Category Archives: Career Advice

Need some help with your career? Our career advice section has a wide selection of articles and guides to help you choose the right and career and progress up the corporate ladder when you find it.

Making the Transition from Employment to Self Employment

It’s very common for people to dream about being their own boss and for a lot of people, it is just that – a dream – temporary escapism to take their mind of the minor gripes they have with their current job.  But for some, self employment is a life-long dream, but despite that, people put it off and avoid making the move because they see it as too high a risk.  So how do you get over that?  This article looks at some key ways to help you make the transition from working for some other guy to working for yourself.

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10 Questions To Help Inspire You To Find Work You Love

People who achieve their career goals are moved to action by inspiration or desperation.  If you’re moved by both you’ll reach your goal even quicker. If you’re still stuck in a job you dislike, chances are you don’t hate it THAT much or you would have done something about it. Or you are possibly not inspired because you don’t really know what you want and nothing really excites you at the moment. Read more…

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6 steps to making a positive career change

It’s all too easy to sit at the beginning of your career (or at any point throughout your career) and drown yourself with thoughts of the future. Having a goal is good but procrastinating about how you will reach that goal can end up consuming you.

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You Are What You Think?

Consider this: Your world is created as you wish it to be. If you believe that you are a victim of circumstance, then you will always be a “victim”. There is a benefit to being victimized. You will always have people around you who will support you and feel sorry for you. That is comforting. Now consider this: What would happen if you weren’t a victim? What would your life be like if you grabbed it by the throat and shook the living daylights out of it?

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Into The Limelight

To stand out in a cluttered world, you need to be slightly famous. There are over millions of small businesses today vying for our attention. Yet, the marketplace is more discriminating and sceptical than ever. To get the greatest return on your marketing efforts, you need to rise above the crowd. You need an edge over the competition. In short, you need to be to be slightly famous.

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50 ways to find serenity (when serenity is the last thing on your mind!)

by Maria Marsala

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Whose Career Is It Anyway?

On the face of it, it’s one of the strangest questions I often ask my clients.  When people come to me with their career ideas, one of the first questions I ask them is ‘whose career goal is it?’ Read more…

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5 Ways To Deal With Job Rejection

How many times have you had a job interview recently? Are you getting fed up with all the setbacks? How are you coping with rejection? Read more…

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The Top 6 Attitudes Employers Seek

A recent poll by recruitment group Reed found that 96% of employers would hire someone who did not have a complete set of skills but displayed the right attitude over an applicant with the perfect skills but who lacked the right mindset. Read more…

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6 Questions to ask yourself BEFORE you change jobs

If you’ve got to the stage where you’re no longer inspired to do a job you’ve trained hard for, it’s easy to come to the conclusion that you’ve made the wrong decision about your career and you need to change. Read more…

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