Fairy Tales for Career Counsellors

This is aimed at career professionals but I think could also be useful for parents. But look at it anyway, it is beautifully presented   You can read the first edition via this link – http://issuu.com/lafrikanov/docs/fairytalescareercounsellors?e=0    

Setting Career Goals, part 2

In my last post I wrote about setting career goals. I said that a lot about achieving career goals is about what goes on in our head. I asked you to think about your career goal, or anything else that you want to achieve and to visualize your current situation and your desired goal and […]

Setting Career Goals, part 1

Setting Career Goals – How our thinking affects our action Many of you know of my weight loss journey, and despite numerous set backs I succeeded in losing 10 ½ stone in weight. But, as with so many others, I put weight back on. It drifted up and then I lost a few pounds but […]

Career Discovery Initiative

Introducing the career discovery initiative Imagine knowing yourself and knowing your perfect career. Imagine … So many people are unhappy in their work and know there must be something better out there, but what? There are so many possibilities and before making a major decision you need to do research and analysis. More people get […]

Take a break to be more effective

I’m back from a week away in Turkey, deciding to travel with just hand luggage and with a miserly 5kg allowance I needed to travel light, so no laptop and no work, and it was good. With technology it can be so easy to be ‘always on’ but I chose to only check emails once […]

What next after the public sector

  Should you start thinking of your future now? Headlines such as ‘1 in 10 public sector workers face axe’ (have caused unease and uncertainty in public sector employees, concerned they may be one of the 490,000 to lose their job. The CIPD put the figure higher. John Philpott said that public sector job cuts […]

Career guidance in the current economic climate

In times of recession, effective careers guidance can really make a difference in someone’s life. When a job seeker needs to be clear on what jobs are available, how they match up and learning how to convince an employer they are the best applicant they can try and do it alone but are likely to […]

The Perfect Career

  Many of my clients want help in finding the perfect career for them. They think that their dream job is out there and they just need to ask the right question or talk to the right person and perhaps like casting the runes or using Harry Potter’s talking hat the ideal job will be […]

New Year – new job or new perspective?

Early January, did you make resolutions – lose weight, stop smoking, learn a language, but already struggling? why is it so hard to make a success of this? Is one of your goals to get a new job?  Let’s talk through a structure to help you get the change you want in 2013. Review your […]