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Coping with redundancy, changing jobs or starting a business is stressful. Alongside ‘the-end-of-the-familiar’ is a whole lot of new stuff too. Coping with change can be difficult even for us who’s job it is to help others cope. Evaluating from your audience, customer or potential client perspective can be overlooked all too easily. How to cope with read more of Change, practice makes perfect? Who can blame them? Tenths of thousands of bright, ambitious young undergraduates are about to head off to university for an ‘education.’ Unless the economic landscape changes rapidly they are likely to be disappointed when it comes to securing a real ‘graduate job’ at the end of their course. First some context parameters; what constitutes a graduate read more of University places oversubscribed Job interviews are stressful; believe it or not they are for both candidates and interviewer. The job market is more competitive than it has been for many years. Qualified and experienced individuals are competing with bright, academically qualified graduates for the best roles. Occasionally, even after the online selection and the assessment centre are completed, it read more of Interviews, up close and personal Failure, I dislike the word intensely. The word failure delivers a sucker punch to hope, optimism and self-belief. As an alternative, I propose the word ‘lesson.’ Lesson conveys: an experience, one which we can evaluate, reflect and make our own minds up about. A natural outcome to any lesson is: we feel either positive or negative about the read more of Lessons not failures |
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