We get it, cover letters can be tough. There is so much confusion about cover letters, and so many people just simply don’t know where to begin, what needs to be included and how to really go about the whole process.
Interestingly, salary is one of the biggest reasons for people wanting to leave their jobs. Recent research shows that 70.82% of people who have quit their job did so due to money. Interestingly, it differed between the various age groups, with few Baby Boomers being motivated to look for new jobs due to lower incomes.
So, you are in the process of putting your resume together to land that dream job. You have built up years of work and life experience and are now only supposed to put it down on two pages. There is a lot “trimming the fat” that you have to do right? Well, we are here to help.
Times are tough at the moment, and the world has seen an extraordinary amount of lay-offs taking place due to the sweeping effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been estimated that 81% of the global population have been directly impacted by partial or total closure of their workplace. In order to maintain some kind of income in these times, a lot of people are searching for the quickest ways to find and secure a job. But, just how easy is that?
On Wanted, over 70% of women's salary expectations are lower than their male counterparts. This trend seems to be confirmed across all jobs and levels of seniority. Even though women's salary expectations seem to get proportionally closer to men’s as they become more experienced, this change seems too little to fully close the gap down the road.