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….), […]
Businesslike sentence is a phrase that can be seen in two different ways. Firstly, it is a string of words that are professional, clear and sincere. What a businesslike sentence used to mean for me was the other meaning; that sentence that infers imprisonment. “Sentenced” (as punishment?) to work in a businesslike manner. I was a […]
Businesslike Synonym: The Colin’s Dictionary lists these words as similes to Businesslike: Efficient, Professional, and Practical. There are also several words regarding the thoroughness of businesslike approaches: organised, systematic and methodical. Thirdly here are those words listed that reflect the means of operating in a businesslike manner: workaday, matter of fact, routine, correct and orderly. How […]
There is many a time that working with a clients we encounter a stumbling block around the idea of being Businesslike. The stumbling block usually being around the client’s belief about what ‘businesslike‘ actually means. Often entrepreneurs, or those of you in the creative industries, those of you who are sole-traders, seem to believe that businesslike’ […]
The third Monday in January has recently become known as Blue Monday, and not just in Wales: If you too woke to a rather damp and dark January day then ‘blue’ might apply to you too. Yes it’s about money, yes it’s about weather boy it’s probably also about transition. The difficulty with transition is that […]