Latest Insights: Your Career

Post Monday Blues? You are not alone in wanting to make big changes to your professional and personal life through ‘resetting’ your career. Amazingly, according to recent reports, over 30% of us did so last year and 30% are planning to do so in the next five years. It could be making a major career change to a more rewarding role, setting up a new business or turning that hobby of yours into a money-making venture. In other words, taking control of your life and the way you l

It’s January, that time of year when many people returning to work after the festivities take a look at their career and life and decide it is time to do something. The world can seem a little drab in January, as well as cold, so it could be a good time for you to reflect on your career to date, your current role and employer and think about what you want from the future. Whether you want to stay where you are, look for promotion, seek new challenges or move on, there is plen

Enhance your Profile when Job Searching Your LinkedIn Profile can be a shop window to the world with incredible reach to the sectors and areas you are interested in when job searching. It allows you to both subtly and discreetly let your contacts know you are looking , as well as announce to the world you are on the market. Recruiters (and AI bots) use LinkedIn to find possible candidates for their vacancies using keyword search in the paid for modules that they use, such as

In order to ensure that your job search is a success and that you find the dream role you are looking for, you need to create your own Personal Marketing Plan and Toolkit . Don't know where to start? Here are the key steps to help you get started: Ideally you should try to complete or start each step before you start actively looking for a new role. Much of what you need to do, you may already have done, such as preparing your CV and deciding what you want to do, but it a goo

Starting your Job Search With the market as it is today – with so much information and sources of advice out there – you must be focused on your job search and ensure that you take all the necessary steps to make it happen whilst covering all the bases. If you are currently between roles, then you should treat finding a new job as a full-time job. If you have been made redundant for example, it may be tempting to take 3-12 months off and then look for a job; however, if you g

Where have all the jobs gone? I have always assumed that (historically) there are around 1million job vacancies available at any one time, both those advertised and those not, as well as those where the employer will take someone on who will add to their business, but it was not a formal vacancy. This is not the full picture, however. In my forty odd years in the employment and career business I have been through 5 or 6 ‘sticky’ periods (recessions) during which doom and gloo

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September is traditionally the start of the busiest recruitment period, when people come back from holiday and decide they need a change....