What Did the People & Purpose Community Talk About This Week?

What did the People & Purpose Community Talk About This Week?

A weekly roundup of insights, discussions, and stories from the People & Purpose community—keeping you connected and inspired.

Why Your Career Story Is The Hardest One To Write

Something came up in a session with one of our program participants recently that we hear almost every time. She is a senior people and culture leader. Twenty years of experience, restructures, national teams, the lot. She had spent hours pulling her profile together and she said this: "When you...

Sep 18, 2026

What Happens When They Ring With No Warning?

It is Thursday morning. You are in the middle of something. Your phone rings, you do not recognise the number, and you answer it. It is a recruiter, calling about a role you applied for eight days ago and had half stopped thinking about. She has your application open in front of her. She has twe...

Sep 11, 2026

Are You Talking Yourself Out Of The Room?

Most people do not lose interviews because they lack experience. They lose them because of how they describe the experience they already have. Words like only, just, a little bit and basic shrink real work down to something forgettable, and the person across the table has no way of knowing wha...

Sep 04, 2026

Why Do I Feel So Behind In My Career Right Now?

There is a particular feeling that shows up in the middle of a career change. You look around at where you thought you would be by now, or where others seem to be, and a quiet voice says you are behind. It is one of the most common things we hear, and one of the heaviest to carry. So if that i...

Aug 28, 2026

Made Redundant More Than Once? Here Is What It Really Means

The first time is a shock. The second time, something else creeps in. A quiet, uncomfortable question that is hard to shake: is it me? We hear this from senior professionals often, including experienced HR and People leaders who have managed countless redundancies themselves. They know, better t...

Aug 14, 2026

No Career Goals Right Now? You Might Be in Survival Mode, Not Stuck

If someone asked you today what your goals are and what gives you a sense of purpose, could you answer? A while ago, one of the HR professionals we work with sat down to do exactly that. She opened the exercise, read the question, and went completely blank. Then the honest answer came out: right...

Aug 07, 2026

Why Your Next HR Role Probably Will Not Be Advertised

Here is something you already know from the other side of the desk, but that is easy to forget when you are the one looking: a lot of hiring never touches a job board. You have sat in the meetings where a role gets filled through a referral before anyone drafts the ad. You have quietly sounded o...

Jul 31, 2026

How To Fix A Job Search That Consumes Your Day

Here is something most HR leaders would spot in a second if it were happening to someone else, but miss completely when it is happening to them. You know how to build a role with boundaries. Defined hours, clear scope, protected downtime. You have coached other people through burnout. You have s...

Jul 24, 2026

How to Handle the Emotional Ups and Downs of a Job Search

Let me describe a week you might know too well, maybe better than most. One good call, and you are flying. You start picturing the role, the team, the version of your life where this all worked out. Then a day of silence, and you are on the floor, convinced it is never going to happen for you. S...

Jul 17, 2026

How Do I Know When It Is Time to Change Jobs or Careers?

Most people do not leave a role too early. They leave too late. By the time the decision finally feels obvious, months have quietly passed. The energy has drained out of the work, the Sunday dread has become normal, and a quiet voice keeps saying the same thing on repeat: I should have done th...

Jul 10, 2026

Why am I getting so many job rejections right now?

If you are getting knock-back after knock-back right now, I need you to hear something before anything else. It is not you. A lot of capable, experienced, genuinely impressive people are sitting in exactly this spot right now: doing everything right, staying active, following up, showing up, a...

Jul 03, 2026

How Do You Rebuild Confidence After an Unexpected Career Setback?

An unexpected career setback, whether it is a redundancy, a restructure, or a role that quietly disappeared, knocks more than your income. It knocks your confidence. And confidence is exactly what you need to find your next role. The good news is that confidence after a career setback can be r...

Jun 26, 2026

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