Category Archives: Executive Career Management & Development

SHOULD MENTORS BE FINANCIALLY COMPENSATED?

September 1, 2010 – 1:45 pm

On the Compensation Café blog they have a very valid yet provocative post titled ‘Why are Mentors Worthless?’ Having participated in a few mentoring programs – both as a mentee and a mentor – this post by Jim Brennan really got me thinking as I had not even considered this fact before. Through his research [...]

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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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Incorporating the CV into Staff Management

July 21, 2010 – 3:02 pm

Incorporating the CV into Staff Management may just help both you and your staff get what you want “If you cannot say why you made your company a better place, you’re out.” I am half way through reading Tom Peters’ brilliant book, ‘The Tom Peters Seminar  – Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organisations’ and really [...]

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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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Do Line Managers Need More Training? HR Thinks So

July 7, 2010 – 3:09 pm

In this month’s HR Leader magazine, an article has been run that says ‘HR wants compulsory training for line managers’.  According to a recent survey by XpertHR, 8 out of 10 HR people think management training is a must. Why? Because the majority of HR people surveyed did not rate line managers’ skills in their [...]

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