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How to find a career you love
In work but not feeling challenged? Uninspired by the work you are doing? No motivation to get out of bed on Monday morning? You are not alone. In 2018, employee ...
Emotional intelligence, sometimes known as EQ, is a person’s ability to recognise, use, understand, manage and handle emotions. ...
It’s one of those days. You keep scrolling through Instagram over and over again, you continuously check the news when nothing has changed. ...
I don’t know about you, but September always makes me feel like starting afresh. Perhaps it’s the end of Summer, the beginning of Autumn and a change in weather. Pe ...
Everyone feels bored at some time during the day, and it’s a great way to tell yourself that it's time for a cup of tea, a breath of fresh air or a stretch of the leg ...
Remember when you used to jump onto a crowded train vying for your tiny corner and pushing out your elbows just to gain that bit of space? Remember when you used to lin ...
This week, Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast of all time, said no. She said no to continuing to compete to prioritise her mental health and protect herself. ...
You’ve got a mountain of work piling up on your desk, emails that you’ve been putting off replying to and are suddenly asked by your line manager to pick up a proje ...
Would you like to be that person who comes back to the office in September, re-energised, revitalised and raring to go? ...
Limiting beliefs are the thoughts, ideas, and assumptions you have that limit your progress. ...
COVID is finally receding and you’ve put on the pounds. You’ve little motivation, have not left your village for six months, and have no idea where to start or what ...
Searching online looking for the position you are after and there are so few opportunities? Or perhaps you’ve been offered a job, but it’s not quite what you dreamt ...
Feel as though you’ve been in your role for far too long and really should have had an opportunity to move up, gain more responsibility and learn something new? But w ...
Been offered a contract position but don’t know whether it’s a good idea to take it? Deciding what the best career move for you is always tricky, but a new type of ...
With vision boards growing in popularity, especially in celebrity communities - Oprah, Katy Perry and Beyoncé swear by them - there’s nothing like the anticipa ...
With women only applying for a role if they meet 100% of the requirements in a job description compared to men who apply for the role when they meet only 60%, we’ve a ...
When you were younger was there something you really wanted to do? I didn’t have a dream career in mind from a very young age, but I my first job out of university wa ...
In 2017, a LinkedIn study found that 72% of 25-33 year olds have experienced a quarter-life crisis, with 32.4% currently having one. The average age for a quarter-life ...
Are you struggling to cope in the workplace? Do you find it difficult to switch off from work at the end of the day? Are you feeling exhausted but just can’t seem to ...
Want a mentor, but don’t know where to find one, especially a good one? It's tricky, we know. Here’s how you can find your perfect mentor within your line of work. ...
Being a mentor might never have crossed your mind, and you may well be thinking it’s not worth the time and effort. But here are 6 reasons why it might just be the ne ...
In Professor Dan Ariely’s experiment at MIT, three classes were given three weeks to finish three essays. Class A were asked to hand in all their work at the end of t ...
You’ve may well be raving about how your miracle morning helps you set your intentions for the day and focus on the tasks at hand, but have you heard about a shutdown ...
According to John Medina in his book, Brain Rules, switching between various tasks can make projects take up to 50% longer to complete. Furthermore 98% of us are unable ...
Decided that you might like to try your hand at a portfolio career, but don’t know where to start? Here is our step by step guide to help you plan out your portfolio ...
With 320,000 people in the UK having a ‘side hustle’ - a second self-employed job why don’t you join the 65% of millennials considering taking on one alongside yo ...
With COVID firmly upon us, and job opportunities few and far between, there’s no better time to set up as a freelancer. It’s likely that as companies can’t afford ...
Now that working from home is the new normal, you may be considering how your next career move can be purely based at home and fit around your personal life. You can do ...
Social media is the best platform to build your personal brand as it’s free, vast, and has immense potential to connect you to a global audience. You never know, if y ...
Believe it or not, some companies are still hiring, many of whom started the process before we went into lockdown and all started working from home. If you are one of t ...
With COVID19 likely to change the way people work - primarily that more people will work from home - while business have also had to restructure, pivot or refocus to ma ...
Adaptability, or agility, is the ability to change, reinvent and improve the way in which you are doing things based on the environment you are in. In a day-to-day cont ...
With Covid-19 in full swing, it’s more than likely that you are worried about whether your company is going to keep you on past the next few months or whether they ar ...
As Boris announced this week that people should start returning to work - firstly people who can’t work from home, and eventually everyone else, here are our predicti ...
Finally, we are seeing light at the end of the tunnel and should be out of lockdown in the next few weeks. However, you still have the next couple of weeks to get throu ...
If you are not working in the front line for the foreseeable future, I’ll bet that you’ve too much time on your hands. Perhaps that DIY list that you’ve had for t ...
If COVID-19 has made you consider whether you have a future in the career you are currently in, there’s no time like the present to think about what else you might ex ...
Personal branding is the process of optimising and managing the way you are presented to others. With qualifications becoming less valuable, and more and more appl ...
With 2 million freelancers in the UK (16% of the working population) contributing £119 billion to the economy, there’s no time like the present to join in their lot. ...
In his book, Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport suggests that we should stop emails taking over our lives by changing the way we write them. ...
Your core values are the beliefs that are most essential to how you view the world. Articulating your core values is a great way to help you understand yourself better, ...
Unsure of what your core values are? Here are more than 200 to give you some ideas as to how you lead your life and formulate your career path are: ...
In 2016 the World Economic Forum listed 10 skills that we should all have by 2020 to thrive in the workplace in their report The Future of Jobs. They claimed that the&n ...
Job rejection is something that we’ve all encountered, but knowing this doesn’t make it any easier, especially if you are really ready for a career move. However, t ...
To-Do lists are a great way to help you increase your productivity for the day, especially if you're in a career where you have to manage your own time or where your wo ...
I was a bright and organised student during my school days. Most of my teachers used to say that I would have the most shining career among all my classmates. Whenever ...
When applying for a job you need to tailor your CV to the application every time, so one way you can save time is to keep a running master CV. Even with positions with ...
A mentor someone who can support you in your career, alongside giving you feedback, knowledge and guidance. They may be someone who has gone through the same experience ...
Downshifting is moving into a career with less hassle, fewer working hours and most probably lower pay. It's great for those who want to make more time for their hobbie ...
Unfortunately, in the current climate, it's more and more possible to face what's known as a 'forced career change', that is, one where you industry is moving forward i ...
Know what career you want to enter into next but don't know how do you realise your dream? Make sure that you are ready to turn this into reality by asking yourself whe ...
If you've a career change in mind, before you start it's a good idea to come up with a plan. How long is your career change going to take, and how much money and time ( ...
In order to find a new career you enjoy, you don’t have to step down from your role immediately and start all over again, instead your time can be used wisely in rese ...
On the TED stage, Psychologist Barry Schwartz argues that the freedom of choice has not made us freer but more paralysed, and that too much choice can reduce overall ha ...
Let's face it, 2020 was NOT the year we were expecting. However, that doesn't mean that we can't look forward to 2021 and think about what we'd like to achieve with our ...
It is important to choose a job that is right for you. Remember, you are going to have to spend a lot of time at work and if it is not a good fit, you won’t be happy ...
Have you ever heard people at work open up a conversation about their childhood with - "yeah I grew up in Bristol, had a normal childhood, in and out of CAMHs, nearly d ...
People think that when you finish high school or gain your undergraduate degree you are done with your education, and never have to sit down and learn again, but t ...
Yesterday members of Eluceo attended a debate entitled The Changing World of Work at King’s College London which focused on the development of robotics in the workpla ...