Career
The Brilliant Career Choice You’ve Never Considered
If I had a dollar for every person I met who dreamed of being a recruitment consultant when they were a kid… I’d have zero dollars. People don’t plan to get into recruitment. There’s no university degree to prepare you for the job. The careers lady at...
The New Black In Career Management
Heed this critical lesson from Johann, a young truffle farmer from Provence, if you are to safe-guard your career. Ignore it at your peril. Embrace it and thrive. Johann was energised: “I quit banking to run my 90 year old grandfather’s farm. I am his sole heir, and...
Big, Fat Mistakes: Your Biggest Career Asset
I encourage you, please, to make mistakes. Here’s the twist. I only want you to make a very specific style of mistake - the sort smart people make. A friend of mine was inspiringly positive after deciding to embark on a new phase of his career. I...
Are You An E-mail E-diot?
It seems the more ways they invent for us to communicate, the worse we become at it. Email is pretty old-school these days (smart companies are replacing it, internally at least, with Slack and other social communication chat-type tools), but I am still constantly amazed and...
Fast-Track Your Career With These 3 Vital Ingredients
The answer to building career success is simple. Well, in my view anyway. Let’s see if you agree. I share this perspective from a knowledge bank of 30 years of ‘in the trenches’ experience; of hiring, mentoring, and coaching thousands, of building, buying, merging and closing...
Don’t Get Emotional When You Read This
I received an email from a colleague a while back that I would describe as brutal. Blistering, even. Anger oozed out of it. Accusations abounded. My heart sank. Because I knew what would happen next. And it saddened me. I once worked with a very wise man, Paul...
Want To Nail Your Next Interview? Here’s What NOT To Do
There are a heap of interviewing ‘how to’ guides out there, but for today’s post, I thought I’d cut to the chase. If we’re brutally honest, there are a few mistakes people make in interviews that spell immediate doom. A poll around the office narrowed it down...
10 Golden Rules Of Communication For Leaders
Communicating the vision, communicating change, communicating expectations – these are subtle leadership skills, which I don’t think any of us truly master. However, developing these skills is fundamental to our success. Particularly today, when so many employees have so much choice, engaging people with the company’s...