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 are so far inside your own thing, you cannot see it. The further you go, the more you have done. An...
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 twenty five minutes.
By tomorrow, she will have decided whether you go forward.
That call is the screen...
Are You Talking Yourself Out Of The Room?
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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 what sat behind them.
Here is why that happens, and how to fix it without overselling.
What Undersellin...
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