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Career Advice, Career Coaching

Suffering the Sunday afternoon blues?

To join the 9% who look forward to Monday mornings we need three things to be in alignment.1. Our Interests - To be…
Attitude, Career Management, Career Advancement

GCSE, A Level, BA, BSc, MBA or EQ?

Someone with a degree is no more likely to be a top performer than is someone with no qualifications at all. As Zig…
Career Management, Career Development

Be like Einstein, "passionately curious".

Do you continually think “why this”, “what that” and “how the other” when you are idly musing about nothing in…
Career Guidance, Interview Advice

Muhammad Ali, Plato, Egyptians and Swedes.

Muhammad Ali’s famous quote, “Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer” is not very good advice for…
Career Advice, Career Management

Mediocre - does this describe your career?

Let’s see what the dictionary says. Mediocre (EN) me·di·o·cre || ‚mɪːdɪ'əʊkə(r) adj. of medium quality, regular,…
Personality Style, Career Management

Let me share a secret with you.

Most of the 91% of employees who don’t look forward to Monday mornings, have never been shown, or have never…
Career Advice, Interview Skills

Silence is golden, isn’t it?

A friend of ours has two grandchildren, both in their mid teens. One’s a girl and when you listen to her you know that…
Career Coaching, Career Management

Your “professional brand.”

Your "professional brand" - and yes you really should have one - is in essence the combination of words, phrases and…
Career Advice, Interview Advice

Interviews, interviews, interviews.

There are easy interview questions and there are difficult interview questions.  Perversely some of the easy ones…
Enthusiasm, Career Management

Why is emotional intelligence (EQ) so important?

In 2011 a survey of over 2,000 hiring managers and HR professionals, found that 71% valued EQ over IQ and 75% said they…
Job Search, Career Advice, Success Habits

Are you insane - sometimes?

As Albert Einstein said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The…
Job Search, Career Coaching, Career Objectives

Reaching destinations and achieving objectives.

Me, as we went up in the lift to my office: “You managed to find us okay?”Client, with gratitude: “Yes, great thanks,…

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