So you’ve got passed the cover letter and Resume screening, and now you are on to the interview - well done. There’s more work to be done however! If you have researched correctly during recruitment periods, and made sure you have spent more time on your cover letter and CV, you should have a plethora of interviews to attend to. To celebrate, the following is a list of things the interviewer DOESN’T want to hear.

“What in the world is Computer-ecological?” you say?

I use this term to refer to an ecological footprint, which can be affected by technology based outcomes. Here are 7 ways you can reduce your footprint, so as to save on resources which can be used by those in the future:

A Cover Letter is a list of reasons why you are the best suited candidate for a job. Thus, the first step to getting that interview is to make a cover letter stand out from the rest of the crowd. The average student won’t spend enough time to perfect it, often resulting in a long, drabby, and unenthusiastic passage of arduous text. While it is largely difficult to summarise your offerings within a one page summary, the following is an article which provides 5 key tips and considerations to assist in writing a cover letter from scratch.

The best part about being a student is that you have all the time in the world to decide what you want to do in the future. You don’t really need to wake up in the morning for that 9am lecture, nor do you really need to study for exams consistently. In fact, I’m sure there are a lot of students out there that believe cramming is the best way to learn. But in the real world - there’s an underlying expectation of consistency being the best delivery. The following article (which is split into two parts) provides some insight on ways I have used to get motivated, by managing time and setting career and life goals.

Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day starting becoming a social norm at work and university, just about when lunch started to be something people “do” instead of “eat”. But is drinking so much coffee in the day really damaging anything? Does it really give you the right wake up call when you start falling asleep in lectures or even at client meetings?

Of course it does. But is Coffee the new smoking habit of the 21st century? I’m sure there must be a better way.

Need to celebrate your anniversary, but out of cash? No time to earn money due to other commitments? Fear not, money isn’t everything when it comes to romance. In fact, the most romantic things are the simple things in life. You really don’t need to spend money to enjoy your time in Sydney, and if you take the time to look around, you will realise this.

Having spoken to the national recruit managers of top management and strategy consulting firms, I guarantee you that they come across the same common mistakes year by year when receiving resumes and cover letters; and for these applicants, they will issue an automatic red cross of disapproval.

This article addresses a checklist that you should perform all the time before you hit your submit button:

Following on from the article outlining why you should spend more time on your resume the following is an article on guidelines to design principles that you can follow to create a simple and effective CV / Resume, without the Clutter.

Much like User Experience (UX) Design, and the use of CSS techniques to make sure that this website appeals to its users, likewise your resume must take consideration of design principles for maximum legibility.