Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 - career change, career management

Career Management: Borders Books From me personally, to the near 2000 employees at Borders Books UK, a company now in administration, a heart felt: good luck! For the rest of us, is there a career management lesson in their plight? Certainly, I think for those looking to manage long term career prospects, there is. The [...]

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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 - career coaching, career planning, employment, job search, professionalism, qualifications

Career Planning As we return slowly over the next eighteen months to an economy which is creating more jobs than it is shedding, and unemployment starts to fall, in the world of employment we will see two issues return to the table: the shortage of skills within the market place, resulting from reduced birthrate the [...]

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Thursday, August 6th, 2009 - career coaching, career management, contract negotiation, employment, europe, immigration, job offers, job search, professionalism, recruitment, sunday thoughts

Career Management: Liverpool FC midfield As a Liverpool FC supporter of some years standing – I was at Junior school in the 1970s, my local team Bristol Rovers weren’t doing too well in the third division, and there was this wonderful team which played passing football and won everything – the recent trails and tribulations [...]

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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 - career change, career management, contract negotiation, credit crunch, economics, employment, unemployment

Everyone is in Temporary Jobs I spoke to a CV client of ours yesterday, who after sorting out where he wanted to go next, got employed as a contract Project Manager with four weeks. He has been happily self-employed now for 18months However, he came at me through LinkedIn, asking if we could chat about [...]

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Sunday, May 17th, 2009 - career coaching, career management, career planning, credit crunch, immigration, job application, job relocation, job search

Career Management photo credit: 1suisse Glenn, an accountant, asks: In the past 15 years, 80% of my past employers either went out of business or outsourced most of the jobs to India and closed local operations. Those companies have had: 5 (private), 75 (private), 2200 (public), and 375 employees (public). With the exception of one [...]

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