Why tell me what you can’t do?
In a recent episode of the Channel 4 series The Secret Millionaire the businessman featured offered to mentor a young man who came across as bright, personable and ambitious. Despite this ...
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Unhelpful job search criteria
I subscribe to the Harvard Business Review(HBR) daily updates and as is so often the case today's gave me food for thought. It's is a promotion for a guide to ...
Is your career like an antique?
On one of the many TV shows that involve finding/selling/valuing antiques recently a man had brought a decorative pot to get some information with a view to selling it. The ...
Invisible Job Hunters
I listened to the founder of Linkedin - Reid Hoffman - speaking at the Web 2.0 summit last week. You can find the whole interview here . A comment he made during ...
Have you got the post holiday back to work blues?
At the end of August many people in the UK will have already had their "summer" holidays ( the whole issue of what summer means when you live in a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Why a list of contacts is not a network
Network :" a group of people who exchange information, contacts and experience for professional or social purposes" concise oxford dictionary Does this describe your network? Maybe it describes some of it? If ...
