The August edition of the Love Your Job newsletter is available for download here:

http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/newsletter/Aug2010.pdf

It’s a different style and layout with masses of mini articles. You can read about:

* New Graduates

* I’ve lost 80lb since October 9th

* Taking time to chill

* Will you make the time for career coaching?

* Career Programmes

* I have a good job but am I happy in my job?

* Quotes

* Job Search help

* How to choose a career coach

* Amazing People Intern

* My books

* Denise the film director

* Denise on the radio

* Denise on DVD

* Advice for career professionals, or those who want to be

* Random acts of kindness

* Using LinkedIn for job search

* Twitter

* Working with Denise Taylor – Why I’m different

* Group Job Search Programmes

* Blog

* What Denise did last month

I hope you enjoy it

Best wishes

Denise x

Love Your Job – Helping you to love your job or to find a job you do love – July Newsletter

Hi all

It’s July and I’m happy – listening to some great music (Frank Turner), the sun is shining, just back from the gym and working on some interesting topics. I’m not always as happy as this and in the past I’ve had serious bouts of depression, but thankfully not for a long time. 

Depression is not a sign of weakness, it is a sign that you have been trying to be strong for too long. It’s mental health week and 1 in 3 of us will suffer, at some point in our lives.

I’m always conscious of times I may slip so I look after myself, have people who love me and have learnt ways of coping with the things that can pull me down, which included having in-depth counselling to address things in my past.

We never know what the future may bring, however healthy we are things can strike us down, so I try and strike a balance between sensible plans for the future and living for the moment. I enjoyed the film The Bucket List recently which has Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman write a joint ‘bucket list’, what they want to experience before they kick the bucket and then go about doing the things on their list. 

I personally think that a list is not just about travelling to places and e.g. going sky diving but also thinking about what you can do for others, the memories you leave behind. not just big things, but the smaller things too. It’s those things we remember when someone is gone.

I’m now a director of ZoomInterviews and will be telling you more details as the company develops it’s UK presence. In the meantime I’m looking for some help from ex military people (UK based) so if you fit the bill, or know someone who does can you contact me. 

To read more >> 

Welcome to the March issue of Love Your Job. I’ve got 2 articles this month that I think you should find interesting: ‘What does career satisfaction mean to you’ and ‘Confessions of an introvert’.

I’m always busy, and February has been even more busy than usual. My 3rd book went on sale on 15th February and I did a couple of linked radio interviews including recording a couple of podcasts for The Guardian. This has resulted in me being asked to participate in an online Q&A session with Guardian Careers, more details below.

On a personal note, in the past 5 weeks I’ve lost just over a stone in weight and I’ve been doing some killer workouts. As you will have gathered over the months, I am fully focused on my goal, and have now gone 20 weeks without chocolate, paying out for my personal trainer Ben Carpenter helps with my motivation but i’m also focused on my long term goal, and make sure that for almost all my time I focus on where I want to go and visualise my end goal. Just like my job search clients need to do, focus on getting the job and make sure the actions they take help them to achieve their goal of a new great job and to monitor progress. On the weeks I haven’t lost weight I’ve reviewed my eating and exercise plan and made changes, just like job search clients need to review CV, covering letter, interview skills etc. I’ve now lost 52lb since I met Ben and 102lb from my fattest. I’ve now bought some new clothes!

I’m keeping track of where my clients come from and over 55% of clients are from London and the South East. I’m also working with more younger clients, helping them make the right choices for A levels and university. It really is a great time to seek out professional help if the young person is ready and wants to do this.

In this months issue:

• Article 1: What does career satisfaction mean to you?
• Article 2: Confessions of an Introvert
• Join me on Face Book
• In the media in February
• Twitter
• What Denise did last month
• In the Blog

Read more >>

February 2010

Hello again and I hope you are doing really well. So often when people ask someone how they are the reply is ‘fine’ in quite a deadpan voice. But we should all be feeling great, and if not we should be doing something about it. If you answer with no sense of energy to your voice what sort of impression does that give to others? I much prefer to reply with an enthusiastic ‘I’m doing great, thank you’.

