Job change reason: As you will probably know from experience, the reasons for a career change are many-fold. Sometimes there are external triggers and sometimes the trigger is internal. Whichever trigger causes a career change, rarely is the transition smooth. The bumps in this journey contains our learning, so, it is not all bad. Whilst it […]
If you are seeking a Job Change then here is some valuable guidance taken from an article by Sarah Shearman in The Guardian: ‘Before you start your search for a new job or career, it is important to invest some time “getting to know yourself”, suggests Lis McGuire, “It might seem tricky, uncomfortable or uncertain, but […]
Employment Opportunities: In the current career climate, you need to be creating your own career opportunities. In most sectors, the career for life has long gone. Now we manage our portfolio careers. In taking charge of our own careers we need to become adept at all the skills a small business requires. We must manage […]
I have some employment news. The news I have is information you already know. I would like to remind you of this information all the same because it is all too easy to forget. When we enjoy something, we do it often. We become very good at the things that we do often. Because we […]
Employment Exchange: noun: British a former name for employment office has a very different meaning for me today. Employment exchange simply means that I need to work in a time and place where there is the possibility of literally exchanging one job for another. The inference I take from this is that my whole twenties were not […]
Employment Definition: Believe it or not, there are as many definitions of employment as there are employers and employees. The important thing to focus on is, that in professional collaborations, you really understand each other’s definitions of the work involved. My husband has a saying (warning – swear alert): ” Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups”. […]
This is what Wikipedia say of Employment: Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee. I dont know about you, […]
Career Coaching Interventions: There are three principle ingredients to excellent career coaching. There needs to be a series of diverse and engaging career coaching interventions. There needs to be a client who brings openness, honesty and willingness. There needs to be a coach who can intuit just how and when to apply the right interventions to […]
This link to some Career Coaching Assessment Tools can be really useful. It is also important to bear in mind that the information they reveal about you, your learning style or your personality type, are merely preferences. There was perhaps an over-use of of psychometrics in the 80’s and 90’s, and these have left people […]
Career Coaching Questions: Coaching is all about the curiosity. Coaching is all about the questions. The more questions I ask as a client the better. The more questions you answer as a client, the more clarity we have in the picture we create around your professional needs. Socratic Questioning is a fundamental technique within the career coaching […]