Tag Archive | "career success"
Blog, Career Coaching, Resources
In a volatile global economy, thousands of people are facing uncertain futures. In times of reorganisation, redundancy and change, many individuals use the opportunity to review their career and choose career coaching to help them assess their options and create an action plan for moving forward.
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development report more than a [...]
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 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, Career Preparation, Resources
Have you found yourself being stuck in a relationship with your boss or colleagues? Or stuck in a job you no longer enjoy? You hear yourself saying “well that’s the way it is”, ” that’s the way he/she is”, “I can’t because ….” “that’s reality” or “I wanted this promotion so….”
The stuckness can bring up [...]
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 [...]
Career Coaching, Career Preparation, Resources
At Figuring Out we believe that rewarding work and high performance are closely linked. Work is more likely to be rewarding if it gives you what you want from it and you are more likely to perform at a high level if your work is rewarding.
It is a reinforcing cycle because performing at a high [...]
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 [...]
