Tag Archive | "career advice"
Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Resources
In the last article, we talked about common CV mistakes and in this article, we’re covering the two most common pitfalls:
Achievements: Surprisingly, many people do not list achievements on their CV. Most employers, want to see how you SOLVE problems. What have you achieved? An achievement-based CV ABSOLUTELY critical in today’s marketplace.
Your achievements are made [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Resources
As a career coach and career preparation expert working on the Future Jobs Fund Programme aimed at getting young people aged 18 to 24 back into work, I have the opportunity to review many CVs. For many of these young people it is their first foray into the world of work, so I wanted to [...]
Career Preparation, Resources
If you have never been for a formal interview or it has been some time since you have attended one, the thought of attending an interview can be quite daunting. However, with the thorough preparation and the right attitude you will succeed. And remember “fail to plan, plan to fail…”
Here you will find some clear [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation
If you are either at crossroads in your career or still figuring out what ‘ladder you really want to climb’, a dream job may well be just what you should be looking for. However, many people are unprepared to contemplate the idea - well, it’s just a dream, isn’t it?
The short answer is - it [...]
Career Coaching
A personal insight into how Rosalyn Clare changed her life for the better. …
I spent ten years working in large companies. Two were US owned multinationals and another was one of the British big four accountancy firms. Despite working in a number of different roles with some success I wasn’t happy. My value to my [...]
Blog, Career Coaching, Resources
Is it who you know, on-line networking or more traditional methods that are best to find out about vacancies?
Here are top ten tips that harness all three approaches.
Ten Top Tips
1. Work out what you can offer to employers and design your personal brand statement
Your personal brand statement needs to possess three qualities according to Career [...]
Career Preparation, Resources
Its tough out there on the open job market, so accessing the unpublished or hidden job market is all the more important!
Social networking using Linked In and Twitter can be a pivotal strategy for tapping into the unpublished market.
According to UK Recruiter , recruiters and potential employers are using both Linked In [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Resources
Nine out of 10 organisations are now using coaching to help boost staff performance, despite a cut in budgets for training according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development ’s annual survey Taking the Temperature of Coaching, which found a sharp increase in the use of coaching as a training tool. Previous surveys found that only [...]
Resources
When you do something different with your career – it is a big change! This is true whether the change is planned or unexpected, and whether it is positive or negative.
We anticipate what will change as a result of us being in a different role, company, team, industry sector, self-employment or unemployment. We will work [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation
Its that time of year again. The summer is over and its back to school, the start of a new term. Teachers and students all over the UK are setting goals for the new academic year. So its a good time to set your career goals for the next year too.
Perhaps you have heard of [...]
