No salary increase possible due to Covid? Here’s 6 non-financial perks you may be able to negotiate instead.
This year has been a difficult one for business and where usually at this time of year, many staff would be receiving their bonuses or salary increases, the stark reality is that currently, many companies just can’t afford it due to the impacts of Covid19. So what do you do if you know you […]
Post-lockdown career reflection: 5 ways to assess if your pre-Covid career matches your post-Covid ideals.
The Covid period in Australia has seen more changes in the corporate world in just a few months than has happened in previous decades. From a corporate world that had firmly embraced the business as usual, 9-5, 5 days a week working model to a corporate world that had to get creative; implementing flexible, remote […]
The Top 8 Tips to Rocking a Video Interview.
It may be a whole new world in the business sector right now, but this doesn’t mean that interviews aren’t going ahead and people aren’t being hired. There are many sectors where hiring continues and companies have simply shifted how they operate. This has obviously seen the rise of video interviews as the new norm […]
8 Tips to Working from Home in a Covid-19 World.
At ALRA, working from home has always been a part of our business model, so in terms of shifting in what has become a very new dynamic for many people, we haven’t felt too great a change. A lot of people however are finding it difficult to make the shift and that’s likely because working […]
5 Ways to Mitigate Career Choice Regret..
One inevitable part of life is that at some point, we will make choices that we regret further down the track. As the expression goes, “we’re only human” and let’s face it, some bad choices teach us valuable life lessons that we may not have learnt otherwise. That doesn’t mean however that we can’t try […]
5 Really Common Interview Mistakes (you probably don’t even know you’re making..)
When we don’t get the job or even asked back for a second interview, we all wonder the same thing, “what went wrong?”. Sometimes the answer is actually nothing, you may have performed the perfect interview and have just been unlucky enough to come up against someone that was that little bit better for the […]
Master the Art of Interview Body Language with These 8 Steps..
Whether or not our brain is conscious of it, our bodies speak their own language. This language conveys what we’re feeling, thinking and our level of interest in the spoken conversation. It’s common for people to practise answers to potential questions or memorise particularly important segments of their CV prior to an interview. What many […]
Happy at Work? Now Could be the Best Time to Leave…
It may seem counterintuitive to say that the best time to leave your job is when you are super happy in it, but in our experience, that may well be the case. We know that our brain doesn’t always react well under stress and yet, we often don’t think about moving jobs until there is […]
14 Common Interview Questions – What is Your Interviewer REALLY Asking…
Interviewing can be intimidating, but if you’re prepared, you’ll feel much better going into it. We’ve combined our experience, industry resources and candidate feedback to come up with a list of commonly asked interview questions, what they’re REALLY asking and the best ways to respond. . COMMON INTERVIEW QUESTIONS 1. “So tell me a bit about yourself…” This is […]
8 Interview Tips & Tricks for Introverts
For even the most confident of extroverts, an interview can be intimidating. If you’re an introvert for whom selling yourself does not come naturally, going on a job interview may feel downright terrifying. The good news is that the workforce is not made up of only extroverts. Introverts hold their own in every industry out […]
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