Learning lessons from our career change history
Why is it that despite great intentions and well-laid plans, we so often swap one unsatisfying job for another one just like it?
If you’re looking forward to making a genuine career change, I suggest you begin by looking back at your motivation and your methods.
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3 calming moves to disarm your career change demons
If your career change efforts are dogged by confidence crunching rants from your inner demons – you’re not alone.
Let these monologues go unchecked and your carefully rehearsed peak performance can fall completely flat.
Here is what I recommend to help calm your demons when they start giving you the job seeking jitters.
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Take three – theatrical tips for stellar resumes and interviews
Despite the similarities, we don’t usually approach job applications as a form of performance art. In fact, winning any kind of role – vocational or theatrical, depends in large part (pun intended) on honing a set of wow worthy auditioning skills.
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Six refreshing reads for career changers
Five books that span over three decade’s worth of practical, inspirational writing on how to manage career and other change with skill, self-awareness and grit.
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7 videos with career change advice that makes perfect sense
If your next career step is proving illusive at least for the moment, these six pieces of randomly ordered, somewhat contradictory advice from a variety of videos may help.
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5 slightly surprising ways to enhance your interview performance
Ever felt that your interview performance just cost you your dream job?
If you’re looking to add oomph to your interview performance these five strategies may help.
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Reroute a negative thought train before it derails your day
How to manage random irritations that you derail your day. Anything from spilling coffee on my new white shirt, getting cut off in traffic, arriving late to a meeting, a casual or calculated critical remark from a colleague.
Here are some of my favourite ways to stop tricky moments turning into difficult days.
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Mind your balance - making the most of The Wheel of Life
The Wheel Of Life is a much-loved coaching tool. I use it often to check for gaps and overload in key areas in my life. My career and entrepreneur coaching clients also find it really useful for recalibrating their personal and professional balance.
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Seven grounding lessons I learned from starting my business
I’m keen to share what I’ve learnt about what’s involved in getting a business up and running, and transitioning from office life to solo business adventure.
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4 astute moves for smooth career changes
Milton Gan always knew he’d run his own business. In 2012, this thirty something ad man swapped a seventeen-year career in media and marketing for his flourishing full time business as a wedding photographer.
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Making sense of Myers Briggs
I’m intrigued by personality profiling tools designed to help unravel and map the mystery of who I am. Among the many useful tools I use with my career coaching clients, I’ve found the Myers Briggs Type indicator both insightful and practical.
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5 exploratory moves for intrepid career changers
5 exploratory moves designed to reduce your stress and increase your creativity as you embark on your career change journey.
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3 ways to make healthy comparisons
Comparisons can be brilliant motivators, highlighting or reflecting your strengths and aspirations. However, if comparisons usually leave you feeling ’worse off, worse at and worse than’ pretty much everyone, perhaps its time to change the way you make them.
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Putting your strengths to work
The Values in Action (VIA) Survey of Character Strengths is a simple, practical self-assessment that identifies and ranks your core characteristics and strengths. It is one of my favourite tools and I’ve seen many clients use it to create positive changes in their own and others lives.
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Finding your feet after failure
‘Fall down 7 times stand up 8’ - this pithy Japanese proverb ‘Nana korobi ya oki’ invites us to practice resilience and self-belief. It advocates responding courageously to failure but it falls short of forecasting the outcome.
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