Workforce change: Three tips for effectively managing outplacement services
If your organisation only provides career transition support in the form of outplacement services for employees once they have been made redundant, you and your employees are missing out. When it comes to outplacement services, there’s no such thing as too early. Your employees will need all the help they can get from career coaching…
Resumes & cover letters: Functional resume template
A functional resume emphasises your skills and abilities, or ‘functional areas’, rather than chronological employment history and is especially useful when you are changing your career focus, when you have had gaps in your employment, or when you want to highlight your skills and achievements from older jobs, or from volunteer or extracurricular experience. The…
Job Interviews: What to wear to a job interview
Nothing says ‘Hire me’ like a polished interview outfit – think classic, tasteful and tailored, and you can’t go wrong. For men that often means a suit and tie, and for women a skirt/dress pants and blazer or dress. But dressing for an interview is not always so simple, and putting together a killer interview…
Leadership: Experiential learning approach: building better leaders
Building better leaders with an experiential learning approach You may have heard the saying: “meetings are places where good ideas go to die”. I’d add that in the leadership development space, death by a thousand PowerPoint slides is a prevalent crime. There is however a growing desire to revisit the way many organisations approach leadership…
Resumes & cover letters: Are resumes still relevant?
Between the creative resumes that go viral, video applications and the increasing need for everyone to have a digital presence, you might assume that it’s time to file away the traditional two-page career summary for something a bit more flashy. The resume hasn’t disappeared yet, but its role is changing. If you’re looking at finding…
Leadership: 3 reflective leadership habits of highly effective leaders
There’s one practice that will add richness and depth to your work life, empower your team members and enhance your productivity and that of those around you. It can be developed and learned, and it’s cheap. We’ve all heard of mindfulness and its benefits to health and wellbeing, but to me, mindfulness is most useful…
Assessment: Why psychometric assessment beats gut instinct every time
In ten years of professional recruitment I have averaged about 500 job interviews a year, or 5,000 in total. So you might think I’d be the first person to say that the gut instinct a recruiter develops is more powerful than psychometric assessment. You’d be wrong. Despite the fact that I interview people for a…
Leadership: A leader achieves a ‘miracle’
How one leader inspired his team to achieve a ‘miracle’ in under a year Nothing warms our hearts more than seeing the underdog triumph over adversity to rise to the top of their field. The recent upset win by Leicester City Football Club of the English Premier League is a story not only of great…