In order to completely eliminate bad time management habits and stop wasting precious time today, consider developing a routine that will help you avoid wasting time. Things that we feel like reacting to such as: phone calls, emails, news stories, text, etc. are known as urgent tasks. According to Brett McKay, “Important tasks contribute to...Read More

Here are 10 top tips on facilitating and managing a meeting. Whether it is a board meeting or team meeting, these 10 tips are excellent in ensuring your meeting is being led the right way and you deliver the outcome you planned. 1) Paraphrase what a participant has said so that he or she feels...Read More

Careers are getting bumpier. The speed of change in most organizations makes the traditional career pathways less obvious and sometimes blocked. Many people in employment have experienced tough times when, through organizational change, they have been side-lined, they’ve ended up with a boss they couldn’t work with, they’ve had their job reduced and possibly they’ve...Read More

How do you feel about networking? The kind where you purposely attend events with the goal of meeting new people. Love it? Hate it? Somewhere in-between? In life in general, women typically have more expansive networks than men. Yet, in the working world, networking events are typically dominated by men. This may be because women...Read More

Nisa Chitakasem, co-Founder of career consulting company www.positionignition.com, shares ten top tips for using Twitter effectively in your job search, taken from their latest eBook 125 Twitter Job Search Tips… When you first sign up to Twitter, you’re guided through the initial stages by a short tutorial. It prompts you to follow a few ‘Twitter...Read More

By Nisa Chitakasem, Founder of Position Ignition, the UK’s leading Career Consulting Company and co-author of their 125 LinkedIn Job Search Tips eBook. If you’re changing careers, professional social network LinkedIn can be a valuable tool. Here you’ll find companies, employers, recruiters, headhunters, networkers and professionals all related to your desired career field. Make the...Read More

Imagine this – you are seeking promotion and at a business event you happen to meet just the right person at just the right moment. Unbeknown to you, this person is looking for a professional HR manager/consultant/director, which is at the forefront of their mind. You start up a conversation that is perfect in tone,...Read More

You’ve woken up one morning, stretched and said “I’ve had enough – my career has got to change”. If this is you, then I have ten things to say that will change your life forever – and within 3 months. If you want to learn the real secrets to short cutting your way to a...Read More

To gain the most from being a homeworker you will need to engage in the complexity of how to network from home. Create a process that works for you. Consider the list of distant communication tools here for you to use: Group conference telephone calls Personal telephone calls MSM Emails Stuff in post The internet...Read More

Reflect Analyse where you’re at with your career and how you feel about it. If you find yourself thinking, “Why am I here, doing what I’m doing when this clearly doesn’t suit me? My relationship with this job is purely a means to an end. This is not what I thought I wanted for my...Read More