Job Advice Blog

The 50/20/30 approach is a well-received budgeting tip that suggests you spend 50% of your income on necessities, put 20% into savings, and spend 30% on whatever you fancy. The idea behind this is that you are always saving a decent amount of money, while still allotting yourself enough to survive and even thrive.

Whoever you are speaking to has spoken to a lot of people that were “motivated”- and some of them turned out to be telling the truth, some of them were not. Point is, the word no longer has any meaning to them. It is kind of like walking in there and saying “I am human!”- you might need to be to get the job, but you don’t really need to tell the hiring manager. If you want to impress a hiring manager you have to tell them something that they don’t already know.