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Why is this happening and how can we try to stop it? Ghosting is not only linked with online dating. It’s rearing its ugly head more and more in the world of Recruitment.  Ghosting can happen at any stage of...

As a candidate looking to find a fabulous job, it is not expected that you will know the ins and outs of what to do to land it. You might be a perfect fit for a position, but not being...

These have been some of the buzzwords during this two-year pandemic!  The Great Resignation can almost be compared to The Great Trek in 1835 – 1840 or in Afrikaans “Die Groot Trek” which saw around 15 000 farmers from the...

Since the onset of the Covid pandemic, many individuals have been reevaluating their employment situation, and many have chosen to seek new opportunities. The question is though, what happens when a person decides to resign and their employer makes them...

This year has seen a promising start in the employment sector, but with thousands of people still searching for that dream job, there’s nothing better than taking some time out to polish a resume or CV into what employers are...

Our company, The Career Network, is a generalist recruitment agency and the number of CV’s and requests for employment we are receiving in our inboxes at the moment is heartbreaking. From every discipline and level, you can think of. From...

“You can buy a man’s time, you can buy a man’s physical presence at a given place, you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour per day. But you cannot buy enthusiasm; you cannot buy...

Studies have shown that recruiters spend an average of 6 seconds reviewing an individual resume!  Think about that for a while… Below is what we at The Career Network look for when going through one of the most important documents of your life,...

A few years before I retired from Old Mutual Wealth at the end of 2016, the major shift in thinking in the Financial Advice industry was creating a plan for the person rather than for the person’s money. The point...