With increasing job uncertainty in the uk, more and more individuals with multidisciplinary skills, are taking to entrepreneur route. Here is a link to some excellent national business start-up support if entrepreneurship appeals to you too. I had a misconception of the personality type of an entrepreneur. Raised by socialist parents who worked in the […]
Mentoring job: Is it not the job of each and every one of us to mentor those who need our support? Is this not a community obligation? Is it not a responsibility of each and everyone of us to be generous with what we have ourselves been shown? Is it not a real ethical stand point to take if we […]
Here’s a link to a Bristol based ILM accredited mentoring course. What you will notice is that it is a coaching AND mentoring course. Raising the question of what is the difference between the two. I looked a whole range of definitions provide by various professional organisations and discovered, that as an experienced coaching practitioner, I disagreed with […]
If you are considering starting a mentoring program Here’s some guidance. Whatever your structure, and structure is important, the fundamental purpose of mentoring is to ‘show yourself’. “Come as you are……… “. This is not a cultural norm in the Uk. We have, unbeknownst to us, become all wrapped up in the ‘oughts and shoulds’ of our actions, […]
One definition of Mentoring meaning is this: a senior or more experienced individual(the mentor) is assigned to act as an advisor, counselor, or guide to a junior or trainee This is particularly seen formally in employment but I believe mentoring plays a far bigger role in our lives than we give it credit for. For as […]
Here are some employability test questions from Kent University. Feel free to see how you score: The question I usually forgot to ask in the past was “Do I want to past their test?”. Do I rate this business or organisation and do I want to work for them? What other choices do I have….? One of […]
Here’s an article providing guidance on employability for the self employed. I bring this to the title of employability because more and of us are choosing to employ ourselves. There are plenty of good things that come with self employment, but it has its fair share of hazards too. Attending to these hazards now means the […]
Do you really need employability skills training? Or can you do the excavation work yourself to reveal your own skills and capabilities? My guess is that you are absolutely able to do just that. However, be wary, for we live in a consumer society. When we are encouraged to, and indeed are at home with, […]
Are you more than your employability skills checklist? It always a look at the 8 most important employability skills. Take a look and see if you are more than the sum of these parts…. Heres the employability skills checklist advice from a government site: “Generally speaking, there are eight skills that employers want you to […]
Never forget to check for the employability skills you already have before charging out in search of the qualification that will get you “The Perfect Job”. If you are an active personality type (by which I mean that you take action when change is required, not that you are at the gym 7 days a week….), […]