Globalization has had a major impact on how companies conduct business. Markets that were once remote and out of reach are now easily accessed by motivated businesses. Doing business in a new country brings with a host of cultural challenges that must be acknowledged and understood.
This has resulted in an increase in the number of [...]
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Let’s start off the week by looking at some articles on cover letters which will give you lots to think about.
Top 5 Tips on How to Create an Effective Cover Letter
Keep Negative Info Out of Your Cover Letter
10 Reasons Why this Cover Letter Rocks
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Some of you may have noticed this high-profile news story from yesterday. A new study indicates that job applicants with English-sounding names on their resumes are 40 per cent more likely to be called for an interview than those with Chinese, Indian or Pakistani names.
You should read the whole study(40 pp. pdf)if you are curious [...]
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Because of renovations taking this place at Camosun College the Career Solutions office has been temporarily relocated. We are still in the same building but have moved to office # 134.
Call us at (250)370-4790 if you have any questions.
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This excellent blog post has 37 tips for building you offline and online network. Check out the whole article but I want to highlight a few important tips below:
1. Get an easy-to-remember email address. A good format is firstname.lastname@webmail.com where “webmail” is Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. Use this address for job search/work purposes only.
3. Prepare an [...]
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Software Engineers and Programmers will want to take note of this postfrom the Career UpShift blog which identifies the skills tech employers are looking for.
Companies are looking for specific skill sets: Anything that is hard core algorithms, pattern recognition, statistics — applying algorithms to real world data. If you have these skills you are likely [...]
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Custom House is a Victoria-based currency exchange company which employs 150 people in the Capital Region. They operate on a 24 hour basis and have employees who work in a variety of roles. Custom House has been purchased by Western Union for $370 million dollars.
Currency house is the second high- profile local business to be [...]
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148 jobs up for grabs in capital – Times Colonist
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