The World Economic Forum, in its 2020 report The Future of Jobs, analyses the employment, skills, and workforce strategy needed for the future. Its findings make for interesting reading. By 2024, 35% of the skills we consider invaluable today will have changed. We are on the cusp of the fourth…

With low unemployment levels and a growing skills gap, organisations need to adapt their strategies from an administrative approach to something that feels more personal in order to attract top talent. Essentially, companies are looking to humanise their brand, to outline a personality, a set of values. And what is…

Job interviews can be nerve-wracking at the best of times, and it can sometimes be that you overcompensate by talking too much. …

For many of us, our work landscape has changed. Yes, companies may have given their employees a boost with more flexibility in their approach to time spent at the office vs working from home. But it may also mean that new colleagues haven’t even met face to face. …

It is always difficult not to take job rejection personally, but everyone must face the fact that at some stage of their career, in the process of looking for a new job, you will be turned down for a role. Whilst it may feel like the end of the world…

There is a moment in every interview situation that all interviewees dread, and it’s what feels like the inevitable cliché question. However, while they may seem to be standard rollout questions, they serve a very important purpose. One of the things about clichés is they sometimes have a basis in…

Leadership is an elusive quality but, for me at least, it isn’t a magical one. Certainly, there are some people who seem to have a natural ‘something’ that makes people more likely to follow them, charisma I suppose we would call it. However, a charismatic personality doesn’t make you a…

Young adults are the lifeblood of business. Gen Z already makes up a quarter of the global workforce. Born between 1997 and 2010, these are true digital natives, highly flexible and well educated — over 8 in 10 are graduates. …

Many of us are asking if life will ever be the same again. Our work landscape has changed more rapidly and profoundly than anyone sitting at a desk in December 2019 could ever have imagined. Whilst the pandemic has been a human tragedy, it has also been the catalyst behind…