Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive
The fabulous Rumer and Jools Holland singing the unofficial theme tune for The Dream Job Coach and Dream Job Seekers everywhere! What\’s your \”theme tune?\”
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Career Coaching
One year ago!
Last Thursday was a day loaded with irony. One year to the day that I got up at 5am to write a letter that would change my life, I found myself working from 8am – 8pm and ending up at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, chatting to some of my dear ex-colleagues at DFS! Did I plan
Look Up! (In praise of boredom!)
Did you see the \”Look Up\” video that\’s been doing the rounds on Facebook this week? Here\’s a chance to watch it, if you didn\’t get the chance yet! It\’s a great piece of work and a very useful and timely reminder that our lives will not be full if we live them online. Why
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Speed Up Your Dream Job Search on Social Media!
“What if I never find my dream job?” A few years ago, moaning about your current situation and how difficult it was to find any job was understandable. There was high unemployment, the country was hit by recession and jobs were hard to come by. You had to be resourceful! If you didn’t bother buying
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Social Media Networking
Our profiles on various social media can help or hinder our job searches. Large, sophisticated companies may well be trawling LinkedIn looking for talent and we’d be well advised to ensure that our profile is looking professional and to include keywords that relate to the opportunities we want to attract. However, smaller businesses are, thankfully,
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Your CV, Easy as 123…
320 applicants for 10 jobs at my local Tesco Express store. With such huge competition for even “unskilled” work, how do you stand out from the crowd and even get an interview, let alone a job? It’s actually not as hard as you think. Many of the applicants are applying because the Job Centre told
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Dare to Dream?
Dream Job? Is that really possible for all of us? Isn’t it a bit …unrealistic? Should we really dare to dream that we could love our work? YES! YES! YES! We should. Can everyone be an astronaut, prima ballerina, or brain surgeon, just because we dream of it? No! These vocations take loads of talent,
Do you think like a job seeker or an employer?
Job seekers that only think like job seekers are unlikely to get an interview. Thinking like a job seeker can mean that we fail to see things from the employer’s viewpoint or worse, we make up our own version of what the employer’s viewpoint is! For example, there’s an advert for a great vacancy. The
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7 Dream Job Habits
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey is one of my all time, favourite books. And, Stephen’s instruction is to teach the habits as soon as you learn them so that you learn better yourself. In fact that could be another great habit: Teach in order to learn! Highly recommended reading… I
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What makes you, YOU?
YOU are pretty special. You probably don’t think so but just ask around! Your friends, your colleagues, your boss (?), and your close family will all be able to tell you what’s so great about having you in their life. Although you may dismiss their compliments and feelings, the fact remains that they recognise your
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