Your career outcomes psychology is important. Why are these outcomes important? It is because if gauged correctly, then these outcomes become fundamental building blocks in your continuing professional Development. How do I know this? It is because I gauged my my career outcomes unwisely and this affected my psychology significantly. This in turn affected my […]
Career Outcomes: One of the questions I ask clients, towards the end of our working relationship is, “how much control have you got over this outcome?”. Having invested a considerable amount of time and indeed money in a coaching process, perhaps you would expect a ” 10/10 answer. Surely you should have the ability to control the […]
One of my favourite Job Hunting Quotes is this: “Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.” Katherine Whitehorn It’s beautiful in its simplicity, and equall,y the echoes around it’s real meaning have resonated for years for me. I think this is because it has a connection to […]
Job Hunting Meaning: In the past I think believed that the meaning of a job hunt was to go out, to find one and to kill it. Rather like a cave-dweller, I had leave the domestic fires, wrap up against the element, grab my spear and risk travelling miles of uncharted territory in order to […]
I like this short list of job hunting tips from The Guardian: “In the digital age, it can sometimes seem a little old fashioned to approach a recruiter by telephone, but it’s still an effective method. If you’ve made an application online and haven’t had a reply in a few days, don’t be afraid to […]
As i am sure you are aware, there are plenty of job hunting sites. I for one can stare at Glass Door, whilst it promises to find me: “the job that fits your life” for hours on end. The longer I stare and search, the more distracted and drained I can become. This is not […]
Do we go about job hunting all the wrong way around? Do we literally treat it like “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt“? Does following the mantra “we can’t go over it and we can’t go under it, we’d better go through it” consistently really work for us? Or would it be wise to take […]
Why would you seek career transition coaching? Two reasons shout loudest to me. Firstly your role has changed beyond recognition. Secondly because you have outgrown your role. I explore many of the reasons that your professional culture might have changed beyond recognition in this earlier content. The fact that as individuals we might outgrown our jobs […]
Are you currently facing career transition? Whilst there are obvious career transition points in a life time, for example leaving academia or home buying, starting a family or retiring, there are all sorts of other triggers in between. Many of these triggers can feel that they are not of our making right now. With budgets […]
Before you take out any kind of Career Development Loan, it is wise to know exactly what that commitment will do for you. The financial crash of 2008 and the subsequent problems within the financial sector within the UK have clearly shown us that living on credit alone is not sustainable. When you take out […]