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Top 8 Skills Employers Are Looking For

Jun 05, 2024

Employers consistently seek a range of skills in their staff to ensure productivity, adaptability, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic work environment. Here are the top eight skills that are highly valued: 1. Communication Skills: The ability to convey information clearly and effectively, both in writing and verbally. 2. Teamwork and Collaboration: The capacity to work well with others, contributing to team goals and maintaining...

Getting too many applicants?

Feb 01, 2024

Abstract: Too many applications received is a problem that is stated by HR teams. A real paradox when it is all about getting the 'right' candidate. A problem that digital platforms in some ways have created by making jobs accessible to more people - maybe! We recently received the following complaint: " Dear MyjobsFiji, when we advertise, we do not want to receive lots of CVs that are not relevant, and yet again, we are...

So Why use our platform? | Some employer quotes

Aug 01, 2023

Sure, we can tell you about ourselves and the fact that we have a platform that allows you to advertise and then manage each application including drag and group candidates as part of your candidate selection process. Yes, you read this right - all of the above is included in the price. Here are some quotes from very large Fijian employers: "We have good responses from MJF. This generation is online focussed not on newspaper...

8 Reasons to Advertise on our Site

Jul 31, 2023

70% of Fiji is under 40 - the so called "Facebook generation" We cover a Fiji wide audience that is digitally savvy and is unlikely to read traditional media We have a list of Job Seekers on our site who get daily email alerts on all available jobs - we send around 75,000 daily! Your brand gets out there. We can direct all applications to go through your own Website or any other link you specify. - Increase visits to your own...

Employers is this True or False?

Jul 03, 2023

We recently got an email from an employer. Now, before you read on, please bear in mind we cannot and do not want to control who applies. Our mission is to expose opportunities for candidates and employers and this situation would apply we believe to any method of advertisement. Having said that, we strongly feel that being part of the Fiji business and HR community it is our professional obligation to address issues if we can. It is also...

5 Reasons why your Job advertisements are failing

Apr 19, 2023

Let’s face it, candidates are human just like us and they have feelings too. Yes, a reminder is needed of the obvious. The key reason often stated is because you have not “sold” the job properly. What’s in it for me? Why should a candidate join your organisation? If you can't sell the job to yourself and not passionate about the product (your organisation) then it will come out. Even more sadly, we found there are a number of organisations...

The Hard to Fill Roles : Our observations

Sep 03, 2020

Through the jobs placed on our job platform www.myjobsfiji.com , we are able to analyse not only the number of visits, applications and alerts by candidates we are also able to carefully analyse the database of advertisements. This article is about occupations that are seemingly hard to fill in Fiji yet despite this, some organisations are still successful in hiring these hard to fill roles. We have been promising to write about our...

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