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...
Thinking the right way
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...
Recruiters: A Jobseeker’s Friend or Foe?
Rarely a day goes by when I don’t hear grumbles and rants from jobseekers about recruiters. “She said she’d call and she hasn’t!”, one will moan or “He won’t keep in the loop about my application” another will wail....
September is International Update Your Resume Month
You’ve heard of Pink Ribbon Day, Red Nose Day, The Year of the Whale, Forest Awareness Week and so on. All of them very important in raising awareness for different causes. Now there is one for the workers of the world. Yes folks, September is the official...