Defeat the Job Hunt Doldrums
Is your job-hunt taking a nosedive for the worse instead of comfortably cruising at high altitudes? Below are six sure-fire ways to inject some momentum into your job search activities and ensure success:-
Have an expert inspect your CV
If you have been sending out your CV for some time now with no success, chances are your CV needs some degree of work. It could be simply a matter of spelling , grammar or formatting or the fact that your CV is poorly tailored in terms of content for the kinds of jobs you are applying for. Bayt.com, the Middle East’s #1 job site, has a dedicated CV Services division which specializes in reviewing and fine-tuning professional CVs or writing CVs from scratch. Taking the time to invest in your CV will reap tremendous benefits in the long run.
Supercharge your Cover Letter
Your cover letter is your introduction to yourself; make it simple, catchy and leave the employer hungry for more. Use your cover letter as an opportunity to show you understand the company’s needs and are uniquely positioned to meet them through your skills, credentials and experience.
How to Maximize Employee Loyalty
A previous bayt.com blog entry “What is the Price of Employee Loyalty” handled the topic of employee turnover and looked at how frequently employees search for job opportunities while they are employed. The key question for employers in a tight and turbulent job market where news of vacancies travels at internet speed and online job sites have made the job search process a highly efficient and competitive endeavour, is how to effectively minimize this turnover and win the long-term loyalty of its employees. The career experts at bayt.com below outline some key measures to successfully curtail staff turnover and maximize employee satisfaction:-
Adopt hiring best practice
Hire to keep. When selecting candidates interview and assess them for the job at hand but also for their innate potential to progress up the ladder and assume the next role up the rung and a role above that. Effective hiring ensures not just present fit in terms of technical skills, soft skills and cultural fit but also long-term staying power with the company and potential to assume leadership positions further down the line.
Promote from within
Give the internal talent pool the first right of refusal for all positions that arise. This will maintain the competitive spirit, fan the flames of ambition and ensure that employees are certain of opportunities for growth and progress within the organisation.
Women in the Workplace
As more and more women in the Middle East rise up the ranks in their corporations, assume leadership positions, open their own businesses and choose to balance career and family, demands on regional workplaces are changing and corporations are increasingly challenged to find creative means to retain their female staff and facilitate their welcome choice to balance career and family.
In a recent bayt.com poll, over 46% of respondents said the number of high ranking professional women in their organisations have been increasing, with less than 15% saying they had no high ranking professional women in their organisation. Working women however do not feel too comfortable yet in making demands of regional employers as evidenced in a separate bayt.com poll run in April, where over 50.2% of respondents claimed that gender played a large role in hiring and promotions activities within their organisations; a climate not too conducive to tipping the balance in favour of the career/family marriage.
