When should you seek professional career advice?
Seeking out professional career advice is no different to many forms of professional advice. You can find a certain amount on Google, but if it doesn’t answer all your questions or tell you where to start, you can feel no more confident than when you…
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How to approach a company when there is no advertised position?
Chris* was a communications and policy specialist, with a wealth of experience in health research, and was wanting to return to work after taking time off with her family. There was one organisation she had always wanted to work for, because of their global reach…
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How to pitch your value at any age or career phase
Regardless of your age or your career phase, the process of securing a new job requires a sales and marketing approach. The employer is the customer and you are selling the product, which is you. Being able to overcome the obvious or unspoken objections, through…
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How to be visible when working remotely
As remote working has spread widely and quickly throughout most workplaces, we are talking to many people keen to keep some level of remote in their work-life. Like anything new, there are some concerns and uncertainties. One of the common questions of concern we are…
When will the market wake up in 2021?
From where we were just 9 months ago, the recruitment market has been more buoyant than anyone would have expected. If you have been watching the job boards though, it may not have looked very positive. The reason why is that many of the opportunities…
Tailor, Tailor, Tailor
In a competitive market whatever you’re selling, even if it’s yourself, has to cut through. With the current number of open vacancies being overwhelmed by applicants, employers are streamlining their application process to be able to quickly reduce it to a short list. They are…
How to start a difficult conversation
A situation been slowly building and it’s now taking up vital energy and thoughts. Maybe there’s a situation or conversation where you weren’t clear in the moment to speak up, but it feels too important to just let it go. But what if you’re not…
How to navigate an ATS job application
An increasing number of recruiters and employers are using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS for short) to automate the first stage of the recruitment process. An ATS is not a new concept. A “human ATS” has been reviewing resumes for decades. But, in order to deal…
How to stay motivated in your job search
If you’re searching for a new job right now, it can be a tough road no matter who you are and what level of role you’re looking for. A job search can be the beginning of a new wonderful path, but with so much uncertainty…
Broadened your job search around the boards
Finding a job in a downturn requires persistence, resilience and thinking outside the square. As we’ve discussed before, it is best to start your job search by talking with your network. But when your network is tapped out, and many of them are looking for…
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How to tailor your resume when you have 25+ years experience?
While a handful of specialist skills will remain in high demand, for the majority of candidates the job market will be employer driven. Over the coming months, with more applications expected for each open position, employers can be more discerning as to which applications they…
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What are your workstyle preferences?
We live in an age of unprecedented ambiguity, but for those that are self-aware an age of opportunity. Peter Drucker, in his book “Managing Oneself,” explains the keys to keep yourself engaged and productive during a career that may span 50 years includes: Cultivate a…
Getting your style right for a video interview
We’ve all seen it, haven’t we? That person on television being interviewed from home during our recent lockdown period and who just doesn’t look right. And regardless of how expert they are in their field, we are not listening as closely as we could be.…
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How to find job opportunities in a downturn
For any job search, the closest source of opportunity is generally through your industry and professional network. In a downturn this is where you need to look first. This makes logical sense to most people, but often the first step job seekers take is to…
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Tips for nailing a video interview
Our mass transition to remote working and projected slow return to ‘normal’ work, points to video interviewing becoming a standard part of the recruitment process. This period of change has meant everyone has started to become more comfortable using the technology. It has also shown…
Be mindful of the company you keep
It’s right to think that we are our own person, right? That we choose our thoughts, our decisions and our life? Maybe how we think and who we are isn’t a clear cut as that. Tell me the company you keep and I’ll tell you…
Recognising the signs of burnout
At this time of year, it is not surprising to come across colleagues, friends and family that are exhibiting the signs of burnout – it may even be something we can see in ourselves. But burnout is something that is more than just being tired…
What are the areas of career growth and decline over the next 5 years?
This is a question we hear regularly – whether from new graduates or experienced professionals. Some people resort to anecdotal evidence, or their local crystal ball, but we fall back on the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Labour Force Survey and predictions from the Department…
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Adapting to the future of work today
There is news of restructures and redundancies and fear of a lack of jobs in the technology driven future economy. At the same time, organisations are struggling to find skilled employees. This is predicted to worsen as the talent shortage creates fierce competition to attract…
The challenge of change for mature workers
Let’s be honest, making a decision to restructure an organisation is not an easy one. While the economics, technology and delivery methods sometimes make it a necessary decision, it doesn’t make it any easier for those involved in the conversation. If there are mature workers…
What to do when you just want to quit
Many of us have been there. The dread on Sunday night that tomorrow is the start of the working week. Feeling stressed, undervalued or unrecognised. Lacking respect for those that appear to have discretion over our career or feeling just plain stuck. We think to…
Why a holistic approach is vital to mid-life redundancy
Change is constant. The only thing I’d add to that old phrase is the changing pace of change is constant. We live in a time where we are always adapting, or at least trying to. The toughest change to adapt to, is when the…
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The hidden job market – what is it really?
Okay, you read lots of promotional blurbs about how a service will expose the “Hidden Job Market” for you. But how exactly? I’m pretty sure there isn’t a treasure chest full of the best opportunities buried somewhere that only a certain few have been issued…
Plan your career when you can’t plan for everything
Have you ever had a great idea, set the wheels in motion and then something out of the blue derails it? Sometimes you’ll take a breath and stick to your plan or sometimes it may throw you off your path so that doubts then take…
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The Importance of Practicing Lifelong Learning
The practice of lifelong learning is an instinctual adaptation to the increasing threat of obsolescence. Technology, globalisation and business management are continuing to evolve at a rapid rate. With this, comes constant change in job roles and therefore, the set of skills required to achieve…
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Being opportunity ready
Have you had a friend or colleague land the plum job and you’re thinking but they weren’t even looking? Why can’t I find opportunities like that? I read an article recently that got me thinking about the slower employment market and who’s doing it smarter,…
When should you seek assistance from a career advisor?
Like many major decisions, when should you seek professional advice? And who should you ask? Getting career advice can be a very personal process as any change may impact different aspects of your life. It will also require you to invest time and money. Before…
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Getting a foot in the door
Have you experienced frustration when starting off in your first career or looking to make a career change? You’ve sent off cover letters and your resume in response to the job advertisements/recruitment agencies and then wait. The dreaded “no thanks” letter arrives, or worse no…
Thriving after a mid to late career redundancy
Maybe you sensed it coming or maybe it felt like you’ve just been side swiped with the news, that the company has had to restructure and your role has now been made redundant. After investing your time and skills with your employer, for possibly years,…
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