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What Now Newsletter May 2023 - ChatGPT!

14 May 2023 Categories: Career & Jobs career career change career coach career transition clarity cover letter get a job interview preparation interview skills job application job interview job search job seek resume selection criteria

If you need to write a job application, or prepare for a job interview – listen up! Normally I’d advise you to have a nice conversation with a good career coach to fasttrack your job applications and let them do the hard foundation work for you. Not today, now you have a chance to have a conversation with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot that you can have a ‘humanlike’ conversation with and ask them. Now I’m not the expert in...[read more]

Find your Thing

10 February 2023 Categories: Career & Jobs career career change career coach career transition clarity connection get a job job search job seek resilience success

I was privileged to be interviewed by Lawrence Mitchell and included in the Finding EQUILIBRIUM newsletter, where we had a great conversation about how to find your thing!Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBPpiSphNhYAnd do yourself a favour, and check out the website, he has a straightforward, meaningful approach to wellbeing. Most importantly, take it from me, it works!Click Here

Keep Calm and Reject that Job Offer

25 July 2022 Categories: Career & Jobs career career change career coach career transition clarity get a job job application job interview job search resilience

WHAT NOW? July 2022 NEWSLETTER Can you Keep Calm and Reject that Job Offer?Too often the job search process is undertaken at a time when you are desperate. You desperately need a job (to bring income in), you desperately need a change from your current job, you desperately want this one particular job that seems like the perfect job (if ever there was such a thing!).This can put you in the frame of mind that you are begging for a job and...[read more]

2BS Bathurst local radio station interview 27 September 2021

8 October 2021 Categories: Career & Jobs In the News career career change career coach career transition clarity get a job job search success

2BS is our local Bathurst radio station and very supportive of the local community and local initiatives. I am very grateful to have been interviewed on their afternoon show. Listen in here: 2BS 27Sep21.mp4

Your unconscious mind can unlock pandemic job opportunities

14 September 2021 Categories: Career & Jobs career career change career transition clarity get a job job search resilience success unconscious mind volunteering

In the news! In a great publication - Flying Solo... You can use your unconscious mind to unlock pandemic job opportunities! Read it herehttps://www.flyingsolo.com.au/startup/business-start-up/your-unconscious-mind-is-the-key-to-unlocking-pandemic-job-opportunities/?utm_source=organic&utm_medium=flyingsolo&utm_id=linkedin

The Magic of Job Searching

4 August 2021 Categories: Career & Jobs career clarity connection empathy get a job job search job seek unconscious mind

I was very privileged to be the guest on a wonderful Podcast. In this video I chat with Darren Saul a recruitment agent I met over 20 years ago while running my IT Consulting Company. Darren specialises in IT recruitment and even though I have not needed his services for many years, we've stayed connected. He has been one of the few recruitment agencies that have been run in a values-driven and people-focussed way. And now that I talk all...[read more]

3 Alternative Ways to Land a New Job (12 May 2021)

3 August 2021 Categories: Career & Jobs career career change career transition get a job job search job seek volunteering

When it’s time to find a new job the first thing you do is search the job ads right? Whether you are looking on job search websites, specific industry websites, recruitment agencies or in newspaper and classifieds employment sections, it’s obvious that this is where you go to find work. But what happens if you can’t find the job you’re looking for?Well, then it’s time to step outside the box and try something a bit different.Believe it or not, searching...[read more]

8 Steps to Build Job Awareness (14 April 2021)

3 August 2021 Categories: Career & Jobs career clarity get a job job search job seek

Are you Overlooking Job Opportunities?Whether you are new to the workforce or at a turning point in your career you will need some understanding of the job market – or at least know what it is you’re looking for. This can include knowing what you like and don’t like to do, as well as what jobs offer positions that will fulfil your desires, skills, and knowledge. When you do a search of job advertisements, you also need to know what you’re...[read more]

A Resume Rant

3 August 2021 Categories: Career & Jobs career transition get a job job application resume

Some hints and tips for writing your resume - how to match your experience to a job in your resume. And how you can show evidence in your resume that you actually do have the skills or experience that is needed for a particular job. Listen here: https://youtu.be/-dpkcdIORA4

A Successful Job Interview – there is a Formula! (31 May 2021)

3 August 2021 Categories: Career & Jobs get a job interview preparation interview skills job interview

Many individuals find it difficult to answer questions ‘on the spot’ and this can make attending a job interview a nerve-wracking experience. After all, answering questions is what makes up a significant part of an interview or, like the time I went for my first government contract, where just the asking and answering of 5 questions made up the entire interview.While most interview experiences will include some form of conversation and even a bit of rapport building at the start,...[read more]