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How To Explain A Gap In Your CV

There can be many reasons why you have a gap in your CV and many try to hide the reasons feeling it will reduce their chances of getting the next job even if the gap was for a valid reason. How should you deal with the career break? Illness, accident, caring…

Best Cities In Australia For Digital Nomads

Digital nomads seek new locations to experience, explore, work from, and add to their impressive list of “places I’ve been to and worked from”. Office Needle has compiled a list of the best 54 cities for digital nomads around the world. Here we list the best cities in Australia for digital nomads. …

4 Work Tips For Digital Nomads

One of the best things about living in a time when working remotely is accepted is that you can travel and see the world while holding down a full-time job. If you’ve ever felt the urge to pack your bags and move to a new country temporarily, being a digital nomad is probably the…

How To Write An ATS-Friendly CV And Beat The Bots

When hiring, most organisations use software known as an applicant tracking system (ATS), which scans CVs, eliminates the least qualified applicants and creates a shortlist of the most suitable, all before a human has set their eyes on the applications. Fail to tailor or format your CV appropriately, and you may never hear back…

3 Quick Ways To Put LinkedIn In Your Resume

These days, it’s almost impossible to imagine a job search without LinkedIn. This handy tool helps us with many things: from analyzing career trends to contacting recruiters and representing our accomplishments. So, you’ve written a catchy summary and a headline, included key skills and added samples of your work. Once…

Wanting To Work As An Expat Partner? Do You Really Want To?

When your partner is offered a career enhancing opportunity abroad and you decide together to take the step, the family will enter a whole new phase in family life. If you are happy to leave your job behind and look forward to spending more time with the family and building a new life in the…

The Impact Of Giving Up Your Job To Become An Expat Partner

Not everyone outside the expat community responds positively when you talk about being an expat. Sometimes judgement is apparent; you can be seen as a spoiled, stay-at-home expat partner with no material needs or wants, spending lazy afternoons at the pool-side sipping cocktails with friends. This may or may not have been true many decades…

How To Nail The Video Interview

Technology and connectivity are a gift to the modern day expat, presenting them with a way of communicating globally – regardless of their geographical location. And, with video interviews now being carried out by almost 80% of employers thanks to the pandemic and implementation of lockdown restrictions, global job seekers now have more opportunity than…

5 Financial Tips For Volunteers In Australia To Achieve Financial Stability

Over the years, volunteering, working, and even living abroad has become more affordable and rewarding for people around the world. While it used to be notoriously expensive to relocate to another country and settle there, nowadays you can choose volunteering as a great way to explore a new country in an affordable way. Most importantly,…

Coworking And Coliving – For Remote Workers And Digital Nomads

Remote working can give the freedom to work anywhere leading to the growth in digital nomads, but takes away the communal element of the traditional office. Coworking in shared offices is a practical option and coliving takes it to the next level where you live and work in an environment with others looking for…