There's nothing like being comfortable. An easy chair, a warm fire, your favourite wine, a great book and the dog snoozing at your feet. Circumstances like job search though, compel you to step outside your comfort zone, and for those who resist change, it can be a...
Thinking the right way
Prepare Yourself and Protect Yourself: Workplace Whispers
Not everyone in your workplace is your friend. And don't you forget it. Searching for a job is a stressful experience. It's filled with high expectations, frustration and dashed hopes. Sometimes you're bursting to confide in the people you work with because they're...
Changing Careers: Are you up for it?
Careers can evolve and progress over decades or they can move rapidly---prompted by life-changing circumstances such as retrenchment, a personal revelation, or the ill-health of a family member. If change is being forced upon you or you have decided to take the plunge...
You have been “Let Go”. Will it Make You or Break You?
Meet Linda. Seemingly out of the blue, Linda was retrenched. Just last year she was given a bonus and now she's packing her desk. Linda's angry, hurt and confused. She analyses every conversation and comes to the conclusion she was, without a doubt, badly done by. As...
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...
Recruiters: Brick Walls or “Holders of the Secrets”?
Recruiters appear to be at the top of most jobseekers’ hit lists. Most people I have come across are certainly soured by the recruiter/jobseeker relationship, united in their criticisms that search consultants are the impenetrable brick wall to job search success; the...