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“What’s for you won’t go by you” is a fine old Scottish saying - if you are meant to have it then you will  - roughly translated.
A while back I was working with a lovely lady who was pulling herself out  from her own personal hell to get back into the world of work. She had applied […]

Good employers will have an induction plan in place for all new employees which will include basic things like pointing out the bathrooms and fire exits ( both crucial) to introducing you to your team to sharing history of the organisation to training in IT processes etc etc etc. This plan may take a week […]

The old saying “It’s not what you know but who you know that matters” applies as much today as it always did. The difference now might be that your network is larger and more geographically spread than it could have been 10 years ago.
So do you know who is in your network?
OK if you go […]

REFLECT
Think about what you have done in your life so far.This applies whether you are 16 or 60.
Maybe start with your job history - education history if you are just starting out.
Remember what you did. Write it down. Tell a friend. Talk out loud. Identify what happened and your role in that.
Think about feedback […]

I need to declare right now that I have never watched an episode of any series of the Apprentice. I have a vague notion of what goes on because the written media here covers it religiously. It came to something when a radio news report covered the story that the winner of this series lied […]

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