Helping you to be your best
There is just a lot of information and advice around CV’s – ideas and tips as to how they should look and what is important to include. From my desk, I would just like to add in a few pointers: CV’s are abit like fashion. Views on how they ‘should’ look change quite regularly. […]
I think that it is the mindset – the approach – to writing the personal statement that is the great starting point and actually imperative if you are going to connect successfully. Approaching it with intention, gusto, and excitement to write effectively and well is important – because the task is important. If you are […]
It is after each run that I have with this wonderful group of friends, that just sets me up so well for my day. We call ourselves the ‘joyous plodders’. We meet very regularly, at the same place at the same time – early mornings. And we plod, shuffle, run and walk. We might chat […]
This is just another reminder to nudge you to start noticing the words that you use when talking about your life, your work, a particular situation. Are these words becoming so habitual that they are making a situation stagnate, because that is how you are constantly describing it. I know about this, because I do […]
Interviews are really just conversations, chats, with the purpose of getting to know you much better than what the paperwork presents. Whatever stage you are at with your interviews (school to work) the more you are able to open up and give detail to your answers, the greater the depth of the picture you […]
When our minds are so full of stormy chaos, how can we best walk through this into calm and clarity? This we do by stepping away from the drama! Why is it that we so easily get caught up in the mayhem and confusion during times that are stressful. We have decisions to make, dilemma’s […]
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day and with this I thought that I would just think of all things that make me feel joyful, happy and deeply appreciative. This years Valentine’s Day, for me, was such an ordinary day and this was much because I am based in the Somerset countryside and not really paying attention […]
It makes such a difference to our young and their friends if we can connect them with people who can offer a useful listening ear and insight into the field that they are applying to for work. I hope too that those looking for work will reach out to their contemporaries, giving them leads and […]
I have these kinds of days. I am overcome with that panicked feeling and a sense that I am not doing ‘anything’ – and not able to do anything. Despite being in the ‘business’ of tips and tricks for keeping those feelings at bay, I still have to manage the overwhelm myself. When in this […]
Gosh – where do I start! I am in the business of guidance (and sometimes offering advice and ideas), and yet I am always aware that what I am telling others is exactly what I need to be be doing myself! I have always been curious as to what makes friends tick and as to […]