Posts Tagged ‘career advice’
A couple of months ago I was reading a glossy fashion magazine and I was amazed when I came across an article that literally crucified women who do not disclose their pregnancy to their current or future employer when applying for a new role.
Just a few months ago, Lord Sugar reported that pregnant women should disclose this ‘particular’ during interviews. It is the old adage: pregnant women are a burden for a company. Is this really the case? With the changes in the Paternity Leave Regulations and the employment law reforms announced in the Queen’s Speech the rules of the game are changing. However the cultural shift has not taken place yet.
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With the expectation that today’s female leaders need to be able to show that they can truly ‘do it all’, Nicky Garcea, director at organisational psychology firm Capp, explores the impact of the need to be a ‘juggler’ has on female talent development and well-being, and highlights ways that ‘doing less’, but thinking more strategically about using strengths can be a women’s secret weapon to success.
In my experience of working with women globally, their feeling of needing to ‘do it all’ and ‘do it all well’ is unanimous. And if the pressure to juggle jam-packed home lives with getting a promotion, wasn’t stressful enough, researchers also believe that this desire to balance home and work causes a significant decline in happiness. Read the rest of this entry »
In this Q&A, author Kate Keenan of ‘It’s All About You‘ outlines her top tips for taking control of your career, how to give yourself an MOT health check to manage your wellbeing effectively and how to pursue your career dream.
Q. Why should I get out of my comfort zone and take a career risk?
A. It’s not so much as getting out of your comfort zone as finding the right one to jump into which will provide you the courage and confidence to take that risk and follow your career dreams.
In this Q&A, Sharon Eden, inner leadership coach and psychotherapist talks about how receiving a whack around the head is a deliberate call to make you wake up so you can (re)discover your purpose, passion and power. She also talks about the personal cost of avoiding or ignoring our warning signs or staying within your own unhealthy comfort zone.
Do you need a whack around the head?
People who need a whack around the head are happily unhappily sleep-walking instead of living; robotically going through the motions of their work, domestic and social lives. They’re people like anyone who has fallen into their career rather than having chosen it. Like anyone who stays in their current unsatisfying job because of the mortgage or they’re too scared to put themselves on the job market line.
You might just be plain old fed-up or suffer from stress, depression or the ‘Monday Morning Blues’. You might even get the fleeting idea ‘there has to be more to life than this!’ But that’s all quickly shoved to the back of your mind for the uncomfortable comfort of staying with the status quo; clutching to the familiar which seems not to demand anything much of you. Read the rest of this entry »
The year 1994 was a real turning point for Chris Rawlins. A high flying city trader who had led the hedonistic lifestyle; partying, wearing pin stripe suits and red braces, found himself throwing it all in. He no longer enjoyed the thrill of chasing the money. So, he took himself out of his comfort zone and ended up volunteering for Bridge Partnership for six months, which took him down a totally different, unexpected career path that changed his life forever.
He argues that if you’re finding work a burden, you’re fizzling out, and becoming mentally exhausted – you need to get out now before it’s too late. “Don’t get caught up in a career trap. Fear is all about the imagined of a perceived future that’s not real,” states Chris. “Take control before your career change is thrust upon you.”
If you dare to take a risk in your career, get yourself out of your current predicament, no matter how scary that seems, and lose the fear of walking into the unknown, you’re suddenly presented with new opportunities you could never imagine possible. This is Chris’s story. Read the rest of this entry »
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