Read about how career transition and career management. This is aimed at individuals who are in the process of planning (and making) their next career move. Tips about identifying your next move and managing the transition, including tips about CV writing, interview advice, job searching, speculative job hunts, getting head hunted, managing your personal brand and social media.
The summer months are always an odd time as far as the job market is concerned: a lot of people are on holiday, they are not around to interview, they are not around to make decisions. It is – generally speaking – a wasteland of a month when it comes to jobs. If you...
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Employee Engagement appears to have become the new alchemy. Businesses use surveys to search for elements which they then try to mix in the hope to strike a winning combination. Here’s a suggestion for where one Philosopher’s Stone may hide – career management tools. I stumbled upon this beautiful HBR blog post this week,...
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I was working with a coachee recently through career choices and job searching. It was a reminder of how difficult redundancy can be. We worked very hard, the coachee and I, to understand where they would like to go and what vehicles would take them there. We then had to build the vehicles and...
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the National Career Service put together this cute little infographic about the history of the CV. Is any of it new to you?…
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With more and more companies making the most of the professional social network that is LinkedIn, ignoring LinkedIn as a medium to find a job is like ignoring internet job sites. Even if you have a user, be honest – when was the last time you spruced it up? If your profile is forlorn,...
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One of the most difficult things when you are job searching is defining what it is you are looking for. It’s a very hard question to ask yourself, because it is not very often that we have a very clear image of what we want to do next. I’ve found that this question becomes...
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