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! […]
Before filling in any job application I believe that you need to know why you are applying in the first place. If you are not wholly congruent, then, at some level the recipient will ‘get’ that! It always amazes me that whatever platform we use to communicate, our true selves are reflected there. “Always be […]
I read somewhere that peace lies in “Taking the action and letting go of the outcome”. But, isn’t that hard? How can you not mind where your action leads? But equally, might this ‘letting go’ also the best way to take any professional risk? Managing Professional Risk The only way to grow professionally, in salary, […]
What’s differentiates career counselling Bristol, from anywhere else in the world, is the energy and dynamism of this city. What people might not risk starting elsewhere, is begun here. That which people might struggle to sustain in other cities, goes right on developing here in Bristol. Whatever might not flourish in other cites grows on to be […]
The chances are that if you are taking a job satisfaction survey then you are probably not as satisfied at work as you wish. Either someone else has asked you to do it, in which case that is about their satisfaction with your work, or, you are so bored and disconnected at work then you can […]