As a career coach with nearly 20 years' experience, I have amassed some useful knowledge and quick tips which could help you get a job , keep a job, change jobs, retrain for a new career, get back on top after redundancy or illness, improve your work life balance
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Case Study: Career Change at 35: From Teaching to EdTech Sales
Sharpen your career narrative
Sharpening you career narrative is important in today’s economic turmoil
Tips for starting a new job brilliantly
Here are my top tips for starting a new job brilliantly
Staying put at work? Create a legacy while you’re there
An interesting new trend is emerging from the coaching I’m doing with clients in their 40’s around creating a legacy in the workplace.
Redundancy and liminality – are you betwixt and between?
During redundancy , or under notice or on gardening leaving, one is in a liminal phase
Get hired: imagine you’re already doing the job
At an interview visualise already being in a job to increase your changes of getting hired
Embracing radical career change
Radical career change is a leap of faith and a lot of action. here’s how to do it.
Learn the art of slow networking
Make your networking slow and meandering like a river
How to have a great retirement
Recently published book Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You interviews 120 professionals and tells the story of how they retired successfully
Curiosity and hard work: the keys to meaningful career change in an era of instant gratification
Career change is not a quick fix but the result of deep curiosity and hard work.
Simplify career change by taking a transition role to bridge the gap
Simplify career change by taking a transition role to bridge the gap
Continuers, adventurers, easy gliders, searchers, and retreaters - which one are you?
Retirement - are you a continuer, adventurer, easy glider, or a searcher?
Learn the power of “no” and how to stop people-pleasing
Learn the power of no and how to stop being a people pleaser
When career change is not just about you
Mid-career change can put pressure on others, not just you. Here are some tips to handle this
Mid-career crisis in early thirties
Mid-career crisis in the early 30’s is growing. This piece looks at why and offers advice on how to handle it.
Milestone birthdays and tips to manage the third stage of your career
Read my piece on reaching 60 and planning for pre-retirement and the the third-stage of the career
Returning to work after redundancy
Top tips on returning to work after redundancy
How to have a brilliant redundancy
Article shares my experience of working with people who have been made redundant and what I’ve learned that leads to having a successful redundancy.
How to pivot your career successfully
Career pivoting is increasingly common as we no longer have a job for life or even two jobs for life! Read my top tips on how to pivot successfully.
