Reminiscing about past jobs can give you a warm glow, particularly when you’re feeling less-than-happy in your current role. It is not at all uncommon to romanticise successes, remember happier times, and wish for a more comfortable existence than is currently...
Strategic Thinking
Lateral Moves: Do you really have to leave your job?
Looking for a new job is a typical reaction when you acknowledge your unhappiness with your current role. In these difficult times where competition is high, you may want to ask yourself “Is this what I really want?” What if there was a way to move forward...
A Tombstone Resume: Eulogising Your Experience
As the thunder crashes and the witches begin their chants, it’s clear Halloween is here. Gather around jobseekers while I tell you a frightening story. It’s the Legend of the Tombstone Resume, a grave recount of missed opportunities and ill-advised...
Facing Facts
Some people have a knack for walking into roles for which they are, on paper at least, entirely unqualified. Passion and wanting it so much it hurts, as any failed Australian or American Idol contestant can tell you, doesn’t make it happen for the rest of us....
It’s not over until an offer is made.
The interview is over. Phew! What a relief! The hard work is done and now it is up to the “powers that be” to make a decision. You’ve done as much as you can do and now it’s just a waiting game. Really ? You don’t have any niggling...
Reputation Killers: A Personal PR Disaster
Your reputation is one thing you can’t buy, beg, borrow or steal. Your reputation is yours alone, built by your actions–how well you perform, how you treat those around you up-and-down the ladder, your intelligence and your ethics. Today, more than at any...

