion?’ And ‘is this job for me?’ can be challenging questions to answer, leaving people in complete distress. We often question whether our skill set complements our aspirations and future goals. Your dream is still achievable with the skills you currently possess!

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What Do UX Designers Do?

Is your current job getting you down? Do you feel sick at work and have nightmares about it most nights? Feeling stressed at work can be normal, but feeling depressed and trapped, even after you’ve gone home, is not. If you’re feeling like this, you’re not alone – experts suggest that people burn out and change careers between three and seven times over their lifetime. But how do you change careers if you don’t know where to go next? The following five steps will..

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UX #101: A Beginner's Guide into the world of User Experience Design

Let us start off by making a highly contentious statement: Everyone is a designer!

When you choose to wake up on a particular side of the bed – you’re designing; When you choose to don a pair of slim fit denim with a tee – you’re designing; From the words we use and the people we choose to surround ourselves with, everyone makes design choices through the course of a day - a purposeful planning to accomplish certain goals. Let’s take a step back and figure out ‘Who is a designer?’

How to move toward a career change

Is your current job getting you down? Do you feel sick at work and have nightmares about it most nights? Feeling stressed at work can be normal, but feeling depressed and trapped, even after you’ve gone home, is not. If you’re feeling like this, you’re not alone – experts suggest that people burn out and change careers between three and seven times over their lifetime. But how do you change careers if you don’t know where to go next? The following five steps will..

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Australian Workplace Culture

Australian workplace culture can be very different to what you may have experienced elsewhere. The employment market is..

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How is your LinkedIn profile ranked?

LinkedIn is a well-established and renowned online platform that has changed the way employees are recruited. Formerly serving as an additional asset to your resume, LinkedIn is vastly becoming the most recommended job application tool, replacing the traditional resume/CV format..
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Get the job and ace the interview like a boss

Scoring a job interview is an exciting and nerve-racking process and interviews conducted over Skype are becoming more and more popular when organizations need to scrutinize the first round of applicants. If you ever face an online Skype interview don’t freak out, as it’s your chance to leave a long-lasting impression..

Why is mentoring important?

To get a foothold in the employment market for a new career, it can often be beneficial to look beyond the dream job and find something less permanent, like an internship, or of a lower skill-set requirement. This can seem counter-intuitive, but this kind of advice is exactly why a mentor is...

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The Benefits of Online Learning

I heard a statistic the other day that more people own a mobile device than they do a toothbrush! I don’t know if that statistic is true, but there is no doubt that technology and digitalisation has changed the world. And the education and training industry is taking advantage of the opportunities this changing landscape is providing.

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Decide on your career pathway with these 4 questions

Thinking about the future and figuring out what you’re passionate about can be daunting at times. ‘What is my passion?’ And ‘is this job for me?’ can be challenging questions to answer, leaving people in complete distress. We often question whether our skill set complements our aspirations and future goals. Your dream is still achievable with the skills you currently possess!

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8 Essential Technologies for Future STEM Careers

While we focus on our careers in the present, sometimes we miss the bigger picture - the future. This is especially for those looking at building a STEM career. Knowing what skills are likely to be in demand as..

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