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A career without frontiers

Imagine, if you will, a career without frontiers. You can go anywhere, do anything, work for anyone. Your only limit is your ambition, your drive, your imagination. Globalisation is as much about the movement of people as it is global … Continue reading

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Bounce-back-ability Rory McIlroy Style!

“Bounce-back-ability” is a phrase I love. Nowhere was that phrase epitomized more keenly this weekend than by Rory McIlroy. Huge congratulations to a young man who yesterday became won his first golfing major at the age of 22, becoming the … Continue reading

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CEO’s engage your people

The gap between rich and poor, the perceived “haves and have-nots” is getting wider. In the UK the impact of the global financial crisis saw predictions of catastrophic unemployment that failed to materialise to the extent anticipated. Why? People pulled … Continue reading

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Location, Location, Location

When considering your career choices, where does location figure on the list of importance for you? For many it is a serious consideration, for a whole host of reasons. What about if you are thinking of starting a business? Location … Continue reading

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Careers Advice – Who’s your role model?

There is much to be learned from those with whom we work. Study those in your workplace, what do they do well, what do they do badly? What works, what gets results, what delivers success? How do they interact with … Continue reading

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You can’t poke, tweet or email a handshake

Never a truer adage when looking for a job not what but who you know.  Your network is key to a successful job search strategy.   Growing your network has never been easier.   Social media has taken care of … Continue reading

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No regrets

What is failure?  Among the dictionary definitions can be found the following ; “non – performance of something due, required or expected”. If you want to make a change, if you need to make a change, consider this.  The failure … Continue reading

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You are who you are, not what you do.

You weren’t born a Teacher, Accountant, Engineer, Nurse, Doctor, Banker.  You became one.  If you don’t like what you do, change it.  Easier to say than to do, but it can be done.  It is not impossible.  The only thing … Continue reading

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Strike a pose with your CV

Standing out from the crowd with your CV is incredibly difficult to do.  As I have said on many occasions in this blog the best way to put your CV together divides opinion.  There are lots of them.  Today’s Google … Continue reading

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Never knowingly underdressed

A couple of articles over the weekend focused on the decline of the business suit.  One such article on the BBC website highlighted a recent poll of 2,000 British workers by online bank First Direct that “found that only one in … Continue reading

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