Articles by Jenny Williams
Your mind can be your worst enemy when you are looking for a new job. When people do not respond, or they tell you you are overqualified, and then in the next breadth underqualified… there is plenty going on that
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I coached a manager who was highly frustrated with a member of her team. They were inconsistent in their communication with her, and had a tendency to feed ‘new news’ straight to her boss. However, she thought he was very
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Why will you not get the job at your next interview? It’s crucial to ask this for four reasons: It forces you to be honest and, in doing so, identify what your real development goal is. It stretches you,
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My Facebook page is currently filled with photos of cute children, looking smart in their new ‘you will grow into it soon’ uniforms, ready to start school. This past week has felt like going back to school for me too,
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I have just read Lionel Shriver’s The Mandibles 2029-2047, about a family struggling to adapt to a catastrophic US economic meltdown in the future. It is imaginative… and pretty depressing. Hopefully none of us will face the same predicament, but
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It is the question people become stuck with; wondering if and when they should start a new career. They can become frozen, when the onus becomes on finding the “right” answer. Fear sets in, it might be the wrong move
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