The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) estimates that over 28 million workdays were lost due to work-related ill health in 2018. If you’ve had to take time off work for health reasons, it can be difficult to know how to present a gap in your CV and what you should or...
We have all experienced confusion, doubt and uncertainty about our careers at some point in our lives. Career transition, redundancy, end of a contract…or the time we spent in a certain country has come to an end…possibilities are endless. What is the best way to deal...
Understanding the position of women in the workplace is in itself a daunting task, given large variation by region, country, and industry. Understanding attitudes surrounding females in the workplace is even more complex, due to changing perceptions and biases....
photo by Beata Nykiel What you give your energy and attention to grows. What you neglect deteriorates and eventually catches up with you. It is like that with your physical and mental health, but also with other aspects of your life. I have looked at what constitutes...
For hire sign Sometime last year I looked at my LinkedIn profile and realised that I have only got the job once in my lifetime via an application process! That was a revelation! This does not mean that I am terrible at applying, it means that (without...
‘I would rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not’ is what I read on a T-shirt worn by a teenage girl in Tokyo, who passed me by on a train platform. In a high-end department store I saw decorative items and posters for girls’ rooms saying ‘Space...
