Job interview success – how to get those offers!
Posted on 4:13pm, 19th May 2010 • 2 Comments
Achieve job interview success by preparing properly for your interview. Most candidates don’t (they haven’t been taught how) though job interview success depends on it. The right way to prepare for an interview isn’t to exhaustively rehearse answers to the questions you expect to be asked nor to “research” potential employers by quickly flicking through [...]
Career retraining on a tight budget
Posted on 5:03pm, 5th May 2010 • No Comments
Lots of us are looking into career retraining right now, either because we’re worried about our jobs or yearning to find something more challenging and exciting to do. So how do you get the most career retraining “bang for your bucks”?
Outplacement support needs a human face
Posted on 12:13pm, 30th April 2010 • 1 Comment
You’ll provide an outplacement support programme for the shell-shocked human being facing you who’s just been told the company no longer needs her …What sort of help does she need; and how affordable will it be? These issues are at the heart of competing views on what’s the right way to deliver outplacement support services.
Outplacement services key to economic recovery
Posted on 4:23pm, 24th April 2010 • No Comments
A recent outplacement services project showed how terrifyingly close many people are to financial disaster even before they lose their jobs. Newly redundant workers in tears explained
Interim manager job? Search – how?
Posted on 9:14pm, 19th April 2010 • No Comments
You’re thinking about interim manager job search because an interim post is the best way to progress your career at the moment … or perhaps you hope to spend the rest of your working life as an interim manager. Either way, you need to know how to mount an effective interim manager job search.
Career moves strategy for managing your career better
Posted on 4:13pm, 14th April 2010 • No Comments
Planning your future career moves is your responsibility because no-one else will take as much interest in your progress and job satisfaction. Why should your manager or HR dept care
Made redundant? If you followed this plan, you’ll be back at work faster
Posted on 11:58am, 5th April 2010 • 1 Comment
You manage potential workplace risks by planning ahead, so always have a plan in place to protect you against the risk of being made redundant. In every job you legitimately have access to so much of the information that would be gold dust to you if you were made redundant.
Graduate careers advice should get real!
Posted on 11:26pm, 1st April 2010 • 1 Comment
As an experienced careers counsellor and the veteran of earlier, equally horrendous recessions, I think we should be offering graduate careers advice that’s more realistic and better tailored to the circumstances grads find themselves in. Today’s graduate careers advice
Changing career then and now
Posted on 11:56am, 30th March 2010 • 1 Comment
Daniel Defoe (best known as the author of Robinson Crusoe) could teach us all about the art of changing career and portfolio working. Born in 1660, he was a soldier, sailor and journalist, bred civet cats, smuggled tin into France, managed a brick factory and was a spy for a while too! Of course, he [...]
Staff recruitment, retention and management case study: winning ideas for any employer
Posted on 8:57pm, 16th March 2010 • No Comments
See whether you could use these ideas as successfully in your workplace …. At the start of their programme, Leicester City Council’s Home Care Service (HCS) had the same awful recruitment and retention problems as their counterparts in other local authorities. People need people (a UK-wide report produced by the Audit Commission and Social Services [...]