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...
Read MoreUnreachable 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreCulture: 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...
Read MoreBe Nice to People
Be Nice. It won’t be the first time you heard this advice that’s for sure. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people talk about the importance of being nice to others, and how many different ways there are to say this. So, what I will share with you instead is a little story that stuck in my mind ever since the day it was told to me by the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. This CEO and I were in an interview and I’d just asked him a pretty standard question along the lines of, ‘What’s important to you?’. He answered that being nice to people was...
Read MoreThe Career Explorer's Journal: Latest News
The new edition of The Career Explorer’s Journal is uploading as we speak. Within the next week or so, all your favourite online stores (iTunes, Amazon, kobo, nook, etc.) will have the new book on their virtual shelves, ready to download. As part of this launch, we wanted to share news of a first for you and for us too… everyone who owns an earlier copy of the book will receive a free upgrade to the 2013 edition. This means if you purchased any of our earlier editions, get in touch via our contact page and we’ll send you a 100%-off voucher for our publisher’s website....
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