Investing in your company’s website

This year saw 4 e.g. Consulting turn 5, 5 years of freelance, creating my own business and shifting my skillset.  Landmark or not, it instinctively prompted me to take moments throughout 2022 to pause and think about evolution.  What comes next? Let’s stop for a moment. Let’s take a look back, not self indulgently but … Read more

Coaching Series 1: What is it like to be coached?

When you read articles about Coaching, especially those about work performance, do you think that they have  made a massive presumption… that you know what coaching is! Even some coaching professionals across the performance spectrum struggle trying to encapsulate a concise and well researched thought out definition. What if, we take the view of the person being … Read more

Recruiter: what do you matter to your candidates?

What is our responsibility to our candidates? In the veritable trinity of hiring; hirer, candidate and stakeholder where does our ethical loyalties lie? Topic of a recent conversation where I and a fellow recruiting professional debated the impact we have on our each and every one of the candidates we engage with. This came about … Read more

Please tell me – Where is the care in career?

“1 application via their career’s website, 1 telephone interview, 3 interviews, 1 presentation & I didn’t get the job.  I asked for feedback to understand why better. They said yes, that was over 2 months ago and still nothing. It’s so frustrating you just hit a wall of silence.” “Applying for multiple jobs for brands … Read more

Blue Monday & not the New Order kind

Just as we have Cyber Monday and Black Friday the recent phenomenon of “Blue Monday” is just around the corner. I became more aware of this last year as it just so happened my partner’s birthday falling on this exact day. No wonder he didn’t feel like celebrating this year especially, what’s special about Mondays….right? … Read more