Do you ever feel like you have lots of contact names from networking, your current job, and life in general, but you don’t know how to use them properly? It can be difficult to think of ways to approach contacts, or to even know what you want to approach them for. The chief thing for...Read More

“The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have more successes than failures” Jack Canfield In my last career blog I spoke about identifying your added value and recognising your transferable skills and how these skills are what make you marketable, providing...Read More

For any online application, we must assume that you are going to have between 20 and 40 seconds of the reader’s attention from the moment they start reading your email, click through to your attached CV and get to the bottom of your CV. The email cover letter, therefore, needs to be short and punchy....Read More

Not all body language is universal. There are differences in the way that men and women communicate. Body language is often confused between genders. In order to prevent miscommunications, it is important to understand the signals that are common to most people as well as the different signals that men and women communicate with their...Read More

We are constantly reading the body language of others, even when we are not aware of it. Actively reading body language, however, will provide valuable insight and improve communication. Pay attention to the positions and movements of people around you. Specifically their head positions, physical gestures, and eyes. Head Position The head is an obvious...Read More

Do you ever dream of heading off on holiday and never coming back? Life can easily slip away one day at a time … so your summer break is an ideal time to take stock of where you are and how far … or how little … you have travelled since this time last year....Read More

It’s said that a picture paints a thousand words. In the over saturated content streams of your social media feeds it is the easiest tactic that you can use to cut through the noise and actually get yourself and your business noticed. Producing professional-looking images that look great online used to be difficult, but not...Read More

It is vital that you regularly take time out to assess your career. I recommend performing a career assessment at least twice a year, more frequently if possible. A career assessment gives you the opportunity to identify the gap between where you are currently in your career and where you want to be.   It also...Read More

According to Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, one of the key factors that is vital for anyone to achieve their goals, is persistence. It is easy to be motivated and get things done when you are excited, however when faced with an obstacle or challenge, that same excitement can quickly fade. When...Read More

“Your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room” Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon Whether we recognise it or not, we already have our own personal brand and we all impact other people’s brands by the conversations that we have about them when they are not with us. Do...Read More