Recently back from a holiday and I got thinking about people’s approach to travel to the airport. I allow masses of time. I want to get through passport control and take time to relax. I usually book an airport lounge so I can have a couple of drinks and some food. Things normally work well, … Continued
This article is focused on Teenage Job Search; not everyone teenager wants to go to university. It can be hard to get a job without work experience, and this article on Teenage Job Search will help. It’s written for your teenager to read and action. Build evidence of your employability while studying. As a school student … Continued
I encourage my clients to send a thank you message shortly after the interview. In the past you could post a letter but in a time critical situation you want to get it sent by email. Prep in advance and there is likely to just be one section to add in. Of course, you will … Continued
Something I’d considered in the past was a comedy improv course. Remember the TV programme, Whose Line Is It Anyway? There isn’t a script and you need to respond quickly to what other people say. I like to learn new things, being open to new experiences is part of who I am – I see … Continued
I love to write, I love to capture the personality and voice of my clients. Creating LinkedIn profiles is one way I help clients. I’ve done extensive training and keep up to date via continual training and having to recertify each year. Recently I thought that a static page was not enough. So yesterday I … Continued
Replying to job ads – generally, there are 2 ways that people reply to job ads. Mainly they will pull out highlights from their background and send a generic cover letter to all job applications. The other way when replying to job ads is to take a diligent approach to showing how well you match … Continued
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” Seth Godin This resonates with me. Now single, I look back on the last 10 years, where holidays had crept up to 2-3 months a year. The planning and experience helped me to deal … Continued
One of my colleagues, Rob Frazer, has moved from working with adults to working in the NHS as a child psychotherapist. One of his favourite Freud quotes he tells his adult clients is ‘Unexpressed emotions never die – they are buried alive and come forth later in uglier ways’. He needed to find a way … Continued
You want to change jobs. You want to do something different, but your CV lacks experience. How will you get shortlisted? When one of my clients wants to make a career move, they firstly do as much research as they can online. They find out all that is available via the internet and they schedule … Continued
Application Tracking Systems (ATS) have been used for years, and I wrote about this in 2013, see the article here and revised below. What most people don’t know is that now there are many different systems – 200+ and that how they work has changed, originally they were designed to read documents like a scanner, … Continued