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Career Development

How To Pick The Right Company For Your Career (3 Ways)

How do you know you’re making the right move?

Whether you’re deciding where to go for your first job, making a mid-career shift or picking the place to close the final chapter on your career. It’s important to know you’re making the right move.

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Career Development

How to build your brand in a new job

As much as I hate writing these words, investing in a personal brand is important in today’s world.

There was a time not so long ago that I would unleash my eyes of judgement when someone brought up the topic of personal branding. But, as I’ve evolved in my career, I’ve come to understand its place in the game we all play.

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Career Development

If not now, when?

Let me tell you something, a year ago today I had a vision. Not a dream, but a vision of building a passion project to satisfy my creative needs.

I created a platform to satisfy my own creative love of writing. It was meant to be something just for me, and maybe that one other random person who might land on it by mistake through a random Google search.

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Daily Thoughts

There is no secret formula for success

Honestly, how many posts do you read on a weekly basis that promise to divulge the secrets of success to you? For me at one point, it used to be daily, it used to be inspiring, it used to motivate me – but now it just pisses me off.

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Learning Strategy Skills

L&D teams need to practice what they preach

I came across an interesting quote recently, while listening to a podcast between the comedian Russell Brand and self-help guru Tony Robbins:

“We all teach, what we most need to learn”

It struck me as I had been thinking about the capabilities of learning teams and how many people are actually keeping their own skills up to date, embracing continuous learning and actually practising what we preach to everyone else.