A Job You Love

Everyday I receive emails from people asking for free advice. I don’t know them, they don’t know me but they hope to get something for free.

Even if time is short, I always try to reply back to all the emails…Sometimes I just say I won’t be able to help you (if it is something too big as reviewing a CV or a profile).

But the worst case is when someone ask for a piece of advice and once I send an email does not reply back.

It happened to me … Continue Reading

I have been using google reader to get all the news about my industry especially career advice and everything related to job search.

But with the time passing, I realize that career advice is completely boring and not creative…every single day, I read loads of advice and tips:

“5 tips to write your cv”

“the 7 tips to win an interview”

“How to use linkedin to find a job”

And so on…(I hate lenghty listings like the “15 ways” with 15 bullet points)

So I started to simply unsubscribe to a great deal of blogs with … Continue Reading

Today I had a chat with Matthias Feist, head of careers and business relations at Regent’s college.

The careers and business relation department has been expanding lately and Matthias, as a careers professional himself, gave good tips and advice for graduates and soon-to-be graduates.

How do you see the current situation for graduates?

This year is probably the toughest for higher education graduates in a long time. The traditional large graduate employers have downsized their trainee programmes considerably. Even with the State trying to entice employers to take on graduates … Continue Reading

When it’s about career and job, it only matters when we lose our job or reach a point where we can’t stand our job anymore, we are stuck in a rut.
So career and job become important only in time of transition, in time of crisis.

But the rest of time, nothing!!
And to quote John Lees who precisely wrote a book “How to get a job you’ll love”:

“Most people spend more time planning a car purchase, one annual holiday or their new kitchen than they do thinking about their career”. In other words you will spend almost all your grown-up … Continue Reading