Category Archives: Career Services & Advice

HOW HAS THE JOB & CAREERS LANDSCAPE CHANGED?

September 1, 2010 – 1:50 pm

What does this mean for you as a job seeker? Career Success Radio asks these questions amongst others to those involved in the employment and social media space across the globe. In this special 2 year birthday special Career Success Radio looks at where things are currently at in relation to employment in the UK, [...]

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Why “Job Seeking” Is Not the Right Approach

August 25, 2010 – 4:19 pm

Are you job-seeking right now? Perhaps you should be out marketing and selling yourself – it is far more empowering! I have recently come to have issues with the term “job seeking”. The reason being is it’s not empowering to be seeking new employment. Seeking implies that you are out there trying – you may [...]

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Are you in a job that’s making you miserable?

August 19, 2010 – 11:32 pm

It’s time to move on … On the Great Leadership blog a little while back there was a post that resonated with me: Don’t settle for a job that’s making you miserable. It got me thinking about so many career clients I have worked with who were miserable in their current roles and who had [...]

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Have you Considered Job Sharing?

August 12, 2010 – 11:59 am

Job sharing is where one full-time position is shared by two or more persons attending work at different times, usually with pay and benefits divided proportionately according to their attendance schedule. The job-sharing facility as an employee or as a contractor is now an established one in many industries. There is greater acceptance of diverse [...]

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Ten Career Options to Consider

August 10, 2010 – 8:45 am

Success in today’s world of work requires appropriate attitudes and thorough awareness of your employment environment. To these two, you need to add a self-honest but not too modest assessment of your skills, expertise (i.e. knowledge), interpersonal abilities and what factors make up job satisfaction for the uniqueness of you. As you journey through life [...]

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Is your partner stopping you from having the job or career you want?

August 5, 2010 – 1:18 pm

There are many things that stop of us from pursuing the job or career that we really want, including fear of failure, fear of success, loss of income and personal status. One of the greatest blockers to actually going out there and having a satisfying career can be our “significant others”, of which partners hold [...]

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Portfolio Careers – What do employers think? Is it a career breaker?

July 21, 2010 – 3:12 pm

Increasingly, I am coming across more and more professionals of various ages who have portfolio careers, which is essentially restructuring your work differently to that of a traditional one job with the one employer. Portfolio careers are not simply for those transitioning into retirement. Often they are now for those wanting to design a more [...]

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How Pleasing Is Your Personality?

July 14, 2010 – 1:26 pm

The more pleasing it is the more likely success will follow … Anthill recently ran an intriguing article by Joshua Moore ‘The law of success: Lesson 10 – Moulding a pleasing personality‘. The article explores finding the right balance between self-promotion and taking an interest in what others do that you meet and work with.  [...]

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Six Figures – Professional Career Coaches

June 23, 2010 – 9:48 pm

Career Lacking Direction? Looking for a Job or Career Change? Six Figures has experienced career coaches whose focus is on professionals and executives like yourself. A few of our coaches include; – Mary Grech has extensive experience in dealing with a diverse range of clientele. Her professional career has encompassed career counselling and coaching of [...]

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What is in and out for Resumes in 2010?

June 16, 2010 – 2:56 pm

How to write the perfect resume is something that we all want to know.  Good resume writing is certainly a skill and something that does not come naturally to most of us. There are articles everywhere on how to write good resumes, including Six Figures with a section of resources to assist on the subject [...]

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