A cool hack for job interviews
22 February 2016
For all of you who would like to be better at interviews here is a nice little hack that can have wider reaching benefits.
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5 Principles of Career Success
3 February 2016
For career success understand the fundamental principles underlying it.
Reignite the sweet spot in your job
24 January 2016
Ah, that sweet spot that is the bliss of being totally engaged with your work and your career. So many people start with it, loose it and want it back, with most career angst arising because you are not experiencing it.
It is possible to find and maintain that sweet spot in your career and this article looks at the contrasting tale of two people I worked with recently and the different experience they have of their work and their career.
Career Hopes for the New Year: The What and The How
12 January 2016
What hopes do you have for your career in the coming year? The beginning of the year, when we are fresh from holidays and full of hope, is a great time to explore and discover what is possible in our careers.
How successful were you really in your career this past year?
29 December 2015
These 5 questions are perfect to ask at the end of the year and will help set you up for the coming year by bringing awareness to what really matters for career success.
Learn from Job Rejection
19 November 2015
Despite your brilliance, your thorough preparation, your interview practice and your deep desire for the role, sometimes you won’t be successful in jobs you go for. As much as you might want to yell and scream, or curl into a ball and lick your wounds there are a couple of things to realise and a few actions you to commit to doing in the face of having your application rejected.
Resume: An Opportunity Missed
19 November 2015
Does your resume sell you in the way you want to be bought or is it a document that only continues to get you more of what you have already had?
Avoid Reactionary Career Decisions
4 November 2015
Do you make your career decisions from a strong proactive stand point, or are they reactionary and in response to dissatifaction? You will be happier with your career, and experience more success when you are able to shift a lot of the negative emotional content out of your career decisions by making lots of little decisions on a regular, ongoing basis.
Hidden Power of the Resume
20 October 2015
For too many people their resume sits festering in the bottom drawer, forgotten about until you are under the pump to quickly produce it. Yet keeping your resume up to date and fresh can hold lots of benefits. Your resume, when it is well written and deeply thought about, can hold lots of power to ensure you are selling to employers what you want them to buy from you and have you feeling fabulous about yourself.
Embrace Interview Stress
20 October 2015
The sweaty hands, the racing heart, the knots in your stomach, and lets not forget the light headedness, and the blabbering. People report many physical symptoms of interview stress. Anxiety in interviews has become such an accepted phenomenon there is almost an expectation that you will experience it. The idea that interviews induce anxiety is so commonly accepted that people who don’t experience problems with interviews worry that maybe something is wrong with them!