What do employers value?

Posted by on Sep 14, 2016 in career development, careers | 0 comments

What do employers value?

As employees, workers and jobseekers, we all have huge capacity and high potential but sometimes we are the last to see this. If you want proof, on any given day there are people out there undervaluing and underselling themselves, particularly when they are looking for work – which is perhaps when a person needs to see and know his or her value most. I remember a news article about employers in the US hiring ex-service personnel. Companies who did this are more likely to do it again. As the article says of one such case… “[Employers] wanted to hire him for the things they couldn’t...

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Exploring The MBA Experience

Posted by on May 25, 2016 in career development, careers | 0 comments

Exploring The MBA Experience

I have spent a good deal of time (interview, assessment & career development time) with MBAs from schools all over the world. Some of these MBAs completed their degree 5, 10, 20 years ago, and even longer. Others graduated more recently, while some were still studying when we talked. Albeit for their own reasons, all of the graduate MBAs I have spoken with agreed that their intensive period of study was career and life changing. Another thing this same group agreed upon (unanimously again) was that the MBA opened their eyes to everything they expected it to, along with plenty they had no...

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Unreachable Goals?

Posted by on May 6, 2016 in career development, careers | 0 comments

Unreachable Goals?

There’s a definite football/soccer slant to the following but this was also an opportunity too good to miss. Jumping straight in to the big, exciting question… Are there any unreachable goals? If Leicester City F.C. can win the English Premier League, what previously unreachable goal can you now set for yourself? Even for people with no interest in football – which admittedly is just twenty-two people spending 90 minutes of their lives trying to put a ball into a net – Leicester’s incredible, against-all-odds achievement has been headline news. Have the...

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The Importance of How

Posted by on Apr 8, 2016 in career development, careers | 0 comments

The Importance of How

Perhaps my favourite How story is this fable from Aesop… The North Wind and the Sun were arguing which was the stronger, when a traveller passed by in a heavy cloak. To settle the argument, they agreed that whoever succeeded in making the traveller take off his cloak would be considered the stronger. The North Wind blew as hard as it could but, the harder it blew, the closer the traveller drew his cloak around him. When the North Wind finally gave up, the Sun gently shone on the traveller, who almost immediately removed his cloak. Here is another one of my favourite How stories… During an...

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Culture: A New Horizon of Learning & Growth For Your Career?

Posted by on Mar 24, 2016 in career development, careers | 0 comments

Culture: A New Horizon of Learning & Growth For Your Career?

It is completely normal to talk about company culture but we are still a long way from appreciating the power and importance of culture when it comes to our careers. While it is great to observe companies engaging with and expressing cultural beliefs (because when this is done well and done right, it is impactful and meaningful) no single company, organisation or country has a monopoly on culture. Culture is for everyone to appreciate, to learn from and understand. The benefits of being fluent in any culture are numerous, so what can we (as individuals) do in order to explore this new and...

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