In Australia, the winter months are typically a flurry of activity for jobseekers and recruiters. June 30, the end of the financial year, signals new beginnings. Employers, having put off making hiring decisions until now are typically cashed up and motivated to seek new talent. And, as a handy coincidence, workers are getting itchy feet and long for something new and Read More
Changing Careers: Not for the Faint Hearted
Let's not sugar coat it. Changing careers is not for the fainthearted. You are always competing against people who have strong, progressive experience in your desired job or industry, and often, your competitors will have an established network of influencers at the ready to verify reputations and credentials, and recall praiseworthy career moments. Compounding the Read More
Your Job Search: Let’s Just Start Again Shall We?
According to Albert Einstein, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". Consider John. John has been unemployed for about four months now. He's had two interviews that came to nothing and has no plan or strategy for moving forward. He keeps sending the same resume and cover letter to the same type of Read More
It’s not your age, it’s old thinking
"It's my age, that's what it is", Joan lamented. "I need to come to terms with the fact that I'm just of 'that age'. No-one wants a person of my age in the workplace!" Joan is wrong. Sure, if she wants to be an actress in a teen comedy, yes that's probably true. If she wants to be a top-level fashion model, it's probably true too. But a retail manager of a fashion Read More
Another Year, A New Job Search Begins
The New Year's fireworks have heralded a new beginning. For many, it's the continuation of a long and frustrating job search that carries over from the previous year. For some, decisions have been made to take action and throw off the constraints of a job that now holds little appeal or that failed to live up to expectations. Regardless of your personal situation, it is Read More
Favourite Resources for Job Seekers
Every so often, a new batch of job seekers are born. Wet behind the ears and new to the game, their eyes are wide with anticipation, hope and a thirst for knowledge. They need some resources and of course I'll oblige. Some of these resources cost money, some don't. Sometimes the things that do cost, are such a return on investment as to be well worth the fee you Read More
Social Media Networking & Your Career: It’s Not Just a Fad
“The Internet? We are not interested in it.” – Bill Gates, 1993 In 1989, we purchased our first home computer. It was around $1800 and even more if we added an item the salesman assured us we couldn't live without... a 10 megabyte hard disk! (Yes I said 10 meg). Hubby was all for it. "It will be so much easier" he said. "You can save your documents on the hard drive." I Read More
Heating up your job search. Five ways to dismiss those winter blues
As the wind howls down the cold city streets reminding you of the folly of not wearing fleecy undergarments, you can always count on your humorous friend to cheerfully remark "Is it cold enough for you?" as you take refuge inside the warm coffee shop where you're meeting for a spot of networking. Yes, winter is a miserable, bone-aching and often depressing time and it is Read More
If It’s Not You and It’s Not True, You’re Fooling Yourself
#careercollective "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken" Oscar Wilde "Thanks so much!" said Jim as he prepared to leave my office with his new resume. "Oh there's just one thing", he whispered conspiratorially. "I guess I had better get a wife and three kids before my interview! Ha!" Stunned, I stood there processing the fact that I'd been lied to as Jim took off Read More
Job Search: When it all Turns Sour
Every day, probably every second, someone will have the decision to leave a job made for them. One of those people could be you. It may be that administrators shut down your company with no warning, or you are forced to take a redundancy, or you fall on your sword for a decision that never was yours to begin with. These are the circumstances where you have no time to Read More
How are those New Year’s Resolutions Panning Out?
Don't tell me, because I'm about to guess. Your New Year's Resolution to lose a few pounds? It's been broken already hasn't it? Sure it has! You're only human after all! And that other resolution; the one where you said that this is the year you're not going to destroy your health by running yourself into the ground with work? Remember that? It only lasted until the second Read More
