Job Interviews: How to give a great job interview presentation
Have you ever been asked to make a presentation to a prospective employer in a job interview? If so, ensuring your content is engaging, relevant and delivered to a professional standard is crucial – but also difficult and nerve-wracking. It can also make the difference between a job offer and rejection. To help you get…
Career Progression: Top 5 resources to help you manage your career journey
Staying on top of your career doesn’t need to be a chore. You also don’t need to wait until you’re made redundant or in between jobs to keep on track of it. Thanks to technology, there are some excellent tools at your fingertips that will make it easier for you to progress your career while…
Career Progression: How to plan your next career move in 6 easy steps
How to plan your next career move in 6 easy steps When was the last time you were really excited about your job? If you can’t remember, maybe it’s time to stop and rethink your career. Often, we end up in jobs and career paths because opportunities present themselves and it seemed like the right…
New world of work: Flex Careers: flexible work job platform
Despite the shift towards more flexibility in the workplace, flexible work options can still be daunting for candidates to bring up at the interview stage, for fear of missing out on a role. Yet job seekers are increasingly looking for flexibility, such as part-time work, working from home or different work hours, as technology and…
Career Progression: Changing careers
The 7 most important questions to ask yourself before a career change ‘Act in haste, repent at leisure’, as the saying goes – and for career changers, this could not be truer. A complete career change is a major undertaking involving large amounts of time, effort and commitment – and because we spend so much…
Career Progression: How to thrive in an uncertain job market?
If you’re in a job function, organisation or industry that is undergoing rapid transformation or disruption, you’ll know that some roles are quickly becoming outdated and even redundant. For some job functions, the writing is on the wall – whether it’s production-line manufacturing jobs that are being automated, print publishing sub-editors who are no longer…
Assessment: Do you have an unconscious bias in your recruitment?
Do you have an unconscious bias in your recruitment? Your brain contains some 100 billion neurons and its blood vessels and transport systems stretch some 100,000 miles. Yet when it comes to the brain as a decision-making tool, one Nobel Prize winner argues there are only two sides of the brain that matter. Daniel Kahneman,…
Leadership: Diversity in the workplace
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” So said Henry Ford on why he used his own initiative to develop the mass produced automobile – and the same logic can be applied to the issue of gender equity across organisations today. The reason Mr Ford didn’t ask…