Smedvig Capital Invests $13.8m in job search engine Adzuna

Job search engine, Adzuna (www.adzuna.ca), has today announced that it has raised $13.8m from Smedvig Capital. The Series C funding round sees Smedvig join backers Index Ventures, Passion Capital, LocalGlobe and over 400 Crowdcube investors and takes the company’s total funding to $20.8m. Founded in 2011 by the team behind Gumtree, Zoopla and Qype, Adzuna Continued »

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Resume Killers to Avoid At All Costs

Having a clear and clean resume is one of the most important things you can do to ensure that you get an interview with a potential employer. According to research done at TheLadders, employers only spend 6 seconds looking at each resume for their initial fit or no fit decision, because of this, simple mistakes can Continued »

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Some of the Hottest Unexpected Jobs for Canada in 2018

Although many industries growing due to the technological advances in this day and age are quite logical, some of the following jobs that will also see high demand from this year forward, may be a little less obvious. Curious? Take a read and stay up to date with some of the hottest unexpected positions this Continued »

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Does an office without walls really work? The good, the bad and the ugly.

As the fictional Peter Gibbons from the 1999 sleeper hit Office Space said: “Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements.” While perhaps ahead of its time and hilariously relatable to many Continued »

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Why October is a Good Month to Start Your Job Search!

Many people come across as quite pessimistic about searching for a new job in the autumn, but October may in fact be one of the best months to begin looking around. The summer vacation season is over and the office is getting back into ‘serious’ work mode before the chaos which is December and the Continued »

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The Top Six Things Canadians Look for in a New Employer

Searching for and finding a new job can be an incredibly exciting experience, and it could be the start of a beautiful new relationship. As with any new relationship, though, we’re looking for certain things from a partner – shared values, common interests, same likes and dislikes, a similar outlook on life. It goes without Continued »

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Starting Afresh: Should You Consider Working Overseas?

It’s a tough call – should you stay or should you go? Sometimes if the work won’t come to you, you have to go to the work. That could mean relocating from one city within the province to another, heading to a different part of the country altogether, or even relocating overseas. People choose to Continued »

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Going Green: How Renewable Energy Could Create More Jobs

For many years the idea of ‘going green’ has been seen by recruiters and jobseekers as a danger to the Canadian jobs market – for a country so heavily dependent on oil, the notion of weaning the nation off the black gold and switching to renewable energy might seem like an impossible task. Back in Continued »

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Ten of the Most Unusual Job Titles We’ve Ever Heard

The Adzuna team are used to going through job adverts and noticing things which are a bit odd or unusual, mainly recruiters requesting slightly niche or downright silly skills. Sometimes it’s companies attempting to make the most ordinary of jobs sounds like a thrill a minute – who wants to be a Catering Assistant when Continued »

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Could Social Media be Costing You Your Perfect Job?

Social media is a great thing in so many ways. It helps us keep up with friends and family in different states and different countries, it allows us to share those special life events with the people who matter and it makes tracking down those old friends and old love interests so much easier… When Continued »

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