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Kirstin Burke

  • When to Be Modern (and When to Go Old School) in Your Job Hunt

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  Get the balance right, and you could be making yourself a stronger candidate.    https://www.themuse.com/advice/when-to-be-modern-and-when-to-go-old-school-in-your-job-hunt

  • 5 Job Search Tactics You Must Stop Immediately

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends: Eliminate all of the time wasters that you have built into your job search and invest in processes that produce positive results.  Guarnateed along the way you will start to learn a lot more about yourself, and you may even develop your networking skills along the way https://www.themuse.com/advice/5-job-search-tactics-you-must-stop-immediately

  • 5 Ways to Improve your Employability

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  Whether you are just about to start planning your long and successful career, or are looking at ways to change your career path.  Here is some fantastic advice, that will be very effective in building your skills set, and turning you into a professional and confident interview candidate.  http://www.theemployable.com/index.php/2013/07/10/5-ways-to-improve-your-employability/

  • 21 Tips for Better Visual Storytelling

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  Marketing and advertising be it traditional or in the form of social media is all about grabbing your audiences attention in order to achieve positive results.  Which means we all have to be excellent story tellers, get your story board right and you are half way there http://community.paper.li/2014/04/07/21-tips-for-better-visual-storytelling/

  • 99 Sites That Every Professional Should Know About and Use

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  So many fantasic e-tools to turn us all into highly organised and pro-active professionals, brilliant!!  https://www.themuse.com/advice/99-sites-that-every-professional-should-know-about-and-use

  • Job hunt like Sherlock: research your future employer

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  The power of researching a company, it’s sector and the role you are applying to can transform an application and interview.  As Sherlock Holmes said “There is nothing like first-hand evidence.”  http://careers.theguardian.com/careers-blog/researching-an-employer

  • Google and Facebook in recruitment drive

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  This could be exciting career times for creatives http://www.recruitmentgrapevine.com/article/2014-04-10-google-and-facebook-in-recruitment-drive

  • How to Bite Off More Than You Can Chew—and Get it All Done

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  I can really identify to this article, and lots of great advice to help me keep my project management skills on track when those projects start to grow and grow.  https://www.themuse.com/advice/how-to-bite-off-more-than-you-can-chewand-get-it-all-done

  • Richard Branson on Why Making Employees Happy Pays Off

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  Happy employees = successful business (and let’s not forget a thumbs up regarding staffing retention)  http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232702

  • Leadership skills: should it be a love or hate relationship?

    Kirstin on Fullback and Friends:  By identifying what personality traits you have could have a big part to play on what type of leadership qualities you have.    http://careers.theguardian.com/careers-blog/leadership-skills-successful-leader