Career Articles
Time for Career Confidence
With all the media coverage of financial sector crisis, market uncertainty and burgeoning recession, it would be easy to convince yourself that now is not the best time to be reassessing your career direction or out in the recruitment market, and that you’d be best to keep your head down – but you’d be wrong!
Getting Your Career Online
We’re always rushing here and there with our work, getting the jobs done that need to be, and please the powers that be. It’s a struggle, and we get there – eventually – but how happy do you feel in your job, really? Could there be a better fit for you out there? A stronger match for the real you, where you could add the most value to the world – and most importantly, to yourself, in doing so?
That’s the million dollar question. If only you had the space and structure to consider it properly….of course you would. But how would you, if you did have time?
Testing Times
When the job market is less buoyant and employers have more candidates for each advertised role, they are more likely to use tests as part of the interview process. Referring to them as ‘psychometrics’ just makes it all sound even scarier!
Psychometrics help to assess job fit. Employers use them to understand if you will meet the requirements of the job on offer or not. If you get comfortable with them, not only will you do better in selection processes, but you can also use them to manage your career proactively.
Career Energy – The Power Behind the Work
The drive to do the best job possible; the motivation to go the extra mile at work; even the kick-start to get up out of bed and into the office – these are all real and regularly experienced products of high career energy. There is no doubt that people produce higher quality work, the higher their felt levels of career energy. They commonly experience greater job satisfaction, and clearly, organisational efficiency is a key potential gain. So how is career energy level determined, and how can it be increased?
Careering Into Control
Oh no, it’s the dreaded Monday morning, you’ve put it off for as long as you can, but its rolled around again so fast, you drag yourself from your bed to begrudgingly start your working week. It wasn’t always like this, once upon a time you were ‘up and atom’ before the alarm went off each Monday morning, excited by the prospects of what lay ahead in your working week. But in recent times something has changed – “how did I get here?” is the question that springs to mind. You’ve had many fleeting thoughts about this, it makes you uncomfortable, could it be boredom? Is a boss or a colleague getting under your skin – maybe, now just maybe, you could be in the wrong job? This thought you push quickly to the back of your mind, because admitting this will lead you into all sorts of trouble – or maybe not…