Career Management and Goals
Half Way Through the Year, For Effective Career Management, Time to Review Your Goals. Yesterday was midsummers day, the middle of the year. I only realised late last night reading my newspaper on my iPad. A bit late reading my newspaper as I was focused on work tasks yesterday. It got me thinking […]
Open University – part time study success
It's over 40 years since the first OU students became graduates … and thirty four years since I started studying with the Open University. It changed my life. I left grammar school in 1973 with 4 O levels and no idea of a career path. My father couldn't see the point of me studying beyond […]
The Reflective Practitioner
How often do you think about the work you do? Many years ago I worked in business improvement as part of my work as an Occupational Psychologist. It was something I thoroughly enjoyed and was good at! I’ve regularly considered how I work and how I can improve. Something may work well, but there is […]
Sharing knowedge – career coach reflects
Sharing Knowledge This was my very first blog post on this site, posted on February 7th, 2007. This was not my first blog, I’d been writing one on a separate site for a few years, and I’d started my newsletter back in 1999. Even The Rich and Famous Can HATE Their Job I read in […]
Denise Taylor on Radio Gloucestershire – Kate Clarke show
Last Saturday lunchtime, 28 April, I was on Radio Gloucestershire, chatting with Kate Clark on a wide range of topics including Where is your favourite place in Gloucestershire and why? I said it was the top of Cleeve Hill, after an exhilarating walk to the top you can see for miles. Cleeve Cloud is the […]
Diary of a career coach w/c 27 February 2012
Every now and again I keep a diary of how I spend my time. You can read last week’s diary here. Read on for this week’s diary Sunday I had to leave at team time as on Monday I’m on a full day training course in Maidstone and it was too far to travel on […]
Diary of a career coach
It’s a while since I’ve posted a diary of how I spend my week. Seeing clients is an important part of my work but there are many other tasks as well. Let me talk you through my last week. Sunday Sunday teatime I left for London. I work as a FastStream assessor and need to […]
How Safe Is Your Job – advice from the career coach
Back in 2008 I spent 2 days filming with ITV for The Tonight Programme. The focus was on helping people back into a job. It was very interesting to do the filming, I did a lot of work with the people filmed, both in person and behind the scenes, such as reviewing and improving their […]
Personal development – why go to conferences?
Expanding my knowledge is really important to me and I do this through formal training courses, guided reading, talking with others and my own research. Last week I went to the British Psychological Society Occupational Psychology conference. It’s been many years since I went to one of these. This is quite a formal conference, with […]
Winning Interview Answers is published in Chinese!
A note from my publisher that Winning Interview Answers has now been published in Chinese. There are a few pages in English, such as the CV examples, for example
