You don’t have to have a degree in it, you don’t have to be a card carrying member of Mensa, nor do you need psychic abilities. When it all comes down to it, being successful at interviews is largely about using commonsense balanced with truth. Let’s...
Prepare Yourself
Job Action Day 2009: Today’s Enlightened Jobseeker
As a member of Career Collective–a community of resume writers and career coaches, this article is one of many responses to Quintessential Careers “Job Action Day”. I encourage you to visit other members’ responses, which will be linked at the end of...
You’re leaving? Is the grass ever really greener?
There are some perfectly valid reasons to leave your current company. An entrenched bullying culture, where management pay lip service but nothing ever changes. Serious mismanagement where you know that any moment auditors will be walking in the door and closing...
Resisting Change? Say Goodbye Career
What have you done to improve your skills in the last six months? The last year? He who stands still doesn’t stand a chance in this ever-changing world. Think your job will be there forever? The title may well remain, but without a doubt, the job itself will...
What the heck are you doing?
Give someone your undivided attention. It’s not old-fashioned to stop multi-tasking for a minute. Manners are what makes us civilised; and they also appear to be in decline. Just last week I was talking with an Operations Manager friend of mine, who was hiring....
Sabotaging your prospects: cookie-cutter style
As a member of a new community of resume writers and career coaches called the Career Collective, this post is one of many responses to the question, “Are you a cookie cutter job seeker?” I encourage you to visit other members’ responses, linked at...