Don’t know whether your coming or going in your career?
There's an important difference between these two statements I need to get away from this job I want to move to another job It should be obvious when you read them together like ...
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It’s (not) just a summer job
In the summer between leaving school and going to college I worked in a Scottish goods store in Princes Street in Edinburgh. In those days it was a very posh ...
Give me “more” work!
Some readers might think that I have gone mad. "More work? When I am already overloaded?" I hear you cry. But hold on a minute - I am talking about ...
Would you take your own advice?
A client was telling me about a friend of theirs who was having a terrible time at work. Her workload was apparently out of control and she was feeling so stressed that ...
Once more with feelings….
Regular readers of this blog will know how passionate I am about hearing people's voices. That's partially why I called my Facebook page "Speak up for Yourself". I guess this is why ...
How did I end up here?
"What do you want to be when you leave school?" Do we still ask that question? Is the 21st Century version " What do you want to do...?" Either way ...
Overloaded? Take action before something snaps!
The parable of the Training Bag A few years ago I was travelling - by bus - to deliver a speaking skills workshop in Edinburgh with my daughter, Claire, who ...
Choosing your university course with a job in mind?
A survey report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) entitled "Focus on Graduate Jobs" published last month finds that - from a sample of 2,037 people in ...
10 ways to use social networking to find a job
Job hunters need to be smarter than ever to find the few jobs that are around when they are looking. The traditional newspaper and journal job adverts, along with online ...
