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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!

 
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Quote of the Month

Work like you don't need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching.

Satchel Paige

My second book - Winning Interview answers for first time job hunters is now at the production stage, so I'm waiting to see if the copy editor has any queries. I'm also a good half way through the third book - Now you've been shortlisted.

I'm delighted to have a special guest contributor this month, Wellness within by Lisa Esslemont. I'ts a useful reminder to me of having a balanced life, and once my third book is completed I'll be moving to a 4 day working week.

In the meantime, my diary is now full with my current clients and my writing so all new clients are being booked in for August and first week is already quite full, just a warning that it's hard to get an appointment at short notice at the moment.

In this months issue:

I look forward to talking to you again next time.

Kindest regards,


Article 1: Why you should sign up with Twitter

 

twitter imageI'd like to encourage you to follow me on Twitter, or at least to bookmark my twitter page. I'm finding lots of interesting links for jon hunters and this will be the best place to access them.

you can find my twitter page at: http://twitter.com/amazingpeople

Here's an example of a tweet that you might find helpful

The 10 commandments for job seekers on Twitter: http://bit.ly/hFFFm some good stuff here!

There's plenty more on The Glass Ceiling, Generation Y, Postive Thinking and more.

From Twitter you can find people you want to follow including Stephen Fry, Sarah Brown, Demi Moore, and also people working in the industry you want to work in or people who will comment on things that can help raise your awareness in new areas.

 


How to get a job in a recession - The Book

book cover

If you are job hunting, this book will guide you through everythng you need to do and given you guidance on CV writing, interview coaching and more.

'Denise tells it how it is. In a simple straightforward format Denise leads you through the many routes to job search and highlights the potential pitfalls. If you follow her 28 day plan, you will be able to focus your search, make real progress and maintain high levels of motivation. Great book, one I now recommend to my own career coaching clients'. Jane Child, Coach, Career Changes

Subscriber offer

Buy the book and get all the forms included in the book as a downloadable PDF for free, You just need to forward me your Amazon receipt. Worth £6. The workbook means you don’t need to write in your book, and you can print out as many copies of each form as you need.


Article 2: Wellness Within, by Special Guest Lisa Esslemont

diagramNew beginnings are often a time to reassess our health and wellness ~ and this is particularly important for all you busy people out there.  Wellness, in ourselves and in our clients, provides a key foundation for successful coaching.

I believe that most of what makes up our wellness is hidden within; lost in our daily challenges, deadlines and demands.  Do you often say “I wish” and yet you don’t make the time for that wish to come true?  Do you feel your life or work is not how you want it to be and yet you are so busy getting through the day, you push those feelings aside?  Do you have energy for the things you really want to do or are you unsure how to move from your current norm to being able to fulfil your wish list?

The Wellness Within programme brings your wish list alive!  This fresh, easy approach helps you identify your own wellness comfort zone; implementing action and change where you feels it is needed most.  Through a thought provoking self-assessment and fun tools, you set your own goals; identifying the areas you may need some help with, and create your own Wellness Action Plan!

So given today’s hectic lifestyle, how do you implement this plan and make real change?  Firstly, let’s start with the basics.  We start life as a single cell and it’s amazing what nature creates.  You may not think of this on a daily basis, yet it is at this level that life requires nurturing.  Your body is a powerful self regenerating organism; and, as with all growing things, it depends on healthy lifestyle habits to maintain its physical and mental health.  The triangle of Mind, Body and Spirit are inseparable factors of our existence; each sustaining us in different ways.  Using the latest knowledge and good practice in nutrition therapy, counselling and coaching, the Wellness Within program looks at the influences in your life and how you choose to nurture them.  It’s not about going to the gym five times a week or living on carrot juice ~ there are many more influences that make up your Wellness Within such as wholeness, energy, luxuries, and spirituality to name a few. Your journey to wellness requires awareness, discovery, action, change, nurture and practice.  By re-evaluating how you spend your time and energy, your overall health and quality of life will benefit. This program helps you listen to your inner thoughts, bringing them alive to promote your healthy Mind, Body and Spirit.

New Beginning, new wellness, new you!  A healthy start for a strong foundation from which to serve you and your coaching clients.

Lisa Esslemont is Owner of soVirtual (www.sovirtual.co.uk) where she provides Wellness Coaching, Lifestyle Management and Business Management Services. She can be contacted via email: lisa@sovirtual.co.uk.


In the Media in June

  • The Challenge of Career Guidance in a Recession, Career Guidance Today, June 2009 page 1 and page 2
  • www.jobsite.co.uk Expert Top tips, How to get a job in a recession, June 2009
  • Graduate Prospects - Don't give up now, 3 June 2009
  • 25 June - Radio Gloucestershire, Talking about festivals
  • 16 June - Radio Gloucestershire - Discussing Emotions (in relation to Brief Encounter)
  • 12 June - Smooth Radio - The importance of work experience when job hunting
  • 4 June - Radio Gloucestershire - Discussing The Apprentice Show

What Denise did last month

  • Undertook 17 client sessions, including CV rewriting, job search support, assessment centre coaching and psychometric feedback
  • Wrote 21 entries on my blog
  • Wrote lots of Tweets
  • Travelled in The Highlands oof Scotland and walked along Hadrian's Wall
  • Rockness Festival- highlights Orbital, The Prodigy, Super Furry Animals, Placebo and dancing to David Guetta in the rain
  • Pendulum in Wolverhampton, their warm up gig, the night before Glastonbury - very hot and sweaty but amazing - the cover of Calvin Harris's I'm not alone sent shivers down my spine"
  • Neil Young in Hyde Park - the sudden realisation it was Paul McCartney that joined him for the encore was something I'll never forget
  • Helped 3 journalists with articles, including for a student magazine and on how Fred Godwin would search for a new job, with his pension I couldn't treat that one seriously.

In the Blog

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Here's a selection from what was on the Blog in June

  1. Feedback on the Highlands Ability Battery
  2. The challenge of career guidance in a recession
  3. Neil Young in Hyde Park, A day in the life with Paul McCartney
  4. An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots … a weekend reflection from the career coach
  5. Are job references useless? Have they ever been helpful?
  6. Expert Top Tips: How to Get a Job in a Recession
  7. Don’t lie on your CV - read what happened to Mhairi
  8. Outsmart the Recession and keep ahead of the game - OU MBA weekend
  9. People are most confident in their careers at age 37, according to a Standard Life Survey
  10. How losing your job affects you if you are over 55
  11. How losing your job affects you if you are 46-55, part of Baby-boomers
  12. Major Phil Packer - an inspiration to us all
  13. How losing your job affects you if you are 18-29, part of Generation Y
  14. How losing your job affects you if you are 30-45, part of Generation X
  15. Men bear the brunt of job losses
  16. The Apprentice - the movies
  17. How to seize the day - a few thoughts for the weekend
  18. Wanting to change careers is not enough


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