Personal Branding for career success

Branding has been used by companies since the 1940s as a way of attracting their ideal clients. More recently it is being used by individuals to manage their career and be successful in their ideal job opportunity. Always interested in new ways I can help my clients I trained as a Personal Branding Strategist in […]

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 […]

Be Clear On Your Goal

Before focusing on looking for a job, you need to be clear on what you want to do. Having a clear idea of the job you want means that every aspect of your job search is focused on achieving your objective. Do you know what you want to do? You need to identify a career […]

Get noticed! Advice from the career coach

How to raise your profile at work Too many people do a good job, but don’t let people know When you get some positive written feedback from others be sure to keep it, and circulate the feedback to more senior people. If you get verbal feedback, ask for it to be put in writing. Don’t […]

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 […]

Your LinkedIn profile needs focus when job hunting

Four steps to determine your LinkedIn profile focus when job hunting 1. Who am I? We have many strengths, we may be  good at many things but if we are job hunting we need to have a goal, a clear job that we are looking for. We then ensure that our LinkedIn profile is clearly […]

Career choice using the Highlands Ability Battery

Do you feel lost trying to make decisions about your career future? Many people seek help from a career psychologist because they don’t know what career path they should follow.  They’ve tried alone but have not really got anywhere.  They try Looking on jobsites which can lead to overwhelm, there are so many options; Talking […]

Career advice – should I leave my job?

Many people choose to move to a new job, and they move for different reasons. Some of them are drawn to the new job. It’s a promotion, it’s in their ideal field, closer to home, more money. But some others decide to leave for reasons to do with their current job.  They want to escape […]

Take Charge of your Professional Development

Professional development is important, to help us in our current job and ensure we meet our clients needs and demands. But we also want to keep an eye on the future and any career goals we may have. In some professions, CPD is mandatory. For example  as a psychologist I need to do a minimum […]

The Career Development Cycle

There used to be a typical career path that people would follow, with people joining a company and ‘working their way up’ the organisation over the years, but now people are changing careers more frequently, not always from choice, and more than ever people need to understand how to manage their own career. It’s important, […]