Are you feeling unsettled in your job right now? Well if so, you are certainly not alone.

The global pandemic has caused many individuals to actively challenge their own assumptions about what they are doing and what they might want to do next.

Whatever your reason for feeling unsettled our simple advice is

Are you thinking big enough and bold enough about the next chapter in your career?

Do you typically understate your capabilities and achievements when describing them to others?

Are you currently frustrated with your current role but feeling trapped?

Are you at an important crossroads in your career but in a dilemma about which direction to take?

Do you yearn for a different career pathway that will provide you with more fulfilment and pleasure?

Do you struggle to see how your unique set of skills and experiences could be valuable in a different walk of life?

Here are five simple but effective tips about how you can rapidly turn your good intent or urgent need to find a new job into a tangible reality in the year ahead.

One of the critical factors that most enables job seekers to be successful in securing their desired next career move is the ability to effectively tell their stories and showcase their successes.

As you lie back, relax and soak up the sun this Summer (or if its winter with you, as you snuggle up in the warm), here are some important questions you might like to ask yourself before these calmer days slip away:

If you are fortunate enough to have secured a job interview, you certainly do not want to waste the opportunity and leave anything to chance - you need to stand-out like never before.

In recognition of these challenging economic circumstances, for the months of July and August 2020 only, we are offering significantly discounted rates to provide individuals with intensive help to prepare for interview.

The world health crisis has thrown many career professionals into a state of uncertainty about their futures. Levels of concern about jobs and careers are understandably high either as a result of the imposed decisions of employers or the surfacing by individuals of their own personal dissatisfactions. The need for a planned and proactive approach to your career has never more been at a premium. In this latest blog we explore some of the dimensions of uncertainty and how any negative response can be translated into positive action.

Looking at a number of emerging business challenges facing the world and defining a range of premium leadership competencies that will be needed to navigate enterprises through this period of unprecedented turbulence and disruption. 

In this the third in our recent series of blogs relating to the current global health crisis, we consider some of the important choices facing talented individuals in planning their next career moves in the context of a much-changed jobs market. Our strong advice is to use this time productively to address three simple questions..

During this extraordinary period in world events, you may well be finding yourself in lockdown and working most days from home on your own. Our strong recommendation is to turn the unfortunate situation on its head by investing newly available time to think hard about your career.

Here are four simple career-related tasks you could be undertaking

Yes, the daunting final short-list interview is just a few days way. So how do you make sure that in approaching this important moment in time you don’t let your nerves and anxieties get the better of you? How do you stay in control of yourself and the interview situation, and give yourself the very best chance of being the stand-out candidate, outperforming some other undoubtedly talented competing individuals?

“Well is this it? Is this as good as it gets? And, if not, can I really be bothered with uprooting myself and my family for another job opportunity that may turn out to be no better than my current role?”

Well only you will really know if you have reached your career pinnacle, arrived at your end game destination, are happy to coast your way effortlessly into your retirement. Maybe this is your destiny fulfilled in life...

or alternatively ...

There is a recurring question that we are frequently asked - “When should I start planning and preparing for my next significant career move?”  Well, perhaps predictably our response invariably is “it’s never too soon”.

Here are a number of reasons why it might be wise to start investing some of your marginal time in thinking about what might lie beyond your current assignment.