Career Advice you didn’t get taught at School

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The career advice you didn’t get taught at school. It has -at the time of writing- been 13 years since I was at school, and it is only later in life you acknowledge how small a part of life school plays, but at the time it quite literally is your whole world.

While the national curriculum might still be questionable as to how much of it you’ll actually need in the real world, your teachers spend a lot of time trying to prepare you for the world of work and plug in career advice where they can. However, what you are told and what you experience in the workplace and further education can be quite different.

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One Job Mistake – Five Things to Learn when a Job doesn’t Work Out

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In the life time of a person’s career, they will experience at least one job mistake, a wrong move, have a blip… but that’s okay, here’s why-

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Channel your inner Gwyneth Paltrow: how to consciously uncouple from your place of work

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Gwyneth Paltrow is not somebody I particularly rate but I don’t mean that disrespectfully. We all laughed when she named her daughter Apple, and then we laughed some more when she referred to her divorce from Chris Martin as ‘consciously uncoupling’.

But then we thought, maybe she is on to something and actually, there is a way to adopt a better attitude to things, situations, and people we no longer feel the same for. A way to consciously uncouple.

So today I am asking you to channel your inner Gwyneth Paltrow and to let me tell you how to consciously uncouple from your place of work. Why? Because even though you’ve made the decision to leave because a few things have soured, or you have got bored etc. it’s important not to burn your bridges because you never know if down the line you may need them again, or them, you.

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Interview Anxiety: reasons why an interview is stressful for someone with anxiety

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Interview anxiety is something so many people suffer with. At various points in life, you will recognise that change is on the horizon and it is time to get a new job. If only one could get a job from your credentials on paper alone, eh?

But there has been a gap until now identifying the reasons why an interview is stressful for someone with anxiety, and about applying those interview tips and advice I have shared previously, to somebody with anxiety… somebody just like me.

Rightly or wrongly, I go into an interview and treat it like a performance, a display of my best self demonstrating my personality and my capability for the role I am in contention for.

The fact that my interview anxiety is going mad behind the scenes and I am a ball of insecurity on the inside shouldn’t prevent me from getting the role. And it shouldn’t be the same for you either.

Interview Anxiety: Reasons why it is stressful for someone with anxiety

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How to Get a New Job & Recognising the Need for Change

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How to get a new job: I think it’s important to acknowledge that not all recognition for change means a change of role and/or workplace, sometimes solutions can be suggested and found internally.

However, sometimes even with the best intentions at heart, trying to enforce change within a workplace and/or team proves too challenging and the change you seek can only come from acknowledging it’s time to move on elsewhere.

Part One: Recognising the Need for Change

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