A Job You Love

Failure happens to everybody.

The other day, the feedbacks for one of the workshop I was running were not so great…It does happen sometimes even if it is rare.

I felt it as a failure, a failure to deliver my workshop, a failure to really give that information, that little hope, that little extra to my clients.

Failure is a learning process. I asked for a feedback to each participant to understand why…

Failure in the process of looking for a job is the same…you will get nos or fail at an interview.

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Do you want to win books about Career management ?

Do you want to write an article about Career/job and be read by hundreds of readers?

Do you want your contribution to be recognized and published on this blog?

John Lees, in association with this blog will give away two of his career titles including How To Get A Job You’ll Love for the best contribution.

Write an article about career or job issues! Whatever you want to write about your job search, your experience as a career coach or share some useful … Continue Reading

You will be surprised to learn that John does not believe in personal branding and that he gives creative tips on how to achieve a career change. For him a CV is really useful as an aide memoir and employers oversell positions…

Share your comments and other ideas.

John, I am a big fan of your books and the way you put things across and I have been reading your books (“How to get a job you’ll Love”, “Take control of your Career”) and listening to your talks.

To me, you … Continue Reading

I have been reading CVs lately and I am always surprised by the lack of punchy sentences at the beginning of CVs. Recruiters don’t spend more than 10-20 seconds reading your CV, so you need to grant some time to do your profile properly.

So what is a good profile?

Actually let’s start with a boring profiles on 90% of the CVs I come across.

Most of CVs have this kind of profile:

“I am a committed and rigorous person who strives to achieve the best results. I am strongly motivated by the media … Continue Reading

I am amazed sometimes to see how much people are able to brand themselves with no expertise or no experience at all.

And internet and social media are leveraging this more than anything else.

So you can be a 25 year old guy and brand yourseld as an expert in an industry where it takes many years to reach a good level of expertise. It is good and bad at the same time.

Yes social media is good to promote yourself and showcase who you are through articles, content and good … Continue Reading

2+2+1 what does that mean ? What is that strange formula in networking ?

It is a proper networking tool or even a concept invented by one friend and colleague in France, Hervé Bommelaer, the French expert in networking.

So what is that 2+2+1?

It is a way of optimizing your lunches, or make the most of them.

When you work, you don’t have time to network. So one one of the option is to use your lunch time to meet with people.

• The principles of the 2+2+1 are to

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The other day, I was waiting for a train at my station…and I was at the same time observing the pigeons hanging around on the platform (the idea of this article came from reading this awesome story, Job Search Tenacity through a blind dog)

There were 10 of them, 3 were really rawboned, and the other ones were not that great either.

A guy in front of me just dropped a crust of bread, and all of them rushed to grab that piece of food…they were fighting each other … Continue Reading