I’ve lost a further 9lb this past month, so my health goals are on track. I’m even more pleased to be dropping clothes sizes and had a real clear out of my wardrobe, everything that is big on me has now gone.

Business wise I’ve taken on several new clients, all seeking help to work out what job is best for them or to ace the interview/assessment centre. I’ve also done some analysis and over 45% of my clients travel up from London and the South East, 6% from overseas and only 12% are within 20 miles of where I live. I knew I had a lot of clients from London but was unaware just how many I had. Some of these work with me by phone but 80% will visit me at least once.

I’ve also spoken to quite a few journalists, helping them with their articles. I’m really pleased with how they featured one of my clients in the March issue of Woman & Home. Christine is featured on page 72 and looks amazing.

In this months issue:

• Article 1:Say no to being told you are overqualified
• Article 2: Could dyspraxia be a reason for problems at work?
• Are you on Linked In?
• In the media in January
• Twitter
• What Denise did last month
• In the Blog

To read more

January 2010

Happy New Year, and a big welcome to my 2042 subscribers. May the year ahead be everything you want, in all of your life.

4 days on from New Year and many resolutions will have been made and broken. Rather than rush into resolutions, it may be better to take some time out to set some goals, for your career, relationships and wider life. I’ve an article on this below.

My main goal for the last 3 months has been to get fit and healthy. Each month I share my fat loss progress with you, and I’m bang on target, having lost 35lb in 3 months. Ben Carpenter, my personal trainer is very pleased with my progress and has quoted me on his blog. One reason for sharing this is that it really helps you to achieve a goal if you tell people. 

Read more >>

November 2009

I decided to get this to you early this month. Like always it’s busy for me, but really interesting, and I hope that your past month has been good for you too!

People often ask me how I get so much done. It’s all down to priorities, and since undertaking part time study alongside a full time job and family (in my 20s), I’ve been one to take action and rarely procrastinate. But there are things I should be doing which don’t hit my priority pile and the biggest one to miss is taking care of my health.

In this months issue:

• Article 1:The importance of setting goals
• Article 2:Job Search: Networking
• Just for fun - another fun video from You Tube
• In the media in October
• Twitter
• Updated web site
• What Denise did last month 

Read more>>

July has been the busiest week of my life, every spare waking hour has been spent writing the manuscript for my third book. It was more challenging than I had expected, a few of the chapters cover the same subject as in my ‘how to get a job in a recession’ book so i needed to take a different approach. Other parts of the book were a real joy to write – going into a lot of detail on how to approach psychometric tests and the different assessment centre exercises, topics which had been only briefly covered in my first book.

The July newsletter is now available for you to download here

July 2009

Welcome to my newsletter and a big hello to the 51 new subscribers this month, This newsletter now goes to 1834 subscribers and I’m really pleased to have you all here.

June has been a lovely month for me, I went on holiday to Scotland and travelled around the Highlands. It was a very leisurely journey and I appreciated being able to stop and walk or take photos or just sit and look out at a Loch – we were blessed with some wonderful weather.

If you are one of my regular readers you will know how I cram so much into my life, so it was good to take time to sit and relax rather than get on with yet another task. So there have been less blog posts this month, but many more twitter ones, it’s so easy to write a short ‘tweet’.

Just before we went on holiday I contributed to a press release for GumTree on the importance of work experience, and I was phoned whilst on holiday for a radio interview with Smooth FM. The signal wasn’t great on my mobile but we spotted a red phone box so I did my interview from that, with my husband asking people outside if they could be quiet as I was doing a phone interview, a couple asked if I was famous, and I think Simon did say I was regularly on the radio!

In this months issue:

• Why you should sign up for Twitter
• How to get a job in a recession – the book
• Wellness Within, by special guest Lisa Esslemont
• and more

Read the whole newsletter here>>