Did you give yourself some return to work credit? It’s so easy to discount the sheer level of adjustment that returning to work requires of us. Having been too unwell to engage in paid employment for a couple of years in my thirties, in my mid-forties I find myself in a polar opposite situation. “My world is […]
In the HSE Return To work Form there is this guidance: “If staff take time off work because of work related stress, getting them back to work as quickly as possible is important………. In general, people find it more difficult to return to work after a long-term absence.” In general, I have to concur because […]
Managing your return to work, be it post summer holidays, returning to academia, post illness or maternity leave, can be conflicted and feel tumultuous. There can be equal amounts of excitement and fear, because, whatever type of return to work this is for you, things will have changed in your absence. Don’t forget that you […]
The words below align completely with my experience of engaging with really excellent professional experiences thus far. This is my careers guidance Bristol “Be brave, be bold, be daring as you can be, and then go and find a team of people who can make that passion a reality” Q Adam White BAFTA award winning Big […]
Protestant Work Ethic! That’s my careers guidance UK opening gambit today. I’m talking here about the mayhem a work-ethic can cause us when it runs riot through our everyday lives. I found these words in The Independent “I think 2008 made some differences. People who had followed the work ethic for years found themselves without […]
It might seem like there are changes with this blog, and, you’d be right in thinking so: If I seem like I am blogging less, I am. If you fear I am less committed,I am not! I have another project up my sleeve. It will take a little time to reveal. At beginning of September all […]
Coaching Goals: Coaching is a goal oriented process. It is also important however to recognise when the goals you need have changed. In my experience we humans tend to evolve way faster than we expect. Therefore, if we continued to head towards our original destination, we risk atrophying our real possibilities. It is really important to […]
Interview Rejection There are three types of interviews that I know of: There is the ‘Successful Interview”: Congratulations; You got your job! There is the “This Ain’t It Interview”: This is the one you attend, and you kind of know that this isn’t for you. The pleasantries are made, the questions answered. The spark just […]
I learned something yesterday that might help raise the impact of of your job application letter. I had a surprise: I was ‘confessing’ a couple of new business propositions to a colleague of old. I did have to laugh at our unexpected responses. I was telling her in secret because, whilst I’m all for accountability, I’m also […]
If, when writing your job application cover letter, you find yourself saying something akin to the following phrases, then I have some guidance for you. “Good god! Not only have I filled in their online 8 page application form (& probably wasn’t the first!) but now they want me to send a cover letter too! […]