Be Unusual: 10 tips to defy ‘normal’ job searching
Defy normal job searching and show your flexibility and adaptability to the new employment environment!
…a meticulous worker bee or a game changer…
… this resonated so much with me as I read a piece on facing your fears to find your true purpose. A few years ago, I was a diligent, committed, focused, hard-working employee meeting all …
Embracing Change
“All change, please… ” This was a regular instruction shouted by train platform staff at intermittent periods when the train pulled into a station and sometimes for what seemed like, no good reason. As a regular …
Revitalising your Career!
Spring is here…! There’s something magical about Spring that energises thoughts and efforts. The sunshine makes a more definite appearance and the plants and gardens starts to show signs of life. If you are thinking …
New Year, New You!
Unleash your curiosity … venture out of your comfort zone, step out of any limiting or negative self-beliefs to achieve your career goals!
What’s your career story?
Over the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebration weekend my conversations spanned the historical, the present and the future. I exchanged observations with total strangers, anecdotes with family, jokes and belly laughs with friends. We spoke about …
Passions
Passion – this word is liberally sprinkled about but what do we mean by it? Well, it comes from a Latin word meaning ‘suffering’. In the career and business world, when we refer to discovering …
3 Ps of Success
Forget resolutions, preparation is the key! We are now in the 4th week of the New Year and I know that many people have already lost sight of the very thing that excited them on …
8 steps to active career planning…
The greatest asset in developing yourself is… YOU! As we all know, there is no magic formula to development. Just like all other forms of development, career development is influenced by many factors and …
People like me…
In conversations over the past few weeks, here’s what I’ve heard… ” People like me don’t have careers”; “I can’t be bothered with career planning…”; “What’s the point in training, everyone’s losing their job anyway…”. …