Cover letter advice

• Are application cover letters out of fashion?
• The purpose of a cover letter
• Writing a winning cover letter
• Cover letter tips and tricks
• Quick cover letter tips to use now
• 10 cover letter mistakes to avoid
• Sample response cover letter
• Sample cold call cover letter

Resume Advice

• Shackled to past mistakes
• See yourself in the third person
• If in doubt, leave it out
• Add some green to your CV
• Multimedia CV: Put your best face forward
• Resume writing's deadliest sin
• How to identify job skills
• Using key words in your resume
• Covering up your job-hopping

• MORE Resume Tips and Advice

Finding a Job

• Men winners in job market rise
• Surprise rise in new jobs
• Taking aim at a myth
• Skills shortage opens new doors
• Benefits bolster the bottom line
• Attitude, not uni, key to a job
• Graduates face tough times
• Hard labour finding job: where to look
• Comfortable or committed?
• Experts wind back jobless forecasts
• How long it takes to find a job: 10 weeks
• Beware the job-search minefield
• Worst may be over for job market
• No room for job snobs in recession
• Hit the books and see it out
• Australian study shows racism when hiring
• Find your inner strength
• Employment Forecast: March 2009
• How to net a new position
• Chase the big bucks
• The perfect place to work

• MORE Finding a Job

Job Interview Advice

• Blundering on
• Act the part
• How can I get over my nerves?
• How to answer tricky questions
• Get what you want at an interview
• How to detect a liar in interviews
• Right to refuse a question
• Tips for a successful job interview
• Common job interview questions
• Banish job interview nerves
• Body language tips for job interviews
• Make your call count
• How to spot a great employer

Salary & Wage Advice

• Union push to insure your income
• Super tax skewed too much to high earners
• Make your package pay
• Higher fees paid from Australians' funds
• Stinging attack on gender gap
• Because you’re worth it
• Equal Pay Day brings calls for audits of gender salary rates
• Women still trail in pay stakes
• I want what she's getting
• Less dollars make more sense
• If you don't ask, you don't get
• Silence is golden in pay wrestle
• How to ask for a pay rise
• Negotiate a higher starting salary

Career Management Advice

• More work for less pay: Australians stuck in rut
• All the care in the world
• Is change in the air?
• Measures of success
• Risk it and reinvent yourself
• View from abroad
• Four keys to success
• The line of credit
• Never stuck behind the desk
• Take the pressure off
• Find your own job network
• Take a look at yourself
• Point to your direction
• Volunteers can get rich working for free
• Coming to work in Australia
• How to increase your job opportunities through successful networking
• Mentoring: Your guide to greatness
• Tired of waiting
• Flexibility has its flaws

• MORE: Career Management Advice

Employment Forecast

Employment Forecast March 2009

